Take a peek at Gentoo Prefix. It still requires you to build from source, but it will provide you with dependency resolution. I know people who have run it in $HOME on CentOS boxes.

I use plain Debian (Lenny) on my eee 901. Most things work out-the-box and for the things that don't there is a eee Repo.

The things I needed to install from the eee Repo were the wireless drivers (rt2860) and the acpi-scripts.

I personally much prefer using a mainstream distro instead of a small(er) project that might disappear one day.

Trying to log in to facebook at the moment give me this response:

Hey, your account is temporarily unavailable due to site maintenance. It should be available again within a few hours. We apologize for the inconvenience.

In the past I have found facebook to be fairly stable, do you think that a rush of 3rd party plugins could of just been too much and brought the site down. Or is it just a strange coencidence?