if you get the google SDK you get an emulator that runs little phone VM's without the calling ability for app development ect. and i have always been a huge VM proponent. but in this case its a secondary workstation/laptop that i will be installing on. On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 9:45 AM, Eric Shubert wrote: > I concur with JD. CentOS for servers, Ubuntu for workstations. > > If you haven't jumped into virtualization yet, I would certainly do so. It > will make your dist-hopping experience much more pleasurable. VMware and > Virtualbox are good places to start. Keep an eye on KVM as well. > > Andriod is certainly interesting. Don't know if you consider that a distro > or not, but it does run a linux kernel. > > Which makes me wonder. Can I run Andriod in a VM? (w/out phone > functionality) > > See http://distrowatch.com for distro ideas. Sabayon looks interesting. > > -- > -Eric 'shubes' > > On 01/07/2011 09:22 AM, JD Austin wrote: >> >> I stick with the ones that will keep me sharp for work: >> Fedora/Mandrake/Centos = redhat >> or Suse (many more use rh based) >> >> On Fri, Jan 7, 2011 at 09:17, Stephen > > wrote: >> >>    Well all I'm getting weirdly antsy in my preferred distro again... not >>    that i dislike using Ubuntu, but that I am looking for that next bit >>    of innovation that makes a distro. >> >>    i liked Vinux when i looked at it this week, but I'm not really in the >>    market/need for a visually impaired setup but glad to have been >>    introduced to it. >> >>    I am anxious to learn what others use here and what that "killer >>    feature" is that drew you to a given distribution. and/or something >>    really innovative that really defined a need for a new distribution. >> >>    For example gentoo is defined by its emerge/portage (to me) and the >>    dynamic flexibility that represents to me. >>    Debian for its rock solid reliability, and conversely Ubuntu being a >>    graceful extension of that. >> >> >> >>    -- >>    A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from >>    rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. >> >>    Stephen >>    --------------------------------------------------- >>    PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>     >>    To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>    http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you from rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button. Stephen --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss