One of the worst things for the newbie is searching for easy or usable distros. This can also be applied to a expert user, whenever looking for new distro: there are few realible informations for the quality of a distro for a specific usage.

(Every distro have some weakness. I've used Conectiva and Debian. The first one was friendly for hardware, but I couldn't install programs easily. Debian, instead, is wonderfull for obsessive program installers, but is hard to have a hardware working)

The problem is not the lack of people qualifing distros. Yet, there are too many and one never can say which one is more realible, since these are too personal qualifications.

Many food organizations has their Seal of Quality, for wines, peanults, cheeses, meat and everything. We can found seals in almost every branch of industry.

Is there any Linux Distro Seal of Quality that could certificate that the distro one want to install is really good for one's own pourposes? Any realible organization classifing if that distro is whether usable for newbies, good for servers, fast, stable or configurable?

It would be a great help for the 'profissionalism' of Linux world.

I would point you to this website as the best beginner's benchmark.

edit: I do agree with some of what you say but am inclined to keep a little chaos. Chaos is the only way to really allow inovation and growth - so long as your kernel works (less chaos in there I think) the rest is your _choice_. A rigid standards system, as has been dicussed on many websites, can just produce software that is compliant with standards - the mobius loop effect - and not new and better things.

edit2: free software comes with no waranty and is _not_ cheese!