OT: "Best" Linux Distro?

[Zane H. Healy]

At 10:11 AM -0500 12/1/05, Cini, Richard wrote:
>             I'm thinking of ditching Windows totally on my desktop at home
>as I build my next upgraded x86-bsed PC. So, I wanted to take a poll of the
>group for a recommendation on which Linux distro to use. I downloaded Fedora
>Core, Slackware, FreeBSD, Unbuntu and Linspire.
>
>             Any thoughts from the group?

How familiar are you with Unix in general?

As others have pointed out, add SUSE, and Debian to your list of OS's to try.

Personally, it sounds like you're targeting this from the correct 
angle already, download several distro's and try them all.  Then go 
with what you like best.

I've personally used the following distro's over the years; the 
original boot/root disk combo, SLS, Slackware, Red Hat, Mandrake, 
SUSE, Debian.  While I do still have a couple systems with Linux 
installed, I don't really use Linux at home anymore (haven't had one 
turned on in *months*).  Mac OS X pretty much takes care of all of my 
Unix needs at home.

		Zane

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