I'm wondering what build of Linux would you guys go with for a home system.  As you all know I use Linux for all my servers, testmy.net of course runs off Linux.  But a build that's good for a server isn't nessisarily the best for a home GUI system.  TMN runs off RHE4 btw.

I saw in some other threads here people talking about one specific build that I ended up looking up at their website... it looked really cool and was thinking about using that one but now I've forgotten what it's called, instead of looking through the 1/4 million posts here I figured I'd just ask.  I also figure by asking we would in turn have a thread here that some other people can find later on and end up getting help from.

It's been a couple years since I installed linux on a home box so my question is... what's the latest and greatest out there right now... what are all the kids talking about these days 

Thanks for the help,
-D

F#@& Ubuntu. I hate that F#@&en thing. Everything on it is done in such a noobish way on there.

Go with opensuse (my fav) or centos.

suse 11 is coming out in about 60 days, and it looks really good, from what ive seen so far.  Suse has this sweet thing called YaST which is a kick ass installer and config tool for it. So no more command line installs 

out of all of them centos is probably the most stable. I dumped RHEL from all my boxes after the first of the year, and switched to centos and wont look back. Ive had one box for 79 days, and its been up for 78 of them with out a restart. I never did that with rhel

I like mandriva too. I use it for one of our file servers at work, and I can't complain it works really well.

ewww...ubuntu....

opensuse ftw....

Yellowdog 6 for the PS3 is interesting too.....although slow...

KDE blows the hell out of Gnome.

Linux is for smart people. 

 Well I decided to make the jump. Gonna give lynix a shot and see what happens. I decided to go with a diffrent approach.

 I went with a ubuntu based lynix and chose a modified verson of it. The one I went with is "ulitmate edition 1.7"

 While I have only been messing with it for a few hours. I Like it. Its based on ubuntu 7.10.  The thing I really like about this type of release is everything is installed for ya. Java, Abode, My nividia drivers. wine.  Has tons of programs preinstalled. Gives me a chance to play around, see what is what. So installing anything is really not necessary.

 It simply works well, I have lots of programs to try and see what I like. What I hate. It really is a windows type inviorment, Even found a boot manager that will change the way it boots up. I put xp  by default. For the ol lady and kids. I can mess around and learn how to install stuff.

 The programs that came with this was impressive. Really think I made the right choice. Gives me a chance to play with lynix with out the hassles of installing programs, and trying to find drivers, and I can learn at my own pace. In time after I get deeper into the world of lynix and understand it better, I will give a few others a run. opensuse will probally be my next.

 I just keep every thing backed up. My d drive id my "try new operating system drive".

try the live cd http://software.opensuse.org/ so you don't have to install anything unless you like it.

 Thats when you create another partition w/ there manager before install.

nevermind... suse was buggy for me.. I went back to ubuntu -- well kubuntu --- F#@& gnome, KDE all the way.

Buggy? What where you doing to make it buggy? 


Have you tried centOS? In my experience that is the most stable one around.

 I gave it the whole slave drive. I just found opensuse to big a pain in the ass to install, and this coming from someone that has installed everything from windows 98 on up to vista.

 Was able to install ubuntu, maddrake and a couple others with out a problem. Kubuntu just up to this point seems ok. Runs fine now.

Just a tip, if you want to back up lynix, ghost 14 works great. I have used it, tried it, and it works fine. Just gotta make sure to hit the option to show hidden systems.  Thats just the fun of lynix. What works well on my setup, may hose yours. Plus I am just gonna follow the adivce of a long time lynix user. Try a few, then stick with one, learn it and in no time your system will be fine. Every "flavor" will have good and bad points. Trick is to set up your box for your own use.  After playing with mandrake a few days, It is a nice system, imho it looks to much like windows. I want lynix on my slave to have a diffrent look and feel to it.

 So instead of jumping around, right or wrong, with the help of nortons ghost, I will just learn and understand ubuntu, or I use kubuntu. I love the kde desktop. have played with the new 4.0 kde desktop that came pre installed, not crazy about it, but its still beta, will see how it all plays out.

 I am kinda impressed with kubuntu forums. They have helped me tons making the switch from windows to lynix.

NP. I moved my servers over to centOS 5 in january from RHEL and will never go back. Now I just gotta get is off this crappy OS called windows server 2003 here and move to centOS only problem is exchange wont work 

The never ending question

God here we go again

My 2 primary choices are Fandora & Madrike

Also puppy for when you need to revive a dead pc or have to do something on someone elses pc that you want to remain confidential

Yeah i do too i have it running in my Nintendo pc

http://www.testmy.net/t-19051

I love it

it runs so fast since it is running off ram

i have use it on a 250 MHz systen with 512 mb of ram and it surf the web alright