I use RHEL 4 & 5, Fedora, CentOS 5, Mandriva 2008 & 2009, as well as Ubuntu.

Ubuntu and Mandriva at home for fun and the Red Hat/Cent OS variants at the office.

For anyone that praises Ubuntu... you should take a look at Mandriva 2008 spring or if you like KDE 4 then Mandriva 2009.

I hear all the time how great Ubuntu is and I have to say (after using both Ubuntu and Mandriva) that Mandriva not only has a better set of themes on the Desktop but also that it's tools for just about ANYTHING are not only as good but better in many cases.

The whole Mandrake Control Center is really mature and full featured and the urpmi package management tool is amazingly easy.

Please do not take this as me knocking Ubuntu, I appreciate Ubuntu and it is undoubtedly the most popular distro right now. I just think that many people overlook Mandriva due to past problems and in doing so they lose a goldmine.


Just my $0.02