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My inclination was to start with Debian and this confirms it.
A shame about Fedora as I thought they had optimised the driver for the broadcom graphics component . . .
10 seconds is a good boot time - well done to Arch.
Starting with stability is a good approach to bootstrap from. Debian will include a C compiler . . . and away we go.