I'm currently using gentoo on my desktop and laptop...
But archlinux sounds tempting and peanut is released.
Peanut is based on slackware 5 and claims it can install slackware 10 packages...and it's livecd...reallly tempting...
But the thing is peanut livecd requires password and no one know it but the author of the distribution....
Vectorlinux is nice also. But i don't really like slackware packages...unless I use swaret, I have to rely on google.com to resolve dependencies... 

so, I want to keep gentoo now for my desktop.

         but for the laptop, I'll maybe try arch or peanut.

                      I think peanut is good for live recovery cd....

         I might install ubuntu on laptop...

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