What Linux distro do you currently recommend?

[Tony Scharf]

> I was pleasantly surprised with Ubuntu on both a server (Ubuntu
> Server) and a desktop... as a desktop Mac OS X is still tons better,
> but everything worked right away and looked pretty good.
>

We have it running here, on a few desktops (IT staff) as well as
servers.  We use it as a host for VMWare, which rocks on it.

> Oh, one annoying quirk: don't installl without a networking cable
> plugged in coz apt-get gets disabled (and you only get cryptic error
> messages).
>

Ive never experienced this.  Are you sure this bug persists in the
current version?

Tony