After several iterations, I chose Hardened Gentoo for my little server server that could. Between the compiler optimization and flexibility of the portage/emerge system, things have worked out quite well so far.
Well, I've finally returned home and started working on many of my old projects. The first will be to setup my home development environment. The plan is to use FreeBSD on a nettop.
Of course, I'll be putting a bit more time into this site as well. I plan on hosting several of my little projects here, so it should be quite interesting!