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.)
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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
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