| Lately, I centered on OpenSuSE 10.2 as the OS of choice on my home systems. I've been pretty happy with it - it does what I want it to do (a couple decades in IT helps ;).
But right now, I'm living away from my home/wife/network and so I have an opportunity to reevaluate my OS choice (y'see, I was working at IBM at the time, and the project I was on was using OpenSuSE, so it was an easy choice). The place I'm in now is a SPARC/POWER shop, and no, I ain't about to try Solaris x86 for my home machine.
What I'm looking for, oh UFies, is an OS recommendation. I'll worry about hardware support (within bounds of reason), but I'm looking to end up with a home theater gig. I looked at Ubuntu FF a few months back, but wasn't impressed (cute, but too lax on the security front by default and I didn't feel like hardening it). OpenSuSE takes a fair bit of smacking around to soften enough for home use (dead opposite of Ubuntu), and I've never quite managed to make that corporate feel go away in either Gnome or KDE. M$ is flat out of the question (OEM Vista barfed on my latest gig forty-five minutes into the "let me connect to the network and check for updates again" cycle - and Acer's recovery DVD didn't).
Oh, one other thing - Recommendations for a 1GB pendrive OS - I've checked out DSL (Damn Small Linux) and it's pretty amazing. Anybody tried anything else, got relevant experience they'd like to share? |
