Best Distribution Poll

i had my hands on suse ages ago and it was great and i really enjoyed it but now i think i prefer redhat.

Personally I don't like FC/Redhat nor Suse. They both tend to "think" too much, many times wrong -in an OS I prefer that I do the deciding while it does the "doing" part. If I wanted the OS to have an opinion and an attribute, I'd stay with windows.

Slackware & Gentoo all the way

Gentoo Gentoo Gentoo!!

My .02,
Jay

Go ahead and flame me but I have to say FC4 has been the most stable and enterprise ready (other than RHEL). I guess, it is just the distro that fits the best under my circumstances.

Drew

Agree with Drizzle. I started with Red Hat, and have been through all of the FC's. Each time that there has been a major change like FC4->FC5, I have backed up my systems, crossed my fingers, and done the "upgrade install" on running boxes. It has never failed me. Although, now tht I've said that, it probably will. :lol:

With Suse your right, it doesn't give you the feel of a linux distro, i recommend it for newbies like my dad, but me i like hard core distros that force you to learn the unix framework.

For example Knoppix or auditor installed on a laptop, offers alot, and forces learning.

Lindows - "Take a chance to change, what protocol destroyed"

For me above all is debian. it's a really stable distro. and in three flavours .
and another "distro" - it's not distro LFS. it's worth effort. if you compare it with gentoo you 'll see what is real linux from sources without automation etc.
like a debian, gentoo is automated (emerge) the difference time of installing. in debian i can also build program with apt-build from sources and put optimizations for my computer.