Hi,<br><br>Personally, i have installed a LAMP system (i think its an option when doing a text based install ) and vmware on an ubuntu 7.10 server and they worked great. Haven&#39;t tried on another distro coz of time limitations!<br>
<br>Unfortunately, this is a journey you have to embrace alone after everyone has heaped praises on their prefered choice of distro....i won&#39;t say which is my favourite coz it will serve to confuse you more. :-)<br><br>
That said, take it a step at a time....am assuming you have time to play around with the distros. <br><br><span style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 0);">&quot;After a lot of hard work, I have graduated to a normal linux user.
still, i am so inexperienced that i have wasted a whole week of person-hours............... I hereby sought your advice on the most suitable linux distribution for linux power users&quot;</span><br><br>Out of curiosity (with a smile on me face)......you have bridged the gap between normal user and power user rather quickly..........hehe<br>
<br>My 2 cents!<br>