Hi,

I am new here and I really am surprised tht Debian would rate so low. As far as I can see Debian is the 'god of operating systems'.

but then again these are my views. though I would encourage u to try debain once a while.

Thanks and regards,
Vaibhav

I prefer Redhat, it's my all time favourite distro.

I like something that is customizable, that can boot quick and run demanding applications fast. More recently I 've been using slackware 12.1 on the machine I use for graphical cpu intensive apps, rendering 3d vector, etc.

I use ArchLinux (Arch Linux) for desktop and cpu intensive stuff (media file reformating mainly) and Debian for my web/mail server for it's stability.

Good choices- I have only recently started using Arch Linux, It does seem to perform well with cpu intensive applications. And Deb does run alot of applications well.

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.