if you get the google SDK you get an emulator that runs little phone VM's without the calling ability for app development ect.
and i have always been a huge VM proponent. but in this case its a secondary workstation/laptop that i will be installing on. On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Eric Shubert <[email protected]> wrote: > I concur with JD. CentOS for servers, Ubuntu for workstations. > > If you haven't jumped into virtualization yet, I would certainly do so. It > will make your dist-hopping experience much more pleasurable. VMware and > Virtualbox are good places to start. Keep an eye on KVM as well. > > Andriod is certainly interesting. Don't know if you consider that a distro > or not, but it does run a linux kernel. > > Which makes me wonder. Can I run Andriod in a VM? (w/out phone > functionality) > > See http://distrowatch.com for distro ideas. Sabayon looks interesting. > > -- > -Eric 'shubes' > > On 01/07/2011 09:22 AM, JD Austin wrote: >> >> I stick with the ones that will keep me sharp for work: >> Fedora/Mandrake/Centos = redhat >> or Suse (many more use rh based) >> >> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 09:17, Stephen <[email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: >> >> Well all I'm getting weirdly antsy in my preferred distro again... not >> that i dislike using Ubuntu, but that I am looking for that next bit >> of innovation that makes a distro. >> >> i liked Vinux when i looked at it this week, but I'm not really in the >> market/need for a visually impaired setup but glad to have been >> introduced to it. >> >> I am anxious to learn what others use here and what that "killer >> feature" is that drew you to a given distribution. and/or something >> really innovative that really defined a need for a new distribution. >> >> For example gentoo is defined by its emerge/portage (to me) and the >> dynamic flexibility that represents to me. >> Debian for its rock solid reliability, and conversely Ubuntu being a >> graceful extension of that. >> >> >> >> -- >> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from >> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. >> >> Stephen >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] >> <mailto:[email protected]> >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - [email protected] To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
