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I am still learning, but I like Slackware.

Out of the list I was torn between Ubuntu and old-school Debian, however I am running neither atm. Right now I run MEPIS 6.0 Beta5 on one PC, and a dual-boot of WinXP and MEPIS 6.0 Beta4 on my main PC. Ubuntu gets my vote though, since MEPIS uses many of the Ubuntu packages, including many of the servers that apt-get searches.

I think you should add Gentoo to the poll. This distribution can be automatically optimized and customized for just about any application or need. Extreme configurability, performance and a top-notch user and developer community are all hallmarks of the Gentoo experience. Thanks to a technology called Portage, Gentoo can become an ideal secure server, development workstation, professional desktop, gaming system, embedded solution or something else, whatever you need it to be. Because of its near-unlimited adaptability, other people call Gentoo a metadistribution

You are missing Gentoo. I simply can not run any other distro after getting used to the developer friendliness of Gentoo.

vote slackware
the stable os for me

I dont have a lot of experience in Linux surrounding but I test some of the most popular distros, and I my favourite from all is Fedora Core 4... This is maybe one of the easier distributions in Linux world and it is easy to set it up .
Of course there always be a problems but with a little help you can fix it .

i choose slackware from that list,
i have been told that freebsd is better for a server and i wouldnt mind giving it a go, but when i first tried to install freebsd i had some install errors so i gave up for a bit, i recently moved around my room and decided that i would try freebsd again, and it seemed to work, until my hard drive went.

but if freebsd isnt quite what people make it out to be i will definatly go back to slackware, it just seems to be more "user friendly" to me, and i never had any problems with it

He, right now I just installed my first linux distro. It's ubuntu, it was a recommendation of some friend to install it =)

What I can say you about it at the moment, is well, it takes 1,8 Gb for installing.

It looks pretty decent. It has preinstalled basic programs you can need... and well I'm just surfing around with the system, I wanna learn more heh...
I'm interested in getting some other distro that uses less space and sources, so I'm looking for some other version called DSL (Damn small linux). Thanks guys on #phoenix for your help =)

none of those!
its all about suse linux!

I really wish I could vote for both Ubuntu and Debian, since these are the two distros that really got me hooked. Debian showed me how useful and easy Linux could be as a server, Ubuntu won my desktops over.

I had messed around with RedHat 5.1 back around '98 but could never get X to work, so I just sat at Bash and read Fortunes and the LDP howtos. It was a good intro to what GNU/Linux was about and the history of *nix, but it didn't show me what I could actually do with it, since I couldn't get it online (winmodem was all I had back then) and I needed a GUI back then.
Later on I got Caldera 2-point-something, which was actually pretty decent, in spite of what Caldera later became. First time using KDE. Still couldn't get any real use out of it.

I kept that box running Caldera just as a learning tool, to mess around with the shell and *nix utils with, but it wasn't until I got a high speed connection and installed Debian that I really fell for Linux. That was around 3, maybe 4 years ago. Since then I use Debian on my servers, and Ubuntu with XGL on desktop systems. I'm on a customized Ubuntu box right now. The file/print/web/ssh/vnc servers run Debian, two desktops on Ubuntu, one of which is my sisters main machine.

I compile my own linux distro .

Nothing beats Linux From Scratch.

Only downside is sitting and waiting of everything to configure and compile... especially an X server .

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I used Slackware its a light linux and isn't hard for the hardware . I will use Slack again . My sister use Suse and she is very pleased

I sometime use Ubuntu becouse u dont need to install it u can just boot from cd.