Im running XP home
I got a proxim Orinoco gold wireless card

I want to setup the dual boot on my laptop

which would you guys pic?

Gotta be The Fedora Core

i have red hat professional workstation, would you recomend that over the rest, or is FC3 better?

LIVE cd and install from live cd. Easy for beginner like me.

So you can try it before you install it, from the same cd.

Knoppix - another live cd, its good but I just dont care for all the german stuff that I can't seem to completely get rid of even if I choose lang=us (and soud works good in 3.3 version but on 3.7 I can't get it to work).

SuSE 9.2 have it installed on a partition now, am gonna try to get my wireless working ad play with it some more - but looks good (but suring installing some modules would not install - maybe a bad dvd burn? gonna install it from cd method) Only thing with suse is that it is PICKY and wants to be the main linux partition...i had hda1 windows, hda2 mepis, and hda 3 ready for suse and it just did not want to go to hda3. it wanted hda 2 and would only install to there (what a pain).

Have tried to install a few other flavors like buffalo, mandrake, and debian but since i was a newbie it was such a pain to get stuff installed without it complaining about something else. so back to mepis it was, easy, simple and simpley mepis. Now if only I can get my internal wireless nic to work I would be a happy camper.

yeah i have installed Suse 9.1, mandrake 10 is my desktop os right now and i like it ,but not sure how it is with wireless on a lappy.
I have tried to get operator 3.3 (I like all the network and security tools) but cant seem to get my AP setup on it.
It connects to a non WEP in my neighborhood fine.
Some of the steps i cant do because it is a live CD, like edit the resolv.conf and stuff like that (I have a thread opened for this one)
Knoppix is good, i havent really seen to much german stuff on it, cant you download the EN distro, im pretty sure that is what i got. The first time i downloaded it I got the GE one, that was a trip to get working.

FC3 is newer, depends on your defintion of better. I would certainly keep current, particularly where wireless is concerned as its still a recent technology for the most part.