• I'm going to play with VMware. Which distro would be best for this?
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As the title says I'm going to play around with VMware. Which linux distro would be a good idea to use? I have k/ubuntu, debian, SUSe, and MEPIS disks around. I'm not a total noob to linux so usablity isn't as much of a factor. I hear Arch Linux is very small and can fit on a USB drive. Would that be a good choice?
[QUOTE=Skooma;16358781]As the title says I'm going to play around with VMware. Which linux distro would be a good idea to use? I have k/ubuntu, debian, SUSe, and MEPIS disks around. I'm not a total noob to linux so usablity isn't as much of a factor. I hear Arch Linux is very small and can fit on a USB drive. Would that be a good choice?[/QUOTE] Yeah Arch is pretty small. I have it on my 4bg SSD on my Eee PC; however, Ubuntu and Fedora both fit on there too, so whatever. Arch is really cool though. It doesn't install X by default, so you can set that up yourself (might be a pain in VMWare though), and then you can install whatever environment you want on top of that. Most distros will force you to install Gnome or KDE, but with Arch you don't have to install either. And Arch doesn't give you tons of packages you'll never use like the larger distros do.
I just use Ubuntu with WMware, it's cool and works.
[QUOTE=PvtCupcakes;16358923]Yeah Arch is pretty small. I have it on my 4bg SSD on my Eee PC; however, Ubuntu and Fedora both fit on there too, so whatever. Arch is really cool though. It doesn't install X by default, so you can set that up yourself (might be a pain in VMWare though), and then you can install whatever environment you want on top of that. Most distros will force you to install Gnome or KDE, but with Arch you don't have to install either. And Arch doesn't give you tons of packages you'll never use like the larger distros do.[/QUOTE] Shouldn't be a problem as you can just download the VMWare drivers through Pacman.
I recommend mint its the easiest distro I've used, It is very good for beginners
Yep, Linux Mint is really nice for Linux newbies. It's fairly similar in layout to Windows and allows Windows Wireless drivers and things directly from the OS.
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