Personally, I'd go with Debian (and do, on my home & work machines...) The install is not as 'pointy-clicky' as RH or Mandrake - but you can build a _SOLID_ machine and disk space requirements are very liberal - as little as 20 or 30 megs, I believe. > In my day job I set up application servers for any new clients we get, and > our experience with redhat 7.0, 7.1, and 7.2 is that they all have bugs, > some of them serious (pppd, samba printing). Redhat 6 seems to be > bug-free. > FWIW, I've had issues with ALL versions of RH going back to pre 5.2 - I avoid it like the plague. RH is famous for broken libraries and shipping 'bleeding edge' tech that doesn't quite work. (The 6.0 to 6.1 (6.1 to 6.2?) upgrade broke XF86 Mach64 drivers and left me a warehouse full of useless laptops :-P) Most of my RH friends seem to be migrating to Mandrake these days - but I haven't tried that ... I've heard good things about (old) SuSE and recently Connectiva. There are also some 'mini' linux distro's that might be suitable to a wearable - but they aren't really newbie fare. You might wanna just get someone to install _any_ version for you (installfests are good for this...) and let you play with it for a few days. Once your comfortable with Linux, you can decide which one you want to run 'fulltime'... -- Subscription/unsubscription/info requests: send e-mail with subject of "subscribe", "unsubscribe", or "info" toWear-Hard Mailing List Archive (searchable): http://wearables.blu.org please, Please, *PLEASE* don't subscribe through a forward/false domain
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