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I would like to install a Linux Distro on a HP thin client t5700 – it must have a GUI and not webmin. It does not need a graphical installer or LiveCD. I would like to stay away from BSD. It will be used as a torrent and ed2k mule as well as an SMB server.

THe t5700 has an x86 CPU (not Intel but runs x86 code) that runs @ 1Ghz. It is probably equivalent to a P3 500-600Mhz.
It also has 512MB RAM, a 60GB IDE laptop HDD, alsa supported sound, 4 bootable USB 1.1, 100Mbps ethernet and one PCI 33Mhz slot.

The OS will boot of the internal IDE channel drive and not the USB drives.

I have another one with identical config with Windows XP Pro installed and it runs just great as a P2P mule and does not crash, so it is pretty capable as a basic server but not as a workstation.

I ran the distro chooser test

http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/

It recommended OpenSUSE and Fedora first. Then Ubuntu, Madriva and Debian. I prefer Debian based distros with the GNOME desktop.
Do the new Ubuntu Distros natively support writing to NTFS drives or do I need a 3rd party app like FUSE. I don’t mind an old 2.4 kernel, but the newest kernel had all drivers included when I tried Xubuntu 8.10.

I’d just like to know everyone else’s $0.02