As somebody who's used Linux for over a decade, at home and at work, I second pretty much everything Pat and Erland wrote. Pat's beer rule is absolutely right. If none of your friends are good with Linux, you might look for a local Linux User's Group, and see what its users tend to use.
I'd cautiously recommend Ubuntu. It's run very well on a few systems for me, but lately I got burned by it (sorta). I upgraded my Slimserver system (more RAM, bigger disks, but everything else the same) and moved from an old Fedora Core release to the latest Ubuntu. Darn system started crashing for no apparent reason. Turned out I needed to change some kernel boot arguments to keep the system stable with Ubuntu. Sound like a pain? That's why you should follow Pat's beer rule. -Peter -- peterw http://www.tux.org/~peterw/ free plugins: http://www.tux.org/~peterw/#slim AllQuiet BlankSaver BottleRocket FuzzyTime SaverSwitcher SleepFade StatusFirst VolumeLock ------------------------------------------------------------------------ peterw's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=2107 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=38519 _______________________________________________ unix mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/lists/listinfo/unix
