Which is better: Emacs or vi?

Ok, not starting a flame war but I need to ramp up on Linux fairly quickly and I don't know what distro I may be using. What would be a fairly easy distro to dual boot with my Windows XP laptop. I have a Dell Inspirion 9300 and I'd like to be able to use the majority of its hardware. I'm a longtime DOS/Windows user and can get around fairly well there. www.linuxdoc.org plans on being my friend. Thanks

I have a 400mhz powerbook G3 and i want to put linux on it

Specs: 166mhz Dell Latitude LM, 40mb RAM and 2.1gig hard drive. I have actually had Win 95, Win 98, Win98se, Win2000 and XP sucessfully operating on this thing (slow) but is want to get linux going as a last and fast resort. THERE'S A CATCH! : It will not boot from CD rom and I'm new to linux for the most part! Thanks to Questionville in advance and have fun!

Does anyone know of ways to sync the addressbook and calendar in an O2 XDA with KDE PIM ? I want to get my self an o2 but I use kde's personal information management package and I'm not entirely sure if it will work.

My LDAP service isn't functioning and I don't know how to go about figuring out what's wrong. I can start and stop the service and it claims to start and stop as expected, but I can't connect to it with an LDAP browser or login with an LDAP user account.

I'm new to Linux, so I installed Ubuntu on my laptop. I go to school at the a href="http://www.it.utah.edu/services/connected/wireless/index.html"U of Utah/a, and they have secure wireless and wired networks that require authentication. For XP, they install SecureW2, and I can get it to work. For Linux, I guess you're supposed to use a href="http://open1x.sourceforge.net/"Xsupplicant/a. I installed it with apt

Except the ability to view your desktop in

Apparently there's an 8 character limit by default on SuSE, because of crypt.  I'd rather not reinstall the whole OS again.  BTW, I'm working with SLES9 (pretty much SuSE 9.3, as far as I can tell).

Anybody have any reccomendations as to how to set up SuSE 10.1 to be able to print to a printer connected to a Win XP box? Do I do it through Samba or use CUPS? Is there a firewall issue I need to consider?