Quote Originally Posted by stuffdeer
#1) Whats the best Distro of Linux to run?

It varies from person to person; It depends on the applications you want to use on your machine.

Ubuntu is decent but you need to download a few things to support mp3s, videos, pdf files, dvds, etc. Even the popular Fedora Core 5 will not support multimedia out of the box. Ubuntu send you the CDs home for free

Mandriva on the other hand runs everything out of the box but does not have forum support as good as Ubuntu.

Knoppix on the other hand i feel supports a lot more things out of the box than Ubuntu, Mandriva, Ark or Linspire(the ones i've tried). Knoppix is absolute smooth at hardware detection & the forum is good Knoppix is a good HD install I feel as long as u dont try changing it aftr installing it. Frankly for most software there is no need to upgrade to a newer version just coz it is released. This is not Winduhs. As long as your distro is stable with the current version do not bother upgrading just coz it is "the latest version". The latest version for your distro will be whatever comes out of the box for the latest version of the distro. Trying out may or may not spoil the distro but you can never blame Knoppix on HD as it is primarily a Live CD. & It is the Mother of all Live CDs.

There are more than 200 downloadable distros so just define your needs and try out . Thats is what i can safely say we all do.