Thanks Hans for a great presentation! I arrived a little late so missed your 
descriptions of the first 50 distros. <g>

FLOPPIX http://www.floppix.com

Floppix is designed as a teaching distro. Based on Debian it loads into RAM from 
two floppies (You can download the floppy images from the site) and gives you a 
very useable command line Linux complete with multi-user support, Internet 
connection and man pages.

The website has a very good tutorial that teaches the basic commands, etc. which 
mades it ideal for classroom use.

Since Floppix loads only into RAM and does not recognise any hard drive on your 
machine, a newbie can experiment with total confidence that they won't screw up 
their system. If (or should I say when) they get totally confused, just remove the 
floppy reboot and they are back in the "lovin" arms of Bill.

Dennis Kibbe