With so many different flavors of UNIX and Linux available in the world, choosing the best one for yourself, your family, or for your organization can be such an overwhelming and rather difficult decision to make!

If you were a salesman and you had to decide the best UNIX/Linux distro for each of your individual customers based on how it was going to be used, which would you generally recommend for the following applications (you don't have to answer all of them, just the one's that you are sure of ):

1. Home
2. Home Office
3. Small Businesses (under 400 employees)
4. Medium-Sized Businesses (400-2.000 employees)
5. Large Businesses & Enterprises (over 2,000 employees)
6. Small Nonprofit Organizations
7. Large Nonprofit Organizations
8. Education (Grade School)
9. Higher Education
10. Healthcare Institution
11. Government Agency
12. Military
13. High-End Desktop
14. Mid-Range Desktop
15. Low-End Desktop
16. HTPC (Home Theatre)
17. High-End Notebook
18. Mid-Range Notebook
19. Low-End Notebook
20. Tablet PC
21. Sub-Notebook Computer
22. Pocket PC/Smartphone
23. Palmpilot/Smartphone
24. XBox
25. Playstation 2/3
26. High-End Workstation
27. Mid-Range Workstation
28. Low-End Workstation
29. Application Server
30. Audio/Video Server
31. Chat Server
32. FTP Server
33. IRC Server
34. Mail Server
35. News Server
36. Proxy Server
37. Telnet Server
38. Web Server
39. Beginner
40. Intermediate User
41. Advanced User
42. Expert User
43. Rich Customer ($$$)
44. Value-Minded Customer
45. Budget-Minded Customer
46. Student (Grade School)
47. Higher Education Student
48. Office User
49. Internet User
50. Light Gamer
51. Heavy Gamer
52. Movie/Music Lover
53. Multimedia Content Creator
54. CAD User
55. Programmer
56. Hacker
57. Do-It-All User
58. BEST All-Around UNIX/Linux Distro
59. WORST All-Around UNIX/Linux Distro

Whew! That's a lot of different applications! I think I pretty much covered them all. If I happened to have missed anything or something just does not make sense to you, feel free to post a suggestion and I might edit this list.

This post is a rule violation (and borderline spam). Closed.