Thanks Bob.
> VMware needs RAM more than it needs CPU power, I > thought. You're definitely right, I guess I should have said resource intensive. > OTOH, if you want to abandon all semblance of a > normal life and devote > each of your remaining hours on this mortal plane to > Linux > maintenance, customization, and tweaking, go with > Gentoo. (-: That's > what I've done, and I don't regret it a bit. Is gentoo that bad? I don't mind putting in a bit of work, but since it is a work laptop, I mostly want to get going with a fairly small amount of downtime. > But Gentoo does keep > you on the cutting > edge. I didn't have to go outside of Gentoo to get > APM, DVD ripping, > DVD playback (and lots of other video formats), 3D > acceleration, > and lots of other cool stuff (like a bunch of games > I never play (-: ). Mostly will just need CD writing, wifi, USB, nothing too complicated. > I'm assuming you know your way around Linux enough > that you're not > intimidated by things like fdisk, editing > /etc/fstab, or building a > kernel. If that weren't the case, we'd be > discussing Mandrake and > Fedora. Yeah, I usually rebuild the kernel as a first step. That way if I foobar anything, it's an easy rebuild w/o too much hoohah. Of course, my current laptop is a 2.2 kernel, so I am excited to get to 2.4, to say nothing about 2.6. Old school baby. I was leaning toward debian and will probably give that a shot, tho I am interested in Gentoo. I may save this until I eventually by a new desktop for personal use. Jason __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Protect your identity with Yahoo! Mail AddressGuard http://antispam.yahoo.com/whatsnewfree _______________________________________________ EuG-LUG mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mailman.efn.org/cgi-bin/listinfo/eug-lug
