Linux - which distributiuon?

I'm wondering what distributions of Linux do you like most. Please make some comments on distribution you like so everybody will know its adventagies.

Gentoo -

A distro that's focussed on new technology and advanced users. If you know little or nothing about Linux, and you haven't the brains and patience to figure it out alone, then you shouldn't get anywhere near this one. If you do, however, than this distro offers you a wide spectrum of options, huge customisation, a 3-level installation procedure, a very solid packages system (emerge), and a great user assistance on the forums. They attempt to incorporate all the latest technologies, (also alpha & beta releases - at your own risk, of course) in their distros allowing you to benefit from a very broad spectrum of options.

I'd have to say my favorite distro of linux is by topologilinux or something like that its really simple to use and I love it lol but it doesn't work on my new computer.....only on my old one for some odd reason...And if you do download it I say you take the version right before there newest cuz thats hte one I liked most, but it's your choice

I've used quite a few.I like RedHat/Mandrake for its easy to use features. Most recommended for naive users.I like Slackware for its most hard to use features. If you really want to learn linux, I'd recommend slackwareI like Debian, for its security and uptodate features. I really love its aptgetAnd I like Suse for it widest collection of utilites

I gotta agree with Roberrtk on Mandrake and RedHat. They are excellent choices for anyone. Debian is my choice for my linux machine. The installation is very customizable and liek Rob said has very up to date features.I ahve heard lots of good about SuSe. However I've also heard that it is made rather hard for people to get it free. I guess you could say they are on the "gray area" concerning GPL.

i got mandrake 10.1 beta 2 and for the first time since i bought my laptop, i found a distribution that really uses my ati radeon 9600 mobility with 64mb dedicated memory . finally, i can play games! it's really easy, even my mom uses it for surfing & typing.they have some kind of 'control pannel clone' too, so you can do a lot of settings through a visual interface if you're not that confident with shells...great for beginner and still quite powerfull too!

recently sun came out with java desktop system 2... have pretty good reviews and really interest me cuz i'm a big fan of sun microsystem... thinking of moving to jds2 soon...

I like mandrake for its ease of use and really nice looking and customizable user interface.I like redhat for its security and for its automatic update thing. It keeps it pretty much up to date with all the new features and security updates.

I use SuSE 9.1 personal and it's very powerful, but i suggest to you also Slackware 10(if you are not a Newbie ) and Debian

My Computing Hostory...i got a ZX Sinclair spectrum.... great machine.. you could either program in interpreted basic... or program in machine code, and poke the machine code instructions into memory with interpreted basic... great !then my needs increced.. i got an Amiga 1200 running workbench 3.1 GREAT os ! even bought a HUGE 500meg hard disk...then, technoloy moved on, amiga died , i got a PC. windows 98... sucked, 2000, sucked, xp... sucked...then Redhat 9... Great... then Fedora, then fedorea core 2.... now i was comfortable in linux i moved to a different DIstro.. Mandrake.. good, but too similar to redhat.. then i tried Slackware.. good... but the was just somthing about it thta made me uneasy.... i wanted to get deeper.. so i tried Linux From SCratch..... perfect.... well. almost.. i found myself reading makefiles to work out optional dependency's and what the thing would do with / without different progrms...thenn i found... GENTOO !!!!!AMASING !!!what more can i say ?bleeding edge software, the most up to date distro ever.. package management like no other system can provide.. lighting fast optimisation... perfect.

I think I'll choose Dabian, Slackware or Gentoo. I was working on RedHat 6.1 a few years ago cause I was doing some PHP things. Now I've installed Mandake 9.1 cause I had it on CD's. But I don't like it... I don't think that using Gntoo/Debian/Slackwere would be hard since I know C and I worked on RedHat which was easy. Running it only under console thaught me many things. If you want to learn something run your Linux without X and it try to configure everything without this stupid wizards (this mandrake druids and wizards are reeeeaaaallllllyyyyy useless). Drogomir

Slackware for its simplicity, RedHat and Mandrake for their easiness to install and configure, Debian for its solidness.Gentoo sound interesting.. I should try it soon...

I like Gento... 'cause I learned so much just by trying to install it...Is very flexible, but I spended over 5 days installing it... so is not for everybody...I also tried RedHat, Mandrake, SuSE and Debian and I recommend Mandrake and RedHat for newbies, but If you want power and customization go for Gentoo (if you don't wanna spend 5 days installing it so use pre-compiled packages)Hope it helps someone to try Gentoo...Or even better hope it helps someone to Drop Windows...

I have used a number of linuces, but spend most of my time in SuSE. I have SuSE 9.1 on one computer, 10.1 on a second and 10.2 on a third. I find its ability to recognize a wide variety of hardware, and install itself on a multiboot system very well-developed.There is a caveat. I bought earlier versions (7.1, 8.1, 9.1) for $50 to $70 each. Each came with around 1,000 pages of manuals. Starting with 10.1, since Novell bought SuSE, the manuals are much smaller, and the free version OpenSuSE has only online manuals, so a new user may be at a loss to find adequate documentation.If you just want to see what Linux is like, try Knoppix, or another of the increasing number of "live CD" distributions. They run from a CD, and don't touch your hard drive. You can test them (and verify that they can recognize your hardware), without installing anything on your computer.

openSUSE 11 + kde4 = orgasm