I voted for CentOS, it same RHEL. Using easy and powerful

Currently using Debian Etch. Nice and stable.

If I need anything more up to date (not that Etch is ancient) then I load it into VMWare.

Although I started out with Berkley UNIX in the 70's, I have used several distro's of *NIX since then. At present, I use a rehash of Ubuntu 8.04 known as Ultimate Edition 1.8. I like the distro for the intergration of compiz/beryl and the eye-candy helps me sell folks on Linux. Personally,anything I can do to forward the cause of open source is a good thing. Many of my customers (I run a small computer shop) have never heard of Linux or have no idea that it has advanced so much. The distro I run helps me convert people to open source. They see it and like it. Ubuntu has my vote.

linux from scratch (as I am building it now....)

I like Debian. I use Lenny and it has been 95% stable (the 5% unstable I love because then I learn what to do when something goes wrong, experience is worth more than training you take) I want to try Slackware (see how the time honored distro treats me) and Gentoo (learn how to do everything myself like compile)
BTW: from what I saw in this forum, the no-flaming is going really well

Hi

I use PCLinuxOS as distro 1 and Puppy Linux as 2.

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I love SuSE mainly because of the ease of use.

I started with Redhat. Tried Fedora, SuSE and Ubunto.

Finally I reloaded SuSE because I loved it the most.

Now I just installed OpenSUSE 11 few days ago and it is incredible.

It gave me the choice to easily install either KDE (3 & 4) or GNOME or both and dynamically switch between them.