Otherwise, ubuntu is way more flexible for what I need 95% of the time.
You may also want to consider Fedora Core 10 or 11. There is a lot more in the FC10 distro than the Ubuntu… which can be a plus or minus. With FC10, if you are going to development work, you need to alter the default install which will not include the dev environment(Its menu driven and easy to do). I have FC10 on my old Dell M60 and it seems to have no problem.. though I do with I had a bigger hard drive (I have both W2k and FC10 on the notebook). If you are going to try FC10/11, you will probably want to use BitTorrent to download it, or I can make a copy of my DVD… ‘message’ me for further info.
