Distribution. Distribution. Distribution.

I plan to start my Month On Linux on the 1st of June (or on the evening of the 31st) but have to decide on a distribution.

I've read all kinds of articles that promote one distro or another or are quite balanced. http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT3269115798.html

Some recommend Ubuntu and according to this Ubuntu is the most loved. http://www.downloadsquad.com/2006/09/23/the-best-linux-distro-ever-the-results/

But coming in their 3rd is is Fedora and I have been doing quite a bit of research in Fedora.

I recently installed and then promptly stuffed up Fedora Core 6. I actual successfully dual booted Windows Vista and Fedora Core 6 with Grub. It was nice and it had features that I and work well for me in places that are logical but I suppose I owe a lot of this layout to the GNOME project and not Fedora directly. The login screen (the default one anyway) is quite nice.

A recent bit of reading I did suggests that Fedora 7 to be released on the 31st of May (part of the reason my "Month on Linux" project is starting on the 1st of June) is going to be even more Windows like in its menu structure and its layout. That's good it'll help be take the step onto Linux more easily and its setting me up for life as (http://www.desktoplinux.com/articles/AT3269115798.html ) says its the distribution to use if you want to make money. So it makes since that I learn Linux on the most useful system and the system that can be basically configured to do anything from being a server to a workstation.

So that's the distribution I hope to install on my 2nd (18Gb) hard drive .

One of the things I love about linux is its ability to be setup to run Live - (Windows certainly can't to that). Live just basically means that it is run from a disk or a USB flash drive and not installed on the hard drive. DSL is a great example of a tiny operating system that can be made to run Live. But what I want from a live operating system is something more. I want a fully fledged system that has all the office tools that I need like OpenOffice. I want to be able to store my files on it and I want to be able save settings and I want them to be there again when I boot up on another system. So obviously I have to use a USB stick but I am still left with the question as to which distro to run.

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/

This is the site that I went to to get some more information. There are plenty of distros that can run off a USB stick but the one that caught my eye was Ubuntu.

Ubuntu as I mentioned earlier has been hailed by many as the "best distro ever" and my Software Design Teacher seems to like Ubuntu. Having tried it before I was not blown away but since then I have seen newer versions of it and I am blown away. It is pretty damn good so I think I might go out and purchase a 2gb USB stick and whack it on that.

This means that I can pretty much carry around a usb stick, plug it into almost any computer and have my own system. Almost as good as a laptop and smaller.