I run Xubuntu (the xfce4 version of Ubuntu). It has all the software packages you'll need, a regular release schedule, and is backed by a very active community. Restricted packages are also very easy to obtain (such as the NVIDIA proprietary drivers). Xfce is a great light weight desktop environment, which I find to be way faster and less of a resource hog over Kde or Gnome. My advice would be to try a bunch of different distributions and desktop environments to see which YOU like best. Andy On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Dan Smith <dan.smith225 at gmail.com> wrote: > As naturally as it would happen in the MS world, I had my Quad Core System > running Vista and with the most recent Windows Defender Security Update, > it > hosed my system. I was able to save my data, due to keeping on another > drive seporate from Windows. > My question to the group is, I am alooking for a nice distro that has > alot > of packages, is light with the GUI (Not ready for text only..), and > something that supports the Multiple processor package (Since I'm > assuming > thats how Unix/Linux will read a quad core Phenom running at 2.5ghz). I > currently have 4gb's of ram in the system and it's my goal to keep that > memory in the box. > Can someone please help reccomend a strong distro with X86_x64 > support?... > Once I have looked at are Cent OS 5, and OpenSuse 11. > Thanks, > Dan > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20081006/afa1fdde/attachment.htm