I want a distro that doesn't have major bloat on the default install. JAMD was very good about this but is no more. My experiences with Suse, Redhat/Fedora, and Debian have always been lots of bloat. I'm just looking for something using the 2.6 kernel that is designed for multimedia, web browsing, and productitivity (office). Just your normal desktop. I'm seriously looking at VidaLinux since it is Gentoo based without the long ass install of Gentoo. Even though it is on the 2.4 kernel, emerge'ing to the 2.6 is fairly simple from what I understand. I don't feel like going through all of the dependency problems to get updated KDE, kernel, etc. for JAMD which is RedHat based, so I'm just looking for another distro to throw on this machine.
When I talk about bloat, I'm talking about having 6 word processors installed by default, 5 media players, and a SQL server. I think you get the point. I want a sleak, well thought out distro that works well. I would get Xandros, but I don't feel like buying it and I don't like Opera (which is installed with the free version). I don't want to have to start uninstalling crap after I'm done installing the OS.
