well... I been around the Linux world and am now to the point that I no longer really qualify as a noob... however; I now find myself in unfamiliar territory.

I can't find a distribution!!!

I love Debian for it's simplicity and stability... but I hate how far behind it is and how I cant really install programs I like.

Ubuntu has nearly all the functionality I want... but I HATE UBUNTU!!! (don't ask. you won't like the answer.)

Linux Mint is nice (NOT being Ubuntu and all)... but the developers are like-minded to spy ware makers. (use the Google search in Firefox... then try to fix it!)

OpenSuSE is so close it's rediculous... but I have issues with pulseaudio and a2dp...

Fedora... yeah... I liked fedora... but now they have been tainted by Microsoft.

So, yeah... I guess it's time to make my own linux.

I would like to take the debian source and build my own OS (much like arch and ubuntu did) but I wish to make it my own... I have no clue how to do this... nor how to start.

I basically want Debian, with pulseaudio integration (Like OpenSuSE), Blueman as my bluetooth manager, and Desktop Effects integration and functionality (Like Mint).

I figure, it would probably be easiest to install debian and make my changes to the OS... but I also think it may be more stable to just build it from source...

Are there any guides for this kind of project?

Have you tried running Debian testing or unstable? Most of the apps in sid are newer than what Ubuntu has.

no... no I haven't.

ok, then. Perhapse I WON'T have to build a new OS.

You are never a noob in the linux world, noob is a modern term of looser in the world of online gaming. Id rather say your a newbe or perhaps a inexperienced user.
But to answer your question.

In debian you dont have to be locked to the repository, I never use it on my lab PPC server, it clutters up my harddrive with crap and the updates "own" my configfiles sometimes. But if you run debian you can allways try bleeding edge new releases of applications with cvs and then compile them yourself.

I know the feeling of not liking ubuntu/mint/fedora/debian and such, I run mint/ubuntu on my laptop for easy day to day work and EVERYthing actualy works. Still the two programs I use is terminal and Opera =)

But if you want to be able to run a clean system with you having most or all of the controll of your linux you should realy try archlinux or slackware. I run slack on most my servers at home and arch on my workstation and its so smooth, just not on laptops (takes alot of work to get it to work and its more stress then i need)

Else there is Linux from scrach (LFS) and rock linux I think it is who is a build it your self kind of distro, if you run LFS atleast, I recomend not using the buildin pack distrubition but rather get the lastest stable version of all buildutils and the kernel.

But id recomend arch for a workstation and slack for server for you then.

Oh, allmost forgot, arch isnt built on debian, it's its own distro =)

And elive compiz is allso recomended if you want a fast blingbling stystem with a debian base.