kekoa vincent

In order to have a good experience developing for Android, I decided to just abort the attempt to getting everything to work in Vista, and install Linux under VirtualBox.

I went to distrowatch.org and wanted to try a Linux distribution that I had not previously tried.  I downloaded ZenWalk, which is meant to be a lean and mean Linux distribution.  I honestly didn't care what distribution I got, cause I wasn't going to be using a package manager or anything, I manually installed everything I needed.  All you need to develop android applications is Java, Eclipse, and the Android SDK.  That's all I installed and found that I had everything else I needed.

Overall, I don't think I would recommend ZenWalk over Ubuntu, or Fedora, but I found it to be nice.  I also like that they feature the xfce window manager, which is less popular than gnome/kde, but is a great option if you don't need all the other distractions of the larger window managers.