[arderydd]

SO I finially got around to building my self a gaming machine since i moved and can't decide on what linux distro to use. I have a windows partition to support alot of my hardware and games I can't get running under wine or Cedega, and I'm looking for something new AND good.
I've used Gentoo, debian, redhat, mandrake (now mandrivia), suse, ubuntu, puppy, dyne:bolic, Dabbled with Arch, Fedora

So what's some distros you guys have tried out that are good and not on my list. I was thinking of giving white box a try aswell.

[elija]

PC Linux OS which keeps getting named as a challenger for Ubuntu
And of course the veritable slackware

[daark.child]

Whitebox is more or less the same as Red Hat (its built from the sources of RHEL like CentOS, Scientific etc). If you want a challenge, try one of the BSDs and Solaris. Linux From Scratch is another one I would recommend if you want to learn how Linux distros are built.

[devils casper]

Check out crux too.

[darkrose0510]

For something a little differant try Core, you get a basic system, and download and compile anything else you want.

[daark.child]

Originally Posted by darkrose0510

For something a little differant try Core, you get a basic system, and download and compile anything else you want.

Interesting, I'd never heard of that one until today. I will check it out at some point.

[kavalakala]

Yes, really interesting. Core sounds like extended (and extendable) BusyBox And quite a challenge to build (and maintain) own desktop system without a package manager.

I would also recommend BSD since it differs greatly from Linuxes and has the essence of true UNIX ;>

[redpenguin850]

I'm Looking at trying Linux Mint on my new Vista Laptop as a secondary OS. I wonder if its any good?

[ozar]

Originally Posted by redpenguin850

I'm Looking at trying Linux Mint on my new Vista Laptop as a secondary OS. I wonder if its any good?

You really have to try it yourself to see if you like it. Some users do and some don't.

Good luck with it.

[redpenguin850]

Originally Posted by ozar

You really have to try it yourself to see if you like it. Some users do and some don't.

Good luck with it.

Thanks. it looks really neat. I allready have it on a vitrual machine on my work computer, its very clean. The community support seems to be excellent, so it looks as if this is my new OS du jour