Well, as you all know I'm one for simplicity and tried and tested methods... There will be 3 versions of my entry: Linux, Windows and vmdk... And thats mainly because a lot of the stuff I do for windows is a quick scan through my code and the kludgiest of fixes, so the vmdk will be the recommended method - I'm already playing with minimal installs at the moment and using ubuntu server as a base (since its the closest to JeOS I can find for ubuntu like stuff...) although I am now strongly considering a DSL setup