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