Lpc2000

>> I'm also installing Mandrake 10! It seems that this is the best 
option for Linux. <<

Fedora (nee Red Hat), Mandrake (which started life as variation of Red Hat) 
and SuSE all seems pretty good at running most applications. Rowley stuff is 
wonderfully easy to install under Linux; they do an MSP430 IDE as well and 
both install in a pretty similar fashion to applications under Windows.  

>> I also was considering installing VMWare 
Workstation, but if there is an Arm Compiler for linux, it's not 
necessary. <<

I've once had a go at running a virtual machine under windows and it was 
unusably slow so I think you're right to have a go with Mandrake or something 
similar.

Good luck. :-)