Best Linux version

In your opinions, what is the best Linux version out there? Redhat, Suse, .....

I appreciate the fedora project. It's supported or promoted or whatever by redhat, so the two are damn near identical with only slight variations.

Slackware is neato too, but it's not for the meak or the timid. It's fine once you get it going, and it is easier to install nowadays than it was a year or two ago so it is up and coming.

I use Fedora. Been using it since Fedora Core 2.

i use fedora dual boot with backtrack

I should add that the reason I like Fedora is because of its every-six-months release schedule, and with this they try to include all the latest and greatest stuff, so you always get to play around with new toys

Everyone here is overwhelmingly saying fedora. Thats interesting because I would have thought there would have at least an ubuntu or two (say that 10 times fast).

I prefer more on debian, because, it doesn't have new driver on my thinkpad x61, so, I use ubuntu, waiting for the lenny release
yes, there is other guide for the driver but I don't have much time for now..

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anyways.. currently i prefer ubuntu actually. fedora is always a good choice, but the fact that there are no fglrx video drivers for f9 (at least there weren't last time i checked) kills it for me as i want to play my winblows games in linux and i can't do that w/o video drivers >.< i like suse as well, but it upsets me that my wifi card isn't supported by the default install as it is with ubuntu and fedora (wmp54g, probably the most common card out there >.<). after monkeying around trying to get the card working with oS11 i gave up and rebooted to ubuntu as it had both my working wifi card and fglrx drivers.
backtrack is sexy as well >.< never had any luck installing it, but its never treated me wrong running as a livecd (haven't tried installing bt3).

lol, That's what I have a Windows machine for

shrug. i have windows / ubuntu / fedora / oS11 all installed atm, but i still dont like having to reboot >.< its nice to have one os / pc that does everything.

what is the hardest linux ever used? I mean not from installation, such as configuring an application. Hmmm. How should I say, for example, which one is hardest? debian or slackware?

I want to be an expert or advance in linux, so which distribution should I choose?

The Kernal

I use Ubuntu and Fedora Core for desktop use. There's a nifty project out Ubuntu Studio, I might try that.

Out of deb and slack, I'd say slackware, but it is getting more user friendly. Gentoo is another one that can tickle your cerebral cortex (your brain) if you are looking for a challenge. Or, you could always take SpooF's idea and be a rock star and build your own from scratch. Get your kernel, optimize it for your system, set up the file system of your choice, make your own kick ass graphical interface. Thats where you start learning a lot.

Or if you've got spare time you could do it Torvalds-style and start with an empty text file and totally code your own operating system. But prepare to lose all your hair if you do that.

linus has hair (O_o)

Haven't you ever thought it kind of looks fake though? It's just so big and swoopy and it never changes.