I'm just curious.  What is your hostility towards RH/MK/Suse?  I use them, and 
Debian and Gentoo and while I have complaints about each one, I haven't seen any 
of them make any choices to deserve such hostility.

Only Gentoo took me longer than an hour to install, but what do you expect when 
you do a Stage 1 install (build it all from source).

> Slackware and Debian would be your best bets for a LAMP system. Both can be 
> installed rather quickly and without all the additional baggage that 
> RedHat/SuSE/Mandrake/alltheothers would like to force on you.

>>What flavor of Linux is best suited to work with a LAMP web server?