I just finished compiling and packaging C::B on tinycore linux (
http://tinycorelinux.com/). Tinycore is the 11Mb distro that starts from a pristine state each boot, loading itself and all packages+persistent data into ram. The perfect distro for preventing cruft buildup. Comes pre-built with lightweight FLTK & JWM (with usual option to add other toolkits and WMs) and is lightning quick. I digress...
Compiling and packaging was a little more difficult than expected (few bugs including rtti off by default) but I'm very happy with the outcome. I'm running tinycore on my eee pc. On the ubuntu based distro I've been using, C::B has been pretty sluggish: Takes around 30 sec to load, editing is sluggish and something as trivial as popping up the find dialog has noticeable lag. With tinycore, most of the lag is gone. Startup is on par with XP, editing snappy (prob not quite as good as on desktop xp) and dialog lag gone.
I'll probably submit the packages over there in the next few days. Definitely worth a look...