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Deciding to go back to Linux platform which immediately means redeveloping all of my online stuff the Linux way, I also decided to use Linux as my desktop environment as well. Whilst I understand that we can both develop and run PHP - mySQL web application on Windows, I believe its native environment is by far the best. However, as I have been away from Linux for at least 6 years and still have significant works which need Windows environment, I dedicate a separate machine for experimentation, to get myself up to the environment I used to be.
Believing that Linux was very lightweight especially compared to Windows, I thought my IBM ThinPad running P3 and 320 megs of SDRAM is quite sufficient. Indeed I found that most Linux distributions now and both of its GUI, either KDE or Gnome are very sophisticated and therefore requires some power. I used to work with Debian, Linux distro which was quite famous for serious developer for its light but high flexibility, and therefore chose to go for Ubuntu, one of Debian’s derivate. Hmmmm…. it was even soooo heavy to move the mouse. So, what else? If Debian was too heavy, never even think of SuSe or RedHat. Fedora sounds appealing.
Finally I hold myself a bit back to a little older version, Mandrake 8.2 which I found to run acceptably fast, at least a lot faster than my Turion powered Acer with 1 gigs of DDR. So it is the first day in Linux after a long while. I am really enthusiastic and start wondering to get a better machine to install either Ubuntu or Fedora.
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