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<DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 6px">I would like to go to install fest. Will there be
distros available there ? If so, which might most likely be there ? I'm not sure
which distro I want. should I possibly download several different distros
onto my machine and then discuss at install fest further which I should use ? If
certain distros are likey to be there, then perhaps I would bring some other
alternatives to those ?</DIV>
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<DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 6px">I am familiar with unix in that I worked on an
AIX for many years and SUN OS/solaris as well. <BR></DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 6px">I am a programmer, mainly interested in Perl,
Ruby, Java, C++, etc. I'm doing this for my resume, experience, and possible
work. Also, a distro that I could eventually decide to use instead of windows
for word processing, email, browsing the web and so on might be good. I want to
be able to put linux on my resume and use my laptop with linux to do
telecommuting type work if needed for various companies that require linux and I
have a particular interest in web type work with Ruby, Perl/CGI, etc. I've
looked at the linux.org listing and there are so many distros to chose from
that I allmost don't know where to start. I am planning to research it further,
it's just I am affraid I am going to have a hard time deciding. I want to
maintain a windows partition.<BR></DIV>
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<DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 6px">Some info on my HP laptop that I bought a couple
of months ago: <BR></DIV>
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<DIV class=qt id=qhide_135238 style="DISPLAY: block; PADDING-LEFT: 6px">>From
"my computer" it shows: <BR><BR></DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 6px">processor 1.60 GHz <BR>590 Mhz, 504 MB of ram
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<DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 6px">from Accesories -> system tools -> system
information it shows <BR></DIV>
<DIV style="PADDING-LEFT: 6px">total 512 MB, available 105.36 MB <BR>total
virtual 2 gig <BR>avail virtual 1.96 gig <BR></DIV>
<P style="PADDING-LEFT: 6px">When I bought it, it was advertised as having a 60
gig hard drive, though from my-computer it shows 47.3 gig. I would like to keep
a <BR>windows partition. <BR>
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<P style="PADDING-LEFT: 6px">Thanks <BR></P></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>