Fedora Core 4 is my friend
The last piece of my "make sure everything is backed up" and move all my computers around to better support music project is to get a backup machine in another room of the house. I'm doing it on an old laptop with a PCMCIA Firewire Card/External hard drive, PCMCIA 802.11b, USB to USB hub with Bluetooth adapter and power to the fan cooling the laptop. Needless to say, CompUSA generic Firewire cards and Bluetooth cards didn't give me the warm fuzzies. Much to my surprise Fedora Core 4 had next to no issues with the Firewire/802.11b. This was after Debian 3.1r0a installed even better on the Firewire Drive, but crashed at boot, and never saw the wireless card. FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE didn't see any peripherals at all.
The USB Bluetooth adapter is a whole other story. This is going in so that I can surf the web around the house (and control the squeezebox2s!) with my Palm Pilot. I actually have it working right now, with range that covers the whole house with good speed. I am pleasantly surprised, even if it isn't working perfectly (requires one manual piece every time I boot, but hopefully I can fix that) after about 5 hours.
Enough geeking, I am feeling much healthier after more days of sitting on my butt not doing anything. I am looking forward to getting some exercise this weekend for the first time in two weeks. Father's Day is Sunday, don't forget to call your Dads!