OT: Linux

[Taqwus]

Depends, depends.

I tend to like SuSE, but that's partly because with a 56K modem and a dislike of tracking down missing dependencies myself I benefit from their "pack a kitchen sink into a DVD" approach. Plus, they actually take the time to write pretty good manuals and installers. *shrug* IIRC, they still offer single-CD 'live filesystem' ISO images for download.

Debian has a reputation for a good package / dependency system, and if you have broadband it's apparently quite capable of grabbing dependencies for you should you want to update a package or download a new one. There's a distribution called Gentoo which also reportedly has a decent packaging system, IIRC one based on BSD's 'port' tree system.