Tim,
Thanks for the kind reply. Yes, there are some things that need to be "considered" about Ubuntu. I'm currently running the new breezy on the desktop, to follow what's happening on the development tree. In the last couple of days, I've been trying Fedora Core4, test 3, but it give me a few difficulties on my laptop.
I'm planning on trying PC-BSD tomorrow or over the weekend. I've never tried BSD before, but from the looks of it on DistroWatch, it looks like it has an installer, of all things, which, I understand is new to BSD. The upgrade was just posted tonight and it uses FreeBSD 5.4.
But when it comes to bullet-proof, fool-proof (even fools like me) installations, I really like Scientific Linux (formerly Fermi Linux) and it's amazing the oversight the distro gets. The SuSE salesman was nonplussed when he saw hundreds and hundreds of machines at Fermi (over a thousand x64s at CERN) using a free version of RHEL4 that's been tweaked and is running on servers and desktops. I'm only a user, but it makes a really nice desktop flavor. For now.
I guess I'm too new at this (only six years) not go to for a bulkier GUI than fluxbox, but it's neat and I've been thinking of using it more.
Anyhow, thanks for the kind words. Like I said, it's a real good feeling to know you folks are there.
William Roddy Quincy CA [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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