a list of the best distros

[cs30841]

I just got a cd burner. and want to download the best distros and burn the cd. could you give me a list of the best ones. big and mini distros. and i would like a couple for programing and web serving. please dont argue about what one is better i just want your ideas on which ones are worth the time of download.

[tar ciryatan]

take a look into mandrake 7.2, and debian, at the least.

[2thumbs]

I recommend Mandrake, Debian and Slackware for the "fullsize" distros. I'd suggest Peanut (based on slack) for a nice small distro. For something tiny, I'd go with FreeSCO.

[ph34r]

Slackware and Peanut - basically the same, just a size difference.

:cool: Slackware :cool:

[bdg1983]

Not another one...

Everyone has their own opinion as you can see by the many 'What's the best distro' posts.

I would suggest you judge by youself.

Visit all of their websites, check for hardware compatibility, features, versions of included software etc.

You can read some of this right here.

http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/distros/index.html

[cs30841]

im looking for special distros like that are created for web hosting and programing. that is what im really looking for. it must fit on a 1Gb drive that is really my only requirements. i want to try out different distros on one box for programing perl scripts and python and some c++ stuff. and have it died into my network so i can file transfer the programs. that is all this box is going to be used for. the other box it going to be a server for low trafic web sites. I want the best distro for hosting sites using python and perl scripts of course html and ftp, and im wanting to learn some other web site stuff to use with this. but this one will have multiple drives and probably hooked into the fastest DSL connection i can get in my area.

[bdg1983]

Most if not all of the major distributions come with Apache (web hosting), perl, python and c.

And again all can fit on a 1GB drive by being selective in what you install.

[Tyr-7BE]

I think by the description, as far as linux goes, Debian would be his best choice. Debian default install can be done from floppies (doesn't have to be), and it installs the ABSOLUTE minimum for the system to function, plus dpkg and its frontends. Once you get that set up and online, you apt-get apache and all modules you need. Once that's done, you have yourself a webserver, installed on less than 50 megs!