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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
