[thelist] Which linux distribution?

Bimal Shah bimal.shah at venus.co.uk
Thu Jul 12 05:59:18 CDT 2001


I've used Linux in the past but have been put off by
the very outdated setup/installation/configuration (like
adding a hard drive or setting up the video card, modem etc).

I understand that things have moved on quite a abit and
would be interested to install Linux on my laptop (Pentium 2 - 200,
128mb ram) - which I wish to continue running Windows 98 aswell.

I would like to do Java, PHP, Coldfusion, MySQL development
on it and run Apache web server.

 From SuSE, RedHat and Mandrake (others?) which one would
you recommend, I want to spend more time on development
then recompiling kernals, fixing bugs, messing around with
configuration etc.

Does it really matter which distribution I go for, can any
Linux software run on any distribution?

Bimal




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