Jerrod Howard wrote: >OK, I don't mean to open a flame war or anything, but I am building up a >machine to do beta testing on our calendar and some other graphical analysis >programs on (STL viewers and converters, PLY builders, etc). Right now, we >run Debian 3.0 on our calendar, but it is *very* sparse (mini-OS and Apache >to house our calendar). > >I was wondering what OS you would recommend (which Linux version) that is >the most stable, while allowing for a good GUI engine to manage the graphics >aps? I know SuSE, Mandrake (which I know pretty well), and RedHat, and I >will probably try them both out (since while I'm testing I can blow out the >machine at will), but are there some others you have experience with that >you know to be pretty easy to install and run very stable? It will house the >OS, apache (or some web server), FTP server, and some graphics apps. Thanks > >Jerrod Howard >Core Imaging Facility > > I use SuSE linux heavily for the desktop workstation, and on a backup servers. I gave up on RedHat years ago. I have heard good coments on Gentoo linux, but I have not tried it. I have seen where Debian has a beta graphics installer out, and has a new version coming out in a month or so. thanks, Danny