I have used a lot of different distros over the last several years.  Suse, 
Mandrake, Red Hat, and Fedora 1,2 & 3.  But the one I'm using right now, 
Xandros, is about the best one I have tried.  

The free version of Xandros 3 can be downloaded by BitTorrent or you can go to 
Fry's and spend about $60 to get the version that will run Windows Office 
products.  It has very smooth hardware detection, and a very solid file 
manager/GUI.  It comes out of the box with the java and media plug-ins 
installed in Mozilla.

It does come with an older Evolution mail client.  But I was able to install 
the KDE outlook clone and I have been happier with it than I was with 
Eviolution 2 anyway.

Devin

On 03/14/2005 11:40 am, Jay Turley wrote:
> Hi!
>
> I'm about to come into possession of a decent notebook that I would like
> to turn into a linux box for use as a portable web development machine.
>
> I'd like to get the LAMP stuff on there, as well as Ruby on Rails, along
> with some other nice tools.
>
> But that isn't the problem. The problem is that while I have used
> Solaris and Unix back in the day, I have never used Linux and have no
> idea what would be a good distribution to get to put on this machine.
>
> I would love to hear some recommendations and ideas. Thanks for all your
> help.
>
>
> Jay Turley
> jay@weberrific.org
> "Have you heard about the new corduroy pillows? They're making
> headlines!"
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