On Apr 4, 2005 11:35 AM, Abhishek Daga abhishekdaga@yahoo.com wrote: ... snipped...
But whats a near ideal replacement? Gentoo? Lindows (avoidable?).
Remember it's a Desktop and not Server, so rock solid stability may not be necessary and sufficient condition.
thank you, Abhishek
Just like the old adage "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder" the same is true for the Linux desktop i.e. you will get a lot of different opinions. You will have to decide which distro works best for you.
I personally prefer SuSE Professional - am using 9.2 on an AMD64 and I am quite happy with it. As for winmodems see http://www.linmodems.org/ for your model. There are other desktop centric distros like Xandros, Linspire that you can explore as well.
HTH, -- Arun Khan