I have had to use Linux a lot in the last month at work, I have forgotten how much I like it as an OS. I have had 3 Red Hat Enterprise Servers running flat out for a couple of weeks.... no crashes, no hiccups, no lockups, no blue screens of death.

As I have already lamented when trying to find a replacement for RH9, I have found that I am disappointed in the mainstream distro's - they are trying to be everything to everyone. I am a minimalist and don't want a 3 GB base install. So I have reverted back to Slackware.

I learnt Linux on Slackware. I love it! You can still build a full-functioning box with a decent toolset from a single CD. So my primary Linux box is now Slackware 10.1 with no XWindows - pure command line :-) and for my dual-boot machine I have gone with the slick GUI of SuSe.