Gentoo for AMD64

Just went through another round of distros to find one for my new AMD 64 laptop. Fedora, Debian, Knoppix, Katonix, Mepis and others. I settled on Gentoo for the trip (moved from the U.S. to Germany), but Slackware is going on it now that I've got my desktop back online. Gentoo is fast and clean, but you can't beat Slackware. It just gets out of your way and lets you get set up and then work. Too cool, and it never, ever crashes. I run current all the time and haven't had an OS crash in, oh, 18 months or so. Not since I tried various drivers for my ATI video card. Just keep slackin'!

Xandros Linux version 3.0 is the best. It just works . I have tried the latest Mandrake,suse and Lindows and Xandros is far far ahead of the pack.

Gentoo - for reasonably quick (or just damn fast ! ) machines with broadband connections. MEPIS for the rest.

My two bits worth.

Using Mandrake 10.0 on several computers and happy.

Why is PCLOS not included as the best Distribution of the year, it serves as a live cd yes, but I run it full time on my HD, that makes it the best Distribution on my box.

linux Fedora Core is the best.

Fedora Core 3.

Gentoo for me. I have used Redhat since 8.0, and tried mandrake once ( which didnt last long, not my kinda distro ), and i have used Fedora Core 1 & 2 ( testing stages mind you ), but changed to Gentoo and have been happy since. I liked Redhat/Fedora, but the bloat was a bit much, got me a little confused. I would kinda like to try Slackware, and Ubuntu which i will install on a mates comp who is just going to start getting into Linux, but the awesome clean running from my Gentoo system is just what i want and need, and the emerge system is, for the most part, better than the RPM installs, except for having to wait for some programs ebuilds to be updated.

Although it might not be everybody's distro, gentoo is definately MY distro of choice.

Slackware

Same here

slightly off topic, but comprookie2000, whats the font for the wm in ur screenshot ?

I second this. It would be nice if there could be at least an "other" category in which you can enter your own choice.

From the theme?

!! Fonts
window.active.label.text.font: anorexia:shadow=y:shadowtint=60
window.inactive.label.text.font: anorexia
menu.items.font: snap
menu.items.active.font: anorexia
menu.title.text.font: anorexia:shadow=y:shadowtint=60

Ubuntu - best roll-out, press coverage, rapid population of high quality product, forum and guides, with option for corporate support. Not on the list, and just sneaking in at the last minute of the year, was PCLinuxOS Preview 8 -- possibly the smoothest, prettiest, best-out-of-the-box distro out there.