From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Sep 4 19:47:39 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4DC1C16A4BF for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 19:47:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.messagingengine.com (out2.smtp.messagingengine.com [66.111.4.26]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5ED4F43FDF for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 19:47:38 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sweetleaf@fastmail.fm) Received: from www.fastmail.fm (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (Postfix) with ESMTP id 44B3417C4F9 for ; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 22:44:34 -0400 (EDT) Received: from 10.202.2.132 ([10.202.2.132] helo=www.fastmail.fm) by messagingengine.com with SMTP; Thu, 04 Sep 2003 22:44:34 -0400 Received: by www.fastmail.fm (Postfix, from userid 99) id 2C87D3AD79; Thu, 4 Sep 2003 22:44:31 -0400 (EDT) Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: MIME::Lite 1.2 (F2.71; T1.001; A1.51; B2.12; Q2.03) From: "Sweetleaf" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2003 18:44:31 -0800 X-Epoch: 1062729874 X-Sasl-enc: 9qr6dFyWhkaSaHEj1O0jYw Message-Id: <20030905024431.2C87D3AD79@www.fastmail.fm> X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 05:57:45 -0700 Subject: some linux advice !!! X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2003 02:47:39 -0000 I am planning on setting up a host which has several OS's via.... VMware-4.x. Vmware-4 only runs on linux, so the host OS has to be linux according to their website and i suppose i will have freebsd etc.. as the guest. so my questions is, which linux distro out of the following supported by VMware would be the best foundation regards to stability, speed, security, easy to update and install apps etc... I think memory management and diskspeed would also be important. >From their website, the following distros are supported redhat=20 suse mandrake **maybe asp linux as they are suppose to be 100% compatable with redhat*** which would make the best host OS foundation to support my freebsd "guest" install.=20 Thanks in advance. The system for this project is a: AMD Athlon 1800+ 256 DDR-2100 80 gig ata/100=20 --=20 Sweetleaf sweetleaf@fastmail.fm --=20 http://www.fastmail.fm - Same, same, but different=85