microlinux-desktop which is an XFCE4 based 'remix' on top of slackware 14.1.
Remixes use the base distro's repositories but then add extra bits. Other examples would be stella linux based on CentOS and Korora Project linux based on Fedora. One major addition is all the multimedia codecs. A fresh install of any of these three systems can play DVDs, most forms of video file, and music out of the box. You don't need remixes on Debian so much because of the way you can build your system from base upwards, and you can choose to enable the non-free repos or not.
The microlinux-desktop is a one man operation from the South of France. Mr Novak is providing multimedia packages (saves a lot of compiling) and Libreoffice as well as Xfce version 4.12 and a sensible set of xfce4 settings. I've changed the theme considerably from the default theming that microlinux is supplied with. You may recognise the direction of travel
The result seems stable and quite responsive on a Thinkpad X61 with 512Mb of ram and one of the two cores switched off. It flies on a Thinkpad X200 used as Lenovo intended. I especially like the way microlinux-desktop comes with a carefully thought out repository configuration that allows the use of standard slackware package tools for updating. The author runs his own IT support business and he really wants the upgrade process to 'just work' as it means less calls from clients!
Slackware stays close to upstream so you get a pretty stock Xfce4 4.12 experience - looks like any other Xfce4 4.10 or 4.12 once you add the whisker-menu.
Installing Slackware from the DVD with an encrypted LVM for root and a small boot partition takes about an hour - just follow the guides on the DVD to set up LVM and then make a generic kernel with an initrd. Then adding in Microlinux takes some editing of 'tag files', cloning a git repository and downloading about 400Mb from the microlinux repository. Total 2 hours or so but the result is something you can set and forget.
A bit like Debian stable really.
By the way, it doesn't seem like Debian is a distant, faint memory for you. Because then you wouldn't be here. Furhermore, PID 1 will change in PCLOS also. Just a matter of time 
) written by a corporation. He'll be one of the last hold-outs, kicking and screaming all the way to the systemd grave, lol. 
