[thelist] Which linux distribution?

[Marcus J. Coles]

Hi,

Given the growing popularity of CobaltsRaQs I would suggest for testing
RedHat

If you make your laptop dual bootable you'll need to partition your hard
drive ie wipe/screw up your current win install!

A neat alternative solution is vmware ( http://www.vmware.com ) which allows
you to run various virtual machines and would allow you to try all the
different flavours.  Allthough it runs in a window all hardware is emulated
so you can fake a full internet server on the local machine for test
applications  without needing to be a linux guru ...

on the downside it has a memory tussle with and losses every time to the
might of photoshop ...not good ... but hey its still neat ... oh and you'd
need to upgrade to Win2K

HTH

Mar


----- Original Message -----
From: "Bimal Shah" <bimal.shah at venus.co.uk>
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Cc: "andy" <andrew at venus.co.uk>; "inigo" <inigo at venus.co.uk>
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 11:55 AM
Subject: [thelist] Which linux distribution?


> 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 the very outdated setup/installation/configuration (like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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