Hey, > I am also looking for some flavour of Linux, I've kind of lost touch > with it as I have been travelling for the past few years - basically I > want to: run LAMP, play music and have the potential to watch films if I > ever fork out for a DVD player. I would also like my 'not interested in > Linux at all' partner to be able to use it so Gnome or whatever is > definitely needed. Is there a flavour of choice among the group? Would > anyone be able to make me a copy - which I would cover the costs of?
I'd highly recommend Ubuntu as well - not only is it Debian based [which means you'll be able to update your packages a little easier], its also following a 'Just works' principle with reasonably new kernel configuration, lots of autodetection during the install and the latest release of GNOME [2.8], which will be pretty good for someone who has no interest in Linux at all - just watch out for the gotchas of its philosophy [http://www.ubuntulinux.org/ubuntu/philosophy/], in that you'll have to install various browser plugins, java, DVD watching codecs and other random non-free software separately from the main distribution.. It's also a distribution that's funded by a man with more money in the bank that Red Hat ;) Glynn
