Not to continue the thread, but I can't remember if anyone posted this 
link here... kinda fun little "test" to see which Linux might suit you.

They're slowly adding more distros to it, but the "major" players are in 
there:

http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/

There's other places that are better for more in-depth research, of 
course -- but someone just starting out might like to be pointed to 
something like this.

Nate

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