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I tend to do a debian debootstrap install. Slap on the build essential and make stuffs and start compiling away. It's what I do, since I'm compiling stuff like cwm, povray, and xterm (on arm) anyway. I can't seem to tell xterm to use a less annoying font on my raspberry pi if I don't roll my own xterm. Although with kernels newer than 3.4.x I don't "need" fglrx on my desktop, as my ATI card falls into the legacy category and is well supported in terms of 3D with the radeon drivers on any flavour of debian > wheezy. And NOT supported in terms of fglrx for kernels > 3.4.x. Of course all of this fails at least two of your reqs, debian based, and not that much of a challenge.
I finally managed to install gentoo into a virtualbox, first time failed, second time went excellent, I still have 1 question remaining, since gentoo is a rolling release, how often does something break (with break I mean, a system that cannot start a graphical environment or worse)? I would like to know before I try to install on my main system, because I don't mind fixing stuff once every 2 months or so, but I don't have time to fix stuff every 2 days.
If you keep the stable Gentoo branch (read: you don't have something like ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~amd64" in your make.conf) Gentoo is pretty stable (sometimes even a bit dated). Before the developers mark an ebuild for the stable branch it is pretty well tested in in the ~arch branches.
Of course it is possible, due to Gentoo's nature that your system is likely pretty unique, that you run into an issue that was not seen by anyone before, but I haven't had such a problem for now. Even in the ~arch branches problem are usually fixed fast, Gentoo users tend to be fast with bug reports and Gentoo developers usually come up fast with patches.
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