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yes mint 15 is good i can find all the apps i need.I'm pretty happy with Mint 15 w/Cinnamon currently. Stable and seems to run pretty light on my laptop. Easy to customize and being Ubuntu based, it's easy to find a wide range of apps for it.
FreeBSD has been forgotten again....
Wait for the explanation!
Windows XP.
Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, created the dumbest OS ever. Win XP running inside VirtualBox sees VirtualBox as the same hardware no matter which physical computer it's loaded on or what version of VB it's running in.
This means that you can create a single registered copy of XP as a VB .vdi file and port it over on to any number of different Linux computers. So you only need one legitimate registered license to run XP on multiple systems inside VirtualBox.
You can backup and restore a .vdi file easily using the "split" and "cat" commands in a terminal on almost any Linux OS.
Linux as your primary OS and Windows XP in VB -- the best of both worlds.
And I can play KOTOR nicely.Wait for the explanation!
Windows XP.
Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom, created the dumbest OS ever. Win XP running inside VirtualBox sees VirtualBox as the same hardware no matter which physical computer it's loaded on or what version of VB it's running in.
This means that you can create a single registered copy of XP as a VB .vdi file and port it over on to any number of different Linux computers. So you only need one legitimate registered license to run XP on multiple systems inside VirtualBox.
You can backup and restore a .vdi file easily using the "split" and "cat" commands in a terminal on almost any Linux OS.
Linux as your primary OS and Windows XP in VB -- the best of both worlds.
Slackware - when you're ready to get your hands dirty.
I've had my share of tweaking linux. Now I'm happy with using Xubuntu.
And I'm surprised nobody above has mentioned Xubuntu or some other Xfce spins.
I don't really care about resource consumption.Xfce is a great choice for any Linux distro being used to manage robotic hardware due to its low resource consumption. Lubuntu (LXDE) is also a great choice for such hardware.