Oh well, I think I'll go to the shops later on this week

Nah. Check out http://www.lsl.com/ -- they do an 11 CD set with 4 of the major distros on. You can just try them all. It only costs $18.

Admittedly, you don't get manuals with that, but you do get a whole heap of HOWTOs and stuff, all of which are available on the net -- try http://www.linuxdoc.org/


Roger - not necessarily speaking for empeg