[svlug] Recommend a distro?

[John Conover]

Skip Evans writes:
> Hey all,
> 
> I have just completed a big e-commerce system for a client that we 
> hope to sell to other businesses in his industry. He is going to a 
> trade show and wishes to take a laptop with the system, including 
> Apache, PHP/MySQL so the system can run standalone in a conference 
> room type setting that will probably not have internet access.
> 
> So I need to install a distro that has KDE (Mozilla, etc) installed to 
> provide a desktop with the other backend components mentioned above as 
> well.
> 
> I use Xandros on my own desktop, but not so sure it's the right distro 
> for this job, since it doesn't even install with a C compiler. I have 
> to go out and apt-get install gcc after a fresh Xandros install.
> 
> Any distros anyone would recommend for such an application?
>

Hi Skip. My fav. (other's MMV,) is Knoppix. Live CD is available off
of http://www.knoppix.net, use the "knoppix-installer" command off of
the live boot to install it to HD. Has
KDE/Mozilla/Firebird/Thunderbird/Apache, etc.

I like it because if it blows up, (it never has, but I like to extort
my OSs,) its never more than 14 min. away from a virgin install on a
cold HD.

Just IMHO ...

     John

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John Conover, conover at rahul.net, http://www.johncon.com/