Towards the last VL releases, VL was probably less like slackware and more like LFS... I'd be interested to know if it's worth attempting to rebuild the thing. Unfortunately, most everyone is gone and I dont think I have a good idea what it should look like these days. I've always been a command-line guy, so graphical desktops dont do much for me (except for wm's like awesome, ratpoison, [open/flux]box, jwm, etc)