Linux Mint with Mate has a severe bug in the desktop switcher.
   That is a feature that I use a lot. That rules out Linux Mint with Mate
   for me.

   I am looking at Fedora 17.

   Paul

 Hey Paul,

 Consider CentOS instead of Fedora.

 Fedora is a development environment where they try out new software and
 new concepts.  They issue a new release every six months and only
 support there releases for 18 months.

 CentOS is Red Hat Enterprise Linux with all the RHEL branding removed.
 It is supported for 10 years.  You won't find any experimental software
 or stupid stuff like touch screen interfaces for desktop applications.

   Mark LaPierre

 Does it have a desk top switcher?

 Paul Lamar

Paul, I'm using Fuduntu (a fork of Fedora) and I can't say enough good
things about it.  It's a rolling release and fantastically stable so
far, It's the first distro I haven't had to screw around with to get
everything working on my netbook.  It's Gnome 2 only though but that's a
plus in my books.  No problems at all with the desktop switcher.

Everett Rankin

Gnome 2 is a plus in my book too. Thanks for the tip. I'll download it and give
it a try. I am using an Asus notebook with 4 processors and 64 bits.

What do you think is a good partition strategy for a one Terra byte drive.

300 for the OS and 700 for the data?

Paul Lamar

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