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While we're on the topic... The machine I'm on at the moment is dual 
boot Win XP / OpenSuSE 10.2. The XP side is used mostly for audio 
editing and eventually will be used for video editing. The SuSE side 
does almost everything else. I agree that XP (after all the patches are 
in) is about as good as Redmond ever got it and should add that Linux is 
getting there in terms of user friendliness. On the tech side it's 
solid. For a noob it's a challenge and loading A/V codecs remains a weak 
spot... But... SuSE is promising a one click software install wizard 
that takes some of the mystery out of dependencies and such.

In other news: IBM kisses OpenOffice on the lips and plans to become a 
distro site http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/18/technology/18blue.html

OpenSuSE is within two weeks of a new release, learn more here: 
http://en.opensuse.org/Welcome_to_openSUSE.org

Ubuntu should see something new in October... Maybe? Keep an eye on this 
site: http://www.ubuntu.com/

Want to try something different? GNU apps on Open Solaris: 
http://www.gnusolaris.org/gswiki

I've been playing with all three for about six months now and Ubuntu 
(Gnome) is far and away the easiest to get up and running, which is not 
to say completely painless. Playing your first MP3 takes 'a while'. SuSE 
is more a power user version of Linux than Ubuntu and very, very nicely 
integrated with KDE. Nexenta is a great idea waiting to happen - but - 
it's still a work in progress and demands some decent hardware. Figure a 
PIII @ 800 MHz with 512 megs of RAM (or better) lest you be 
disappointed. For those of you interested in keeping the old PII 500 
w/256 megs of RAM alive, Xubuntu is a good match. That is a strength of 
the Ubuntu distros... A variety of flavors to match your hardware and 
strong support for the Gnome desktop. SuSE seems a bit friendlier with 
the KDE desktop and that's fine by me. Very powerful, very tweakable, 
and SuSE 10.2 ships with a login screen called 'Redmond' that looks 
almost like.........

Peter Laws wrote:
> I'm not a Microsoft fan and never have been (I'm a UNIX and network admin by trade), but Windows XP SP2 is pretty darn solid.