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On Sun, 2005-01-09 at 13:28 -0800, Tom Jennings wrote: Yeah, the trash can. :P Definately (spuhlyng?) true. But GPL apps *are* catching up - just look at OpenOffice 2 betas... They're progressing very very fast :) I do not want to start a distro war. But I like the two deb-based distros Ubuntu and, well, Debian :) Kickass package management, you start with a base system and install what you need. (apt-get install x-window-system build-essential gnome openoffice-org gives you a good system) Ubuntu fits an entire desktop system, with automatic updates, on *one CD*. And GNOME runs *fast* nowadays. (though, not quite fast enough for me - a lot of my hardware is ontopic here. I run Fluxbox, you should give it a spin.) Well, you *are* a geek, remember... You don't need a big DE, newbies do. My 73-year-old grandmother is very happy with GNOME. Most of what KDE loads probably stands in swap anyways. Still quite big. Ditto with Debian, though I think the floppy count is higher. But if you've got a server running Linux nearby, netboot! One floppy, and you have the full, semi-graphical installer. (The Debian installer is no longer as horrid as the myth that surrounds it. Yes, at one point, it truly was horrid.) As if I intended to just stop? :) Absolutely. That's why I stay clear of them. But the one userfriendly distro I recommend and endorse is Ubuntu, a newcomer, but wow... It's beautiful both technically and visually. I suggest you give it a spoon. -- Tore S Bekkedal <toresbe(a)ifi.uio.no> The light at the end of the tunnel is Cherenkov Radiation