[svlug] Recommend a distro?

[Erik Steffl]

Skip Evans wrote:
> 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?

   pretty much any major distro would work (and probably lot of not so 
major ones), live CDs are pretty good as far has time to setup goes so I 
guess knoppix or mepis would be good options (you can install them to HD 
too)

   then again if you already know Xandros it might be a good option too 
(apt-get install few packages shouldn't be that much of a problem)

	erik