From: Adam <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the field.near
the bridge">

wrt Ease of use (including everything) I would condsider Ubuntu,
Suse/Novell or Mandriva.

Adam


Randall Parker wrote:
> I have a 1.8 Ghz P4 Dell box that I want to install Linux on. So which
> distribution should I try?
>
> I'd prefer one that makes it easy to keep updated. I'd also prefer one
> that will succeed in installing.
>
> What I'll be doing with it:
>
> 1) Browsing the web.
>
> 2) Writing Java servlet code with libraries for XSLT, XSL FO, and other
> libs and testing it in Tomcat as the servlet server.
>
> 3) Eventually running Postgresql or MySQL.
>
> 4) Maybe writing and testing PHP.
>
> 5) Perhaps writing device drivers.
>
> 6) Running Visual Slick Edit and Eclipse.
>
> 7) Eventually add a graphics card that can drive 2 flat panel displays.
>
> The software development work is meant for deployment other Linux boxes
> on the web and elsewhere. This is just a dev machine.

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