I think I'm gonna go over to the East Side meeting tomorrow, which gives me an opportunity to bum for discs.  :D

 

The thing is, it's been several years since I shopped around on distributions.

 

I used to like Slackware, but I notice there's no official x86-64 version (there IS slamd64 though).

 

I'm hesitant on Gentoo, anything Debian-derived, or most BSDs (although I LIKE the retro feel many BSDs offer) because they seem very reliant about sucking packages down the network.  When a 120Mb package takes 12 hours of nursing the connection, you can see why I'm hesitant.  I want lots of packages on the discs, and reasonably current ones.

 

Other major dislikes:  SysV init scripts.  Graphical boot.

 

Should I just go for slamd64, or does anyone else do a disc-oriented distribution without all the pretty shinies?