[edlug] Looking for a new Distro

[Matthew Slane <m.slane@xxx.xxx.xxx>]

Hi,

I've been using Gentoo for the past few years, and as much as I like it, 
I am becoming tired of compiling everying from source.  Additionally the 
quality of the distro seems to be massively declining.  I understand 
there are efforts to rectify this, but until I get a faster machine, its 
time for a new distro.

I like minimlilst stuff, I detest redhat/mandrake etc. with a passion, 
so I'm looking for something small and sleek that I can add what I need 
and not what deadrat thinks I need.  Currently I'm looking at Vector 
(Slackware based so should be good) and Arch linux.  Only having dial-up 
I want to be careful which I go for.  Does anyone have any experience 
with these or can they recomend anything else?  (I'm going to give 
FreeBSD a try, but thats another story on ufs partition.  Is Edlug open 
to *BSD users?)

Cheers,

Matt
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