I am going to give Mandrake a try. In the end, I believe the only place this matters is the installation and support. Otherwise all the other software is the same including the windowing managers. Now for the hardware decision. Should I run it with Windows or just by itself?

What are you using Linux for? Is it a web server?

Costas

>Hi, I'm working in Production with SuSE Linux.
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>I haven't tried Mandrake, but I know others, like Red Hat, Conectiva, Turbolinux and Slackware.
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>SuSE is very professional, with a very strong tool named Yast, to easily install, uninstall and refresh packages. Also, with Yast You can configure hardware, configure software (like network or printing services) and other usual admin tasks.
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>The free support from SuSE in the first 60 days is excellent, with responses usually in the same day.
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>Furthermore, the distro include in 6 CD almost 1500 packages of software and (important for me) is available in spanish.
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>I hope that these comments can help You.
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>Sorry for my english (I'm argentinien).
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>Best Regards.