No matter what distro(s) I may try out, I always come back to Debian. For me, Sarge has been a real treat. A little off topic I know but NetBSD 3 has been a real surprise also...

Gentoo! It was love at first sight. Or 5th install.

PCLinuxOS...up-n-comer...

Ubuntu close...

edit: can't freakin' spell...

Debian. Without Debian, we would have no Ubuntu or Knoppix. Apt is far beyond any available package manager in Linux. Just my thoughts.

Suse. Excellent, works with most hardware out of the box and I'm loving Yast. Its repository system is just as good as any. Especially with Packman. I can find just about anything theres an rpm for.Everything is installable from one sitting. Dependecies are automatically checked for and downloaded/installed.

Come on Debianites out there! We need to make Debian win this year. Come out into the open and vote...

Did somebody try all distros in the list?

Hello, first post.
Well, I'm not new with Linux, but for my new computer Fedora Core was the only one (as far I've tested) that recognized my SATA HD. Well knoppix did it as well, but the graphical setup for dummies was a pleasure.

FC5 will be released soon, won't it?

Love, love, LOVE Gentoo.

ubuntu too, but that uses Gnome. And I dislike gnome a lot.

Have used Suse for a year but just tried PClinuxOS and like it a lot. agree about Gnome, tried it but can't get into it. try kubuntu.

does anyone use 'Foresight'.

has some cool features like beagle, but not much documentation - their wiki is broken. this could be a good project if they fixed that.

need a guide to using the packagemanger as nothing much installed by default..

Looks like you would be better off with "Hindsight" and don't use it again

Once you go .deb you never go back!! Debian has great documentation, better than redhat anyday. Great Package managment, better than rpm even with the deb/rpm clones.

At first Debian may seem a little to much for some people because they can't have what the feel is a perfect system in 10 minutes. But trust me, if you have to run an I.T. Department Debian servers are a dream come true. Basically I can do anything I want and once you make your "prefect" setup, tools like mondoarchive allows me to duplicate it everywhere. I was able to upgrade 20+ remote servers to Sarge from woody without any real problems. I can't even upgrade windows 2000 to 2003 while sitting in front of the computer without problem, let alone just using ssh hundred miles away!

In the business enviroment I just can't think of a better system. I have replaced all my windows servers and redhat servers with Debian and I have more reliablity, quicker configuration, more options and software that allow me to replace other items like routers and firewalls. If Debian was hot I would marry it!

Hey I love PCLinuxOS.. basically everything worked out of the box.. used the livecd for 10 mins before deciding this was it!