NetSecurePoint wishes everyone a Happy New Year for 2012.
One of the best and easiest bare metal linux installs I have every used. http://www.turnkeylinux.org/
This website has many great fetures and project installs for popular project deployments. They have made so many projects simple as downloading an ISO image, burning it, and then installing right on a bare metal system like you would with any OS (Operating System) install.