[wellylug] Distro of choice

[Nick Jensen]

OK, here's a topic to get the tongues wagging. I'm looking for a new distro 
to try out, and I'm looking for advice. Basically, I'm a RedHat man - we had 
RedHat 7.3 on the machines I used at uni, and since they handed out copies 
for free that was what I installed at home. Since then I've tended to stick 
with what I know, and therefore my most distro has been Fedora Core 1. This 
suited me quite well because, although I'm not quite a newbie, I have to 
admit that most of the technical topics that pass through this list are well 
over my head. I'm also a windows developer by trade (gotta go where the work 
is, I'm afraid), so the nice GUI is very familiar.
At home my Linux machine is quite slow (a Frankenstein's monster built up 
from freebies from all over the place), and I would like a distro that 
doesn't tax it too heavily. I'm about ready to move away from the GUI - the 
first thing I do when I boot up is open a Terminal anyway.
I've notice during my lurking that we seem to have some die-hard Debian fans 
here, and some Gentoo fans as well. Mandrake certainly sounds appealing - if 
a bit too much like what I already have. And I don't think I'm ready for 
Slackware just yet!
So tell me - what do you recommend?

    Nick

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