I concur.
I also strongly recommend running additional hosts as virtual machines
(either with VirtualBox or VMware Player/Workstation) instead of dual
booting. VMs are much nicer to use.
--
-Eric 'shubes'
Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> I agree - The SuSE, RedHat (Fedora), and Debian (Ubuntu) branches are
> quite different but all very good. See which one you like best.
> Personally I loved SuSE at first but could not spend the time to learn
> it as well as Fedora or Ubuntu. And, well, Ubuntu just amazes me at
> how simple it can be for simple things, like printing, so it get heavy
> props.
> For servers I am almost pure RedHat (Cent OS to be specific) for
> desktops I have one Ubuntu and one Fedora on my desk. I use them both
> equally.
>
> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:24 PM, Mark Phillips
> <mark@phillipsmarketing.biz> wrote:
>> I am partial to Debian. I have it running on a a 64bit Dell laptop for about
>> 6 months with no problems. I also run Windows 7 Pro as a virtual machine.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 9:58 PM, mike Enriquez <mylinux@cox.net> wrote:
>>> I am planning to build a dual boot workstation. It will a 64bit computer
>>> with Windows 7 pro but I have yet to select a linux distro.
>>> I am open to any suggestions. Which linux distro would you use. My only
>>> requirement is that it further my linux education.
>>> I am willing to try any Linux Distro in workstation or server version.
>>>
>>> Also what would you put into your 64 bit computer? I am planning to use an
>>> i7 extreme processor on an MSI X58 pro-E motherboard. Ram is going to be
>>> DDR3 1600 MHz.
>>>
>>> I am open to any ideas. Please send me your ideas.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Mike Enriquez
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