On Monday 14 March 2005 12:00, "Jay Turley" <
jay@weberrific.org> 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!"
Jay,
To make sure your laptop is compatible with *A* distro, you should download
and burn a Live CD version such as Mepis or Ubuntu and run it and see if all
your hardware will work with that particular distro. On some laptops power
settings, Wi-Fi, sound and whatnot seem to get borked but others Just Work.
To avoid problems it would be safer to try to get one that will have you up
and running in the shortest time. After you're comfortable with Linux you can
choose something different or install that distro to your Hard Drive.
HTH
--
augie
grayfox78 at cox dot net
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