Very Specific Requirements..... Must boot quickly -- Ability to turn off hardware autodetection easily highly desirable. Must be fairly straight forwards to customise X to run a single app rather than a window manager. Prefer a realtime kernel out of the box. Must have working firewire by default. Must be relatively straight forwards to build software on or for and package it. Basically I am looking to set up a single app box to be used in live performance. If something goes wrong I want to be able to hit the reset button and have a working system again in the minimum with no human interaction other than the grub loading screen. Any suggestions Danni