Hi everyone,

I'm a long-term computer user, Mac and Windows, looking to move to
Linux.

I am planning to buy a dedicated Linux PC and want a full install
rather than a CD-bootable version. Which would be a good distribution
to start on? My working requirements are sketched out below...

My work includes maintaining several large websites. I'm aware that
The GIMP handles many bitmap image functions, but I'd like to be able
to convert existing PostScript graphics from Fireworks, FreeHand,
Illustrator, Quark, as vectors rather than bitmaps because they get
recoloured regularly. Any thoughts?

I'd like a recommendation for an industrial-strength text editor, at
least BareBones Edit equivalent.

I'd also appeciate some thought on databases. I'm a long-term user of
FileMaker, have some experience in SQL-web integration, and I'd like
to find a database program which is reasonably easy to use and
provides similar functionality.

Thanks for any help.

Will
Just download the Knoppix Bootable CD version 3.4 Once you boot up to

SuSE Linux is about the easiest distribution to work with. The two top
contenders are Red Hat and SuSE. SuSE however, is making some huge
leaps ahead of Red Hat. They did a good job with reining in the
administrative tasks in their control center. They give you a lot of
help with the /etc system settings files and they even made it easy
to install nVidia drivers.

The ftp install of SuSE 9.1 just came out and it's worth upgrading to
even if you have 9.0. There are some big differences including the
2.6 kernel.

nEdit is a great editor. You'll have to download that though. Most
linux distributions come with OpenOffice which is a good office
suite.

MySQL is about as cheap as you can get. It's free if you're not going
to use it for commercial purposes. The Control Center and
Administrator look decent enough to use and may be enough to get by
with if you're not a developer.

I don't work for and am not affiliated with SuSE in case you were
wondering.
Good luck! :D


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Hi everyone,

I'm a long-term computer user, Mac and Windows, looking to move to
Linux.

I am planning to buy a dedicated Linux PC and want a full install
rather than a CD-bootable version. Which would be a good distribution
to start on? My working requirements are sketched out below...

My work includes maintaining several large websites. I'm aware that
The GIMP handles many bitmap image functions, but I'd like to be able
to convert existing PostScript graphics from Fireworks, FreeHand,
Illustrator, Quark, as vectors rather than bitmaps because they get
recoloured regularly. Any thoughts?

I'd like a recommendation for an industrial-strength text editor, at
least BareBones Edit equivalent.

I'd also appeciate some thought on databases. I'm a long-term user of
FileMaker, have some experience in SQL-web integration, and I'd like
to find a database program which is reasonably easy to use and
provides similar functionality.

Thanks for any help.

Will