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For a basic desktop machine (ie word processing, web surfing, etc.) I always recommend JAMD. It has a four click install and they have stripped out things like sendmail that is useless on a regular desktop machine. It boots into the GUI and has everything a desktop machine needs. For system diagnostics and repair, I like LNX-BBC. It's small, only 48 MB iso. It boots from CD and mounts all filesystems detectable. It also configures X for you automatically (however, there is no KDE or GNOME due to size). It is designed to fit on a Business Card CDR so it can be carried in a wallet for those that do lots of computer repair. It's very fast. For a workstation that is mainly used as a desktop machine, I recommend Mandrake. This is really for those that are just getting into Linux but still want all of the server capabilities to play around with. It's built on RedHat. If installed with only what you need and will use, then it can be fast or at least decent. If you go with a full install of everything though and don't turn off the services that you don't use, it can lag behind some of the other distros. For servers, I like Debian. This is mainly because of apt-get. It greatly simplifies installs of programs. You tell the system to get the package, it d/l's it and installs. One command. Also, Debian is the best suited Linux distro for building clusters. If you d/l the unstable release, it comes with MOSIX, which is the software that turns the network of computers with linux into a distributed cluster. There are also great tutorials on setting up clusters with Debian and MOSIX. I am about to start building one myself with Debian and MOSIX. Also for the server side, FreeBSD is good. It makes a great webserver combination with Apache. Now, on the PPC side of things, I like Gentoo. That's mainly because they are the only ones that have a live cd for PPC. No need to install, just boot and go. If you want a live-cd for x86, I would recommend Knoppix mainly because of wide use. There is a bigger following of Knoppix than Gentoo. BTW LNX-BBC is a live-cd. There is no installation for it. It's made to be used as a live-cd and no other way. I would recommend it, but it's purpose is very specific, to be used as a rescue disk or for diskless computers. Knoppix is a full fledged linux distro with Gnome or KDE and many programs that server the everyday purpose. All of these opinions may change by next month due to the fact that I constantly evaluate new OS's and Linux Distros. I d/l atleast 2 new OS's per week, although I'm starting to run out of OS's to d/l. I have many that I haven't even tested yet, such as OpenDarwin for PPC and x86, GNUStep (a NextStep clone), and Lorma Linux.  Lt. Kernel individualC/O: Knowledge Bank Editting email: ltkernelindividual@ltkernelindividual.cjb.net cMS: individual Replies:
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