Favourite Linux Distibution

What Linux distro do you like? Why?

Personally I like Red Hat. However, my experience is limited to Red Hat and SuSE. I would like to find one with good wireless support. Neither distro will recognize my wireless card.

Well, what do you say?

Don't know what happened. I voted for Mandrake, but it told me I'd already voted (although I hadn't).

I'm using Mandrake here at the office, and I'm going to load Xandros on the family PC. Another nice one is PCLinuxOS. It's based on Mandrake, but adds some multimedia stuff. I've had trouble with it on older machines, but my work PC (1.4 Celeron, 256M ram) runs it ok.

Any of them will beat Windows.

Have you had any luck with wireless cards? I have an internal wireless card and I can't get Red Hat or SuSE to recognize it.

Haven't used wireless, sorry.

I use LFS myself, but prior to that my experience had been with RedHat and Mandrake, both of which served me well. I liked Mandrake better of the two though.

I haven't heard of LSF. What does LSF stand for?

I like and use Red Hat. I wish they would still sell a simple box version. Fedora is a close second, but it is to bleeding edge for novices.

tsargent62, have you tried iwconfig to get your wireless working?

It's been a while, but I pretty sure I have, but to no avail. Maybe I was doing something wrong, I don't know. I've since had to completely reload my laptop, so unfortunately I only have XP on it for now. I'm hoping to have time to load up Linux on a dual boot.

LFS == Linux From Scratch www.linuxfromscratch.org

It's an online and hardcopy book that tells how to build a complete Linux system from source code. I understand that Gentoo is a very similar project.