OT: "Best" Linux Distro?

Cini, Richard wrote: It depends on how often/how much futzing you want to do after you have it loaded. Fedora Core is essentially the "Development" branch of Red Hat Linux. It is very current, but the frequent upgrades can be a hassle unless you like to play with the cutting-edge stuff all of the time. Slackware is an oldie-but-goodie distribution. It still has many followers and one of the first distributions I used. FreeBSD: I don't use on a desktop. The *BSDs are all top-drawer stuff but you may have more difficulty working with them then you would Linux -- an effect caused by the incredible press that Linux gets over BSD. It all depends on how much of a Unix-bent you have. Ubuntu I've just started looking at... it's slick and seems to be getting quite a bit of press and mindshare lately. I must admit that my first impression is "ho-hum". Linspire -- I have no idea. That one is a subscription model only. I've heard good things about it but have never personally used it. Its focus appears to be for the Windows user as it makes it trivial to update or add packages. Personally, I use CentOS on all of my machines. It's a rebuild of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and is very stable. I don't need to upgrade very often. Combined with Dag Wieer's repo I find I have everything I need. My laptop is a CentOS 4 machine and it sees heavy daily use. Barry