64-bit LINUX advice

[[AK]Abaddon]

Anyone have advice on a good 64-bit LINUX version?

I'm a bit hacked off that VISTA 32-bit cannot recognize up to 4 GB of memory (which it needs to run well IMO), and I'm not inclined to shell out the wads of cash that MS wants for Vista 64-bit. It's been a few weeks since I played a computer game, and I am in the mood to experiment with my computer.

So, any of you geeks running LINUX boxes have a good suggestion or two? :-)

[[AK]Palooka]

http://www.ubuntu.com/

[[AK]Squidly]

That's a solid choice.

[[AK]Abaddon]

In preparation, I downloaded and made install DVDs for MEPIS, Ubuntu, and Fedora versions of LINUX. What the heck makes Fedora a 3.4 GB install DVD versus 800-900 MB like the others?

[[AK]Hylander]

I have an Ubuntu box myself - although I use to be a huge SuSE fan, I really like this Ubuntu install to 'play around with'. I don't use it that often - but it's there.

Also.. you DO NOT want the 64-bit version of VISTA. If you read MaximumPC at all... it's a disaster and horror story waiting to happen with all the problem, incompatibilities, etc. Worse than the 32-bit version by far.

[[AK]Squidly]

Also.. you DO NOT want the 64-bit version of VISTA. If you read MaximumPC at all... it's a disaster and horror story waiting to happen with all the problem, incompatibilities, etc. Worse than the 32-bit version by far.

And that's saying something.

Buy a Mac and throw XP on a second partition.

[[AK]Clay]

OK I'm seriously thinking about trying this for my tablet notebook.

I've got a few qwirks that I'm hoping you guys can offer some advice on:

It's a tablet notebook. Meaning it's a touch screen you can write on and you can rotate the screen around to make it a flat surfaces to write upon. Right now all that is built into what I have - are there some Linux OS versions or add-ons that will support this?

The tablet also has some built in nifties for playing DVD movies, with little push buttons right on the side of the screen for controls. This is custom to that brand HP laptop (HP Pavilion TX1000). Any chance I will be able to still use that? I'm hopeing this is hardware in some ways, since this will work w/out even having to boot up the machine - so maybe OS independant?

I play WoW a lot. Will WoW, it's addins, and Ventrillo work on Linux? If I have to use some kind of Windows Emulator - will I still be able to use all 4 GB of RAM I have in my machine?

[[AK]StitchJones]

Thank you for the link Ab!

[[AK]Clay]

Any updates on favorite versions of Linux? Looks like it's mostly down to Ubuntu and Sabayon.

[[AK]Hylander]

I just updated to the latest release of Ubuntu and must say it just keeps getting better. Updating doesn't get any easier and everything just works.

[[AK]The Beast]

I've got an Ubuntu VM on my MacBook, and I love running on it. Almost as much as MacOS.