> As for Linux, as mentioned already by Francisco J. A. Ares, get Knoppix.
> Get it now. Check it out!

I think that Knoppix was specifically designed to see how Linux works
on your hardware and be a demo. All without touching your current
setup.

If Knoppix works, then Linux will work on your machine.

I've tried RedHat, Fedora, and Gentoo. I'm running Gentoo on my current
robot controller (OK, it still has to be hooked into the robot, but that's
for this weekend). I haven't finished pruning, but currently the entire
system fits on 2/3 of a 1 gig compact flash card (with the exception of
the development directories; those I NFS mount).

I run RedHat on this machine and on my main Linux box at home. I'm
thinking of changing that machine to Gentoo also, but that's a project
for another time.

I think that Gentoo's main advantage is the ease of updating. YMMV.
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