Which linux for my macbook?

[Journer]

So...i've finally decided i wanted to triple boot my macbook (developing reasons and i want to learn on all envrionments) but i'm debating on which flavor of linux to isntall. apparently i need a 'live boot' (wtf is this anyways? disc with minimal crap on it and you use apt-get to get all your crap extra crap?) disc and the guide i'm looking at used ubuntu...and that looks cool...in the past ive used mandrake, red hat, and debian. i'de rather not go with deb or mandrake...fedora is my top choice because i suppose its more mainstream...skills in it would be more usefull in the industry, i suppose...anywho, i couldnt find a live install disc for fedora...

anywho...anyone got suggestions? how do you feel about ubuntu?

 

[imported_LoKe]

Ubuntu is one of the easiest distributions to use. In fact, it's the one I started on and still use. I would definitely suggest it.

 

[Nothinman]

And I would suggest VMWare, dual booting sucks and triple booting will suck just that much more. Eventually you'll pick the OS you use the most and stop using the others. With VMWare you can startup/shutdown the other OSes without stopping what you're doing, as long as you have enough memory.

And I would second Ubuntu or Debian. Debian has more supported packages but the Ubuntu installer is prettier. I personally can't stand Fedora, you have to run to 3rd pary repositories for too many things and yum is mindnumbingly slow. If you want to develop some "industry skills" install CentOS, it's a clone of RHEL and right now RHEL is the kind of commercially supported distributions.

 

[Noema]

As a Linux newbie I third the Ubuntu suggestion. Package managing with both synaptic and aptitude make going back to the plain old Windows installers hard.