BeatrIX has been added.

--jeremy

You is a gent, thanks.

Kanotix. Too bad it's not on the list. Kanotix is the fastest way to get a Debian-based (SID) GUI system installed and running. Highly recommended.

PClinuxOS rules man!
It is also one of the most newbie friendly- best looking- best hardwaredetecting- and complete distros out there.

I can't believe anyone would vote for another distro, must be that they haven't tried it yet. http://www.pclinuxonline.com

Jack D

Hehe, well, ther are some very good distros out there, and to be honest, alot of people love Gentoo for what it is: a good learning experience that offers control, and once you've got a desktop, plenty of speed.

As for the raves about PClinuxOS . . . . yep, it's all true.

FreeSBIE or FC install disk 1 for rescue tasks

Knoppix... the only other Live-CD I've tried is Ubuntu Live. I really liked the looks (I'm not used to Gnome).

When I decided to show it to a friend who doesn't use Linux, though, he wasn't impressed at all. Neither was I!! I showed him how it'll automatically get him connected to the internet. Worked fine. I then thought, "What else can I show him?". I decided to play some of the media on his Windows partition.

That is when I discovered that Ubuntu Live cannot play MP3s out of the box.

Very unimpressive display... if only it was Knoppix, we might have a new Linux convert!

Dave

PClinuxOS not only has all the best-of-breed mediaplayers out there - amaroK, xmms, juK, etc., but it has all the codecs already installed.

Knoppix is pretty good, but the hard drive install is far easier on PclinuxOS.

Where is Gnoppix? I voted for Knoppix anyhow.

LinuxDefender is the only CD I only carry on with me @ home and @ work. It allows me to recover data, disinfect windows workstations (even NTFS partions) and to play music and frozen bubble while I set up a mail filtering relay

I liked slax for the greater part of 2004, but the Recent Knoppix 3.7, won me over

I know it's not Linux... but how about FreeSBIE ?

Knoppix

I choose SLAX cause in my experence it has worked for me on more systems then Knoppix and works much faster also

Easiest HD install I've encountered (~4 default clicks if not dual booting)