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Shai_Hulud:
I would appreciate any advice as to what distrobution would be best for my current hardware setup. Please assist me if you so desire.

I have:  Radeon x800 PCI-E
         Abit AN8 Ultra with Nforce 4 Ultra Chipset
         Generic Mouse and Keyboard
         80 GB SATA 3.0Gb/s hdd
         1 GB ram
         AMD Athlon 64 3000+ Venice 90nm core

Types of applications I would require:
         Some sort of CAD program
         Compilers and/or IDEs for several languages, Pascal, C/C++, JAVA
         Apache (can get it)
         javac and java
         Xaos fractal zoomer
         Software to use my TI-89 Titanium
         Software to view windows netbios drives and printers
Open GL libraries (preferably ATI for better quality 3-d)

Thank you very much for your consideration, and if I can make the format easier to read, please feel free to suggest it.

Jenda:
Your specs are high, so that won't be a problem. If you are a GNU/Linux newbie, I'd recommend one of the eaoy distros. My personal preference is Ubuntu (Kintaro might contradict me here) and SuSe seems to be agood choice too. If you have used GNU/Linux before, you can choose a wide variety, and all the apps, with which I can't help you, are pan-distro (i.e. distro independent). The most advanced, as I see it, for programmers and geeks is Slackware.
It is a common practice to dual boot, meaning usage of multiple distros (and/or OSes) on a single machine.

Welcome to the board.

Orethrius:
I would strongly recommend Slackware, which can be had for free from here or here.  Of course, that mostly has to do with its adoption by some of the more knowledgeable members of the forums.  ;)  I don't know the particular software packages you would need off the top of my head, but I can certainly look into it and see what I find.  Additionally, many of the members here have some ideas for the software, feel free to ask around!

Welcome to the boards, please enjoy your stay.  :D

WMD:
Ubuntu has the largest amount of pre-packaged software there is.  And ATI 3D?  Haha, ATI in Linux is a joke.  And Slackware, which I use, would probably be a bit tough for you to start out with (unless you're really dedicated to figuring stuff out).

That's about all I have to add for now.

MarathoN:
Slackware was a beauty for me...

and then I tried SuSE :rolleyes:

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