Best way to install cutting edge GnuStep distribution

[Dr Slivnik Tomaž MA (Cantab) PhD (Cantab) FTICA]

What is the best/quickest/easiest/smoothest way to get a cutting edge  
GnuStep distribution running on my machine?

I have Debian 5.0.3 running in a virtual machine with all the GnuStep  
packages installed but they seem rather old. Does it matter if I  
manually build my own GnuStep installation on top of this? I'm  
guessing doing so will interfere with the Debian package management  
system and break things down the line.

Are there more current pre-built packages for another platform I can  
easily install in a VM?

Does GnuStep run on MINIX (or, as I am guessing, there is the same  
issue of no support for threads and shared memory which break Gnome  
and KDE running there)?

Tomaž