Hey scarecrow,
I've tryed gentoo a month ago but compilling things is really slow. I then installed Arch and I can say it is really nice. Pacman is really a great tool. Also building new packages is so easy. I'm using Xfce 4.2.0 and it runs great. I just need to fix two things: acpi and cpu freq scalling, and I would love to make my computer suspend-toram/disk, but those are hard to get...
Thanx again for suggesting it!