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What Linux distros work?

I'm in the Data Acquisition subgroup of Project Phoenix, an IEEE study group working on an open source blood pressure monitor.  Our laptop has only a 500 MHz  processor and 256 MB of RAM.  We need to program microcontrollers and work with National Instruments data acquisition probes.

 

I looked at the Linux FAQ, and National Instruments specified support for Red Hat Enterprise, OpenSUSE, and Mandriva.   I have experience with Damn Small Linux, Puppy Linux, and Ubuntu.  However, I stopped using Damn Small Linux because there were certain things I could never get working.  Puppy Linux is lightweight and easy to use but has a weak repository.  (I know that the latest version is supposed to support the Debian/Ubuntu repository with the Woof feature, but I wasn't able to get that working, and it took a long time to install Woof.)  Ubuntu has a superior repository but no support for National Instruments applications.

 

So what distros would be suitable?  I'm leaning towards Mandriva and OpenSUSE due to their NI support, but I'm having difficulty seeing if they offer the software I need in their repositories.  Are there other distros I should consider?

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