[LUNI] What distro are you using?

[Robert Smith]

I'm currently running Debian Etch on my main laptop. I really have no complaints regarding its use. I've also tried both Ubuntu 7.10 (Debian derived) and PCLinuxOS 2007 (Mandriva derived), and liked them both. PCLOS was particularly good at hardware detection. I also have an old laptop (600MHz, 128MB RAM) that I installed Xubuntu 7.10 on, and it's operating just fine with that.
   
  Rob Smith
  

Branko Kotur <skie at dragonsvalley.com> wrote:
  I've just recently bought parts for a new computer and will be gutting my old 
computer for a few extra parts that I didn't buy. This has led me to put 
some thought into what distro I'll be installing. Currently, I'm using 
Gentoo for my main system, but I'm on the fence as to if I want to spend a 
few days with no computer (aside from my aging laptop) while I wait for 
everything to compile. I've been a Gentoo user for a few years, but the 
prospect of another long install and even longer process of trying to get 
things to work the way I want them to, I'm thinking of switching to something 
easier and faster. While I love Gentoo once it's up and running, I just 
don't think I want to go through that hassle yet again. 

I've recently used Fedora 7 and Ubuntu 7.10 on my laptop and was wondering 
what other distros everyone is using so that I can evaluate them against my 
needs/wants. I'll be doing the surgery later this week (I may wait until the 
weekend), so I'll be dowloading ISO's within the next few days. While I 
don't mind tinkering with things here and there, I'd like most things to just 
work right out of the box. I just don't want to spend 3 - 5 days doing 
nothing but compiling until KDE is up and running.
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