Time to start Linuxing..some questions 2232

On Tue, 25 Jul 2006 12:01:36 +0100, The Natural Philosopher

You can use any distro for what you want, my personal preference is Fedora Core (FC5 is the current version). All of the full Linux distros come with everything, you can choose to install as much or as little as you want. On a machine with a reasonable about of RAM (512M or more) you can use one of the full desktops like Gnome or KDE. Having a desktop interface doesn't stop you from doing everything with Xemacs or God forbid VI. However if you don't want Gnome or KDE as a matter of principal then you don't have to install it. The full distros also come with a bunch of lightweight window managers, you can install anyone you want, or all of them if you so choose. If you don't even want X then you can go that way also, as long as you choose the custom install when you do the installation you can install as little as you want. Also all of the distros use the same text based configuration files inetc, most of them have control panel applets but you don't have to use them. You can also use Webmin to configure your servers if you get tired of doing it by hand. Webmin supports just about everything.