Calab, I would like to comment on that I have been fussing around with gentoo for quite some time now. What WM do you use? I will currently just be using it on AMD Sempron with 512MB RAM. I really dont have heavy iron but not really heavy iron is needed for this application just for development and hosting on the same box. I am going to check out using Gentoo. What editor on gentoo do you use for development. Also do you use lighttpd with fcgi?