May be the list should be cut down to the following as do we really want to install any thing else for new people to Linux? Debian is my distro of choice but I would never set it up for a newbie, unless I was prepared to hand hold them for the next few months.
Redhat Mandrake Suse Smoothwall/IPCop > do you want to really do gentoo if we have limited outside download > resources? It has to download all the sources then compile them. It > takes a lot of time (X alone is something like 50-60 MB). There is also > nothing "automatic" about it, quite tricky, it will take a > disproportionate amount of the volunteers time to supervise it, and take > up space another installer could be using.
