Darren Sessions writes:
Juha has a point about Debian, although Ubuntu i386 is a breeze as well (easier than even Debian I thought and Ubuntu seems to have newer stable packages all the way around).
ubuntu works too. regarding newer packages, i have to disagree. i recently tried to build twinkle on ubuntu hardy with zrtp support and i had to port many newer packages from lenny to hardy in order to get it done.
-- juha