From: Samantha Date: 2007-02-07T01:15:13+09:00 Subject: Re: Linux OS ------=_Part_8696_29134038.1170778509461 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline On 2/6/07, Luke Ivers wrote: > > I'm building a Linux VM inside of my Windows box so I can experiment with > setting up different ruby/rails situations, configuring apache, trying out > nginx, etc. > > I know this is usually a heated debate, but does anyone have any good > suggestions on which release of Linux I should be using? > > I've used Ubuntu before, but just as a desktop, not in a server-type > environment. > > Other than that, I really don't have much experience with any Linux > flavors. > > Thanks. > When I first started out, I got my feet wet on RedHat (back when it was open source, now it would be Fedora). The gui installers have gotten a lot better with time. Actually, now that I give it some more thought, another good distro that doesn't take up a whole lot of memory or space is Zenwalk Linux. It's a Slackware based distribution that has a lot of dev tools prepackaged. I have a second machine that's a P3 500Mhz w/ 768MB of RAM and I've got Zenwalk installed on it. It runs really nice and is a good sandbox environment. Another place you can also check out is DistroWatch. http://distrowatch.com- it shows each distro and what the popularity of said distro is. After you get more comfortable in Linux and around the command line, if you want to learn a lot more, I strongly suggest going either to Slackware or Gentoo. I've not personally used Slackware, but it's a real good distro from what I understand. I use Gentoo, which has taught me more about Linux in the six months I've been using it, than I had learned in the several years of using Linux on other distros. Good luck. I <3 Linux. -- Samantha http://www.babygeek.org/ "Beware when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk." --Ralph Waldo Emerson ------=_Part_8696_29134038.1170778509461--