Re: Howdy - total LINUX newbie present

Dillius Maximus wrote:

I have couple of few hard drives and two boxes.

I'd like to get into Linux from a perpective of web development using PHP,
Perl and MySQL on one of the hard drives and configure a dual boot.

I'm familiar with the UNIX environment, shells etc and it's time to move
on and into LINUX
Could someone advise which is the best flavour, UI have a number of


You need to advise yourself,, linux is about choice, we can't make that
for you. Visit http://www.distrowatch.org and choose for yourself.
Basically decide what you want, make a list of your hardware, use your own
mind to make a decision. If you need others to make that decision then you
really won't make it in the linux world.

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