I’ve released a couple of alpha versions of an Arch Live CD I was working on, have had other versions pretty much all set up, but always kept them to myself because I didn’t want/didn’t have time to bother with troubleshooting the users’ problems, exotic hardware issues and other things of the like.

Plus, the WM I chose (Awesome) would be somewhat tricky to adopt and I could almost sense the kind of feedback I would have from the less informed crowd eager to try something new without bothering too much to document themselves first.

Yep, not very Ubuntu-human as well.

Even so, I’ve laid it out as promise to you and a few other people once and I intend to keep that promise. I’ll eventually release it, and probably garner help from a few interested people (hint, hint) to work from there on.

There are a few terrific options out there right now, so finding a good niche to “explore” isn’t easy. An Awesome + Arch Live CD fits somewhere, as there aren’t many of those around, though. So I think it’ll be a good bet, especially if people understand or bother to understand what it’s all about. I’ve had feedback and suggestions relating to those two alpha versions that totally missed the point: I wasn’t trying to create an all-encompassing LiveCD with a set features belonging to Ubuntu’s realm not to a specific config of a distro in LiveCD shape.

Thanks for a sane blagpost about Exherbo – those are pretty rare

You are somewhat correct when you state that we don’t want to support it — but only somewhat.
More specifically, once Exherbo reach a state where it’s actually possible to offer a certain degree of support, we will definitely do that. The same goes for listening to suggestions, critique and improvements from other people. But at the moment we’re still laying down the foundation for our house so discussions about the colour of the walls would be fruitless since we might just as well end up with a greenhouse.
The time where we have something to offer people and where (some) people have something to offer us will definitely come… later.

Once again, thank you for thinking before you write.