Hello from a new member, and some questions

[Lee Maschmeyer]

To keep search engines happy, I think the spelling is yasr instead of yascr 
isn't it?

I'm surprised nobody's mentioned knoppix. Isn't it a viable candidate?

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Lee Maschmeyer
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