I have the latest core from github.
But where is the newest distro files at? Or is 099 the newest one still?

I would probably start here. Yukiko would know more about that than I would though. Since most people who use POL already have established shard scriptbases, there hasn't been much work on the distro end. Yukiko has done the most recent work that I know of in the last year.

thanks for replying. I did find the distro files, I went with 099, but not the alt distro like u pointed out.
Been working on it for the past couple of hours. Mostly just getting the files for linux loaded and pointed in the right direction.