Cool.

The laptop currently has no hard drive; so I will be installing one. 

So, pretending I'm really dumb, would I 

(a) Download it with my current windows machine, and then burn it onto
CD to load onto the laptop?
(b) Install Windows onto the laptop and then download the disto and
somehow reformat the hard drive then?

Thanks,

Jay 

> 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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