Which linux flavour

Thanks everyone for your input.
I took the recommendation of Ubuntu - initially tried 8.10 but ended up going with 8.04 as it was more compatible with Oracle client software I need.

So far its just running on a spare PC I had (haven't done my notebook yet), but have WinXP running nicely in Virtualbox, Oracle client and development software installed, and no show stoppers as yet.

As many of you said - plenty of support on the web for most things.
Would be nice if you could get a VNCServer that would allow access to the console display before login but I think I understand why thats not as simple as in Windoze.

Anyway - still a work in progress but going OK so far.

Steve

One thing you can do with 8.04 is to point the updates to a later version so that you'll get the latest updates but still have the 8.04 which you've found works better for you.

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Originally Posted by Disco Keith

One thing you can do with 8.04 is to point the updates to a later version so that you'll get the latest updates but still have the 8.04 which you've found works better for you.

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8.04 is a LTS (Long term support) distribution - it will continue to get updates until 2011 without upgrading. Generally these updates will include all security and bug fixes, backported as necessary, but not necessarily new package versions.

John

I'm a Ubuntu user. I stick with 8.04 and didn't bother upgrading to 8.10.
I use to use Fedora 8 but found it to be too buggy and not have near as much support.

I work in the IT game and do networking and server solutions. For a graphical type desktop I would go down the Ubuntu track. Whack WINE on it and you can do anything your Windows box can do. I think Ubuntu would be the pick of the bunch at the moment in terms of desktop computing with linux, or you could run OS X like on a toshiba Net PC I saw. :eek:

For linux on the server side (I do a bit with Asterisk) I use CentOS as I find its redhat compatibility quite good. Fedora drives me nuts.

BSD is also handy for server boxes for "tried and tested" applications like Apache,etc.

Go the Ubuntu.

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Originally Posted by dickyjoe

Whack WINE on it and you can do anything your Windows box can do.

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But how do you get quickbooks to run on a ubuntu machine??

*shudders at the thought of WINE*

I know it's all we've got, but damn it's rough to use sometimes.

According to WineHQ it appears to install correctly under WINE. It may be worthwhile to give it a shot on your machine.

What about trying VirtualBox?

VirtualBox