My saga with Tiny Core continues...
Suprise of suprises, I have wireless working on both of my laptops. I have 1280x800 res working on both laptops. I have sound (via ALSA) working flawlessly on one laptop, and working sort of acceptably on the other - No speakers, only headphones. Flash was painless to install. I haven't even looked at java, though that is on my todo list. I would like to be able to play with Scala and TinyCore is looking like it might replace Mint. My OS is still under 100MB, but things like Flash, Alsa, and the full Xorg (Xvesa didn't give me full resolution - plus the mouse seems to respond a little better in proper Xorg than Xvesa) have blown the initial 25MB OS out the window.
I've packaged up two python modules as tcz extensions - Django and Django-tagging, and I must say, I am surprised by how easy it is to create your own extensions. Granted, something that has config files or needs to be compiled in a special way might get a little more interesting.
The original window manager is more than a little ugly. Switched to Openbox, grabbed tint2 and conky. And I think I much prefer not having compiz around. It's fancy, yes, but I hardly ever did anything that let Compiz's fanciness shine anyway.
And it's still bloody fast. 30 second boot, desktop loads up instantly... I'm fairly impressed.