I am using UBUNTU, just best

I voted RedHat, but the actual Distro I use consitantly is CentOS, which it RedHat Enterprise basically. For any video applications I use Debian though.

ive never been a huge fan of linux... after discovering freebsd a few years ago, but over the weekend i installed ubuntu 8.04 and i love it for the everyday tasks. so ubuntu gets my vote.

I still have the install discs for 3.1. Sweet OS, and well supported (until SCO/Darl came along).
I had cool KDE panel apps that still haven't been brought up and used (gnome has em all, now. go figger).
SCO should be squashed just for ruining this. Just like MSN should be for wrecking BeOS,
another really delightful concept for its time.

my .067 shekels worth.
-O.

I've used Fedora 3 in the beginning. It got me really interested in Linux. Then some time later some friend told me to install Ubuntu, because it is easy to use and has everything you need. I have also installed Debian on some computers and I learned a lot doing that.

So my first choice is ubuntu. On a machine with less speed and performance I use Debian (with or without GUI).

Greetz,
Javi

Great choice! I would have to agree with you that among binary distributions, Arch has to be the fastest one out there because you configure exactly what you want. Based originally on Slackware and spun off from there, with the creation of pacman and a number of other tools, Arch is a very fast bleeding edge binary distribution. I have it in my collection.

For every day use, though, while I appreciate bleeding edge and I do experiment with many of them, I have found sidux, a cutting edge, Debian Sid based binary distribution, to be the ground that suits my needs best. I call it Debian Sid on steroids and mood stabilizers. The sidux team has come up with ways to tame Debian Sid so that it consistently works, yet have software that is about as up to date as anything you can get other than nightly builds of the code that you are interested in.

There are numerous great distributions out there, and I would not for a second try to criticize anyone else's choices. So many of them are excellent and they are all, of course, based on great free and open software (though some versions, particularly commercial versions, have a lot of non free software in order to meet their own needs and expectations, and that is fine, too, because it represents another choice).

So for me, sidux gets the nod!

Oops, I am surprised that my personal choice corresponds with the majority
(viz. RH Family, CentOS, Fedora).
I really would have expected Ubuntu or Debian or some other "cool" distro to be the top runner.
But maybe we have a little US bias in the forum here?
For me the reason to stick with CentOS or Fedora is because for all the linux boxes at my workplace are RHEL based.
Therefore it reduces possible searches for locations of configuration files drastically for me if I stay within the same distro family with my private Linux stuff likewise.