Awhich distro?

[Jude DaShiell]

What's the available space for Linux?  Anything over 3GB can handle 
slackware nicely less than that and zipspeak an earlier text-only clone of 
slackware is a good choice.  Please give up on ftp!  It's a security hole. 
Better you should learn to set up ssh and then use sftp which is part of 
ssh and ssh itself to do telnet type connections.  If you want to go for 
eye candy applications later Fedora would be a good choice with more disk 
space.  ubuntu if you can get sighted assistance or live with frustration 
getting it installed might be a good way to go but because it like fedora 
is high on eye candy disk space will be needed.  The rest of the debian 
line practices more of a minimalist approach Debian itself more so than 
Ubuntu, gentoo more so than Debian, and grml between them because grml is 
a security hardened version of debian and has the necessary packages for 
that installed on the hard drive.  For future consideration; last I heard 
debian was the leader in packages available to do things after system 
installation (deepest extras library); followed by Fedora, with Slackware 
coming up with smallest extras library.  hth.