re: #383 ozbloke

Ah, sorry, I should have mentioned why I’m doing it.

I’m just looking for a clean, stripped-down environment to do programming in. For whatever reason, I find it easier to learn new things, especially technical things, in an uncluttered environment. I want to be able to use SVN or some other version control system.

In addition, I want to learn Linux because the thing I’m going to be programming is a web app, and will eventually live on a web server, and so that’ll almost certainly be Linux.

So I don’t really want the fun so much as the utility, and the Linux distro that will strike a good balance between me learning the guts of it and having enough backbone to it that I can get started pretty quickly.

OpenSUSE was my thought partially because I like the open part, and partially because a friend of mine used to be CTO for it while he was at Novell. It sounds like you’d recommend Debian, since what I want is the utility + eventual move to web.