<div dir="ltr">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).<br>
<br>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.<br>
<br>Andy<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 10:35 AM, Dan Smith <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dan.smith225@gmail.com">dan.smith225@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div dir="ltr">As naturally as it would happen in the MS world, I had my Quad Core System<br>
running Vista and with the most recent Windows Defender Security Update, it<br>
hosed my system. I was able to save my data, due to keeping on another<br>
drive seporate from Windows.<br>
My question to the group is, I am alooking for a nice distro that has alot<br>
of packages, is light with the GUI (Not ready for text only..), and<br>
something that supports the Multiple processor package (Since I'm assuming<br>
thats how Unix/Linux will read a quad core Phenom running at 2.5ghz). I<br>
currently have 4gb's of ram in the system and it's my goal to keep that<br>
memory in the box.<br>
Can someone please help reccomend a strong distro with X86_x64 support?...<br>
Once I have looked at are Cent OS 5, and OpenSuse 11.<br>
Thanks,<br><font color="#888888">
Dan</font></div>
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