I have been using Ubuntu for about 5 months and it has been great. I recently have upgraded to Ubuntu Dapper 6.06 Beta 2 and it has been an awesome expericence. Lately I have been thinking of trying some other distros, so if anyone could help me with some names, it would be appreciated. First off, I am not really a Linux noob. I don't know everything about Linux but I do know quite a bit. I would prefer if the distribution was debian based (I had a horrible expericence with OpenSuSE 10.0 + Fedora Core 5 and rpms)and that distro had a good user base like Ubuntu. I am not abandoning Ubuntu, I am just branching out and wanting to try new things. So, any ideas for Linux distros ?

http://distrowatch.com/ ??

Arch--a really simple distro which is relatively easy to tailor. Also, a very good learning tool.

Thanks for the suggestion I think that I'll install it tomarrow so I'm downloading it now.

nice to see all the arch recommendations lately

I really like the whole approach they have taken. There ARE some difficulties---eg when you install a window manager, you have to figure out how to set up the X config. I have found that to be a difficult process---but I HAVE learned a lot.

The Arch forum on LQ is only lightly attended---does anyone know a better one?

OK--you got me in a lazy mode. Now to check why I missed this looking at the Arch site.....

why not straight debian instead of a debian derivative

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You do know that this is the official Slackware Forum?

Why not Slackware?

Check out our forum here, and look around, and see if it meet your hopes.

Lycoris/Mandriva
Lesbian Linux
Arch Linux

That's all I can think of at the moment.