>>Hmmm... I'm not an expert in this subject but isn't Ubuntu based on Debian? <<
I'm no expert either. I've played with Ubuntu and Debian, and Debian seemed infinitely more stable, and also, for me, Debian installed more easily. Since it's a python board I'm most interested in the python implications. I thought you could use, say, a stable Debian distribution, and still download the newest version of Python to run on it. Is that not so? bs -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list