Greetings Nightflier,
In case you wonder why I am so keen on VectorLive and remastering capability, I should explain that officially portrayed 'Try Live before you install' is severe underestimating the importance of successful Live capability. The importance of Live version goes far beyond 'trying', which is not that important use. The importance is capability of using Live for regular 'production' use, if Live version is good enough for this purpose. The primary reason is that unlike the installed version, the LiveCD is completely immune from so called 'System Rot', which is gradual deterioration of the traditional installation in result of installs, uninstalls, inadvertant detrimental changes etc, not speaking of any possibility of viruses and other malware, unwanted cookies -spyware and other infestation in the background, without the user's knowledge. Avoiding/preventing this completely from happening in traditional installation is very difficult...
Live version on the other hand is immune to system rot. If any infestation happens it is only for the session. Rebooting brings the system to the original, clean, pristine shape.
Having tested capabilities of various Linux LiveCDs, such as Zenwalk, Wolvix, Austrumi, SliTaz, TinyCore, Xubuntu, Salix, etc. at this point I see Vector as the best capable ready-to-go distro. TinyCore and SliTaz are smaller and faster (They run in memory) but they require some work on the user's part to have it ready-to-go...
Salix has all pieces and good re-mastering but Live hardly works in 256M, while Vector does with no problem in my testing.
Re-mastering capability of live system (preserving desktop customizations, cookies, etc.), which is key, appears to be rather simple in Vector comparing to Salix and Zenwalk 5.2, but does its job. None other can do it right...
In a word, Vector is being greatly underestimated and the value of VectorLive tremendously downplayed. In reality it is great asset to Vector Linux.