OpenSuse 12.1 and Tumbleweed vs ArchLinux, part 1

Today I will compare side by side two of my favorite distros : ArchLinux (current) and openSuse 12.1. Both of them are fast and have quite recent software packages. There are many differences, though. Read them all

Feature	ArchLinux	openSuse
Linux Kernel	3.2.1	3.1 (3.2.1 available as update in Tumbleweed)
Boot speed (Compaq 610)	very fast, under 20s to KDM	comparable fast, about 20s
Package manager	Pacman there are several GUI haven't tested yet	zypper, rpm, there is YAST GUI, not so nice, though
Repositories	Central repos + AUR all in one place	Central repos + various OBS There is also a Packman repo, containing most closed source packages, also Tumbleweed and more. All in all, very bad design; There is web interface to OBS, which helps at some point;
If a package does not exists in repo?	You can create user package very easily and build it yourself via mapkepkg command	There is OBS, and as I said, with web interface, OBS has very often downtimes and failures, though. Despite this, OBS is great, you can build a package (like kernel)very quickly in the cloud saving your own machine
Configuration, Settngs utility	Mostly none, all is done by hand in various config files	YAST - for most of people (including my boss :) it is perfect configuration tool I dont like the way it looks, openSuse devs could make it better