I have to agree with Xandros for a laptop.... I personally used it with my Toshiba. :) It is Debian based and very user friendly. I am currently though running Fedora Core 3 on my laptop and Core 2 on my servers, having become a big fan of Fedora and the great resources available to it via apt4rpm. (The debian package manager ported to RPM distros.) *Brian Tafoya* briantafoya.com /"Taking over the planet one open source script at a time!"/ Get Thunderbird! Devin Rankin wrote: >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!" >>--------------------------------------------------- >>PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: >>http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> >--------------------------------------------------- >PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: >http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > >