wow, i was expecting ubuntu to top it, but redhat takes the cake eh?

i think Debian got a respectable enough score, just what I was expecting. Go Debian.

Over at DistroWatch, Ubuntu and PCLinuxOS have dominated polls over the past few years. In business, Red Hat has dominated, and the Red Hat company has done well for several years. Debian is not commercial at all, but is free, both in licensing and in cost.

All three of them are good, solid systems, have a good, solid following. Each has plenty to offer. Which one is best for you or for me, of course, depends on our needs and preferences. At the office, I would indeed tend to favor the lines of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux server. Personally, at home, I favor Debian-derived systems. Two of them, sidux and antiX, happen to be my current favorites, but there are a great many really good Debian based distributions, both free and non free and also commercial and non commercial.

I dual boot Sabyon with Vista on my work laptop and have VM's of ubuntu,gentoo and DSL running on my xp box at home. I realy like sabayon and am now preparing to give slackware a go. I am voting other even though sbayon is based on gentoo (emerge is great)