well after taking into account all of this posts feed back, i have redhat and slack (a co worker donated his version of red to me) so i guess this means ill start off with redhat . thx for all the input guys it was a real up,up,down,down,left,right,left,right A,B,A,B, start saver

oh one more thing, is fluxbox for redhat because i only saw debain and slack packages for dl'ing.