[Coco] Recommendations & Assistance

[Ed Orbea]

My Wndows XP system suffered the blue-screen-o-death.

I used it for a DW3 / DW4 Server
I used VCC and the Winimage tool to create .dsk files that we ultimately 
used on a real CoCo3
In your opinions, do I (a) re-install WIndows XP (b) an older version of 
Windows (i.e. 98) or (c) switch or a Linux distro?
If I switch to Linux, what is the consensus regarding the distro 
(ubuntu, mint, suse, etc.)?

Also, I just got my SuperIDE drive from Mark and want to backup the CF 
card before I do anything. For those of you using OS X Lion or Mtn Lion, 
what aregument to the 'dd' command are needed (like blocksize, byte 
switching, skipping, etc.)?

Thanks