A new Linux recommendation

[Brendan]

On Thursday 29 September 2005 11:55 am, Ed Hill wrote:
> On Thu, 2005-09-29 at 11:28 -0400, markw at mohawksoft.com wrote:
> > I know this will spawn a holywar, I've got a problem. Its time for a
> > Linux upgrade. I want to compile GimpShop and I need a newer version of
> > the Gtk++. Just not worth the work, I'd rather just upgrade.
> >
> > I was a RedHat guy, 4.x to 9.0
> > Then I used Mandrake 10, 10.1, and 10.2
>
> Hi Mark,
>
> At work, we're rather fond of Fedora.  We use it on almost everything
> including laptops, desktops, web servers, NFS servers, cluster nodes,
> etc.  So it certainly can be done.

I am not a big fan of Fedora, but it's wide-spread, so finding friends who use 
it won't be hard. Also, that Bruce Perens series on OSS just came out with 
The Linux Quick-Fix notebook...highly recommended, and it's based on 
Fedora...