Distro of Choice for Desktop and Server

After writing more than 100 entries on Linux, I thought I write something about my personal choice of Linux Distribution

I have tested OpenSuse 10.3, Fedora 9, Ubuntu, I finally settled on Linux Mint. Its elegance and layout really "wow" me after I have installed and never look back. Besides, it has a whole load of software from Debian/Ubuntu Repository. I like the compilation of codecs which I can install with a click on the icon "Install Multimedia Codecs"

As for the Server OS of choice, I think CentOS is still my choice. No special reasons except that I just got used to Redhat Distro since I started using Redhat 6 on our servers.

Tin Hat Distro

Tin Hat is a Linux distribution derived from hardened Gentoo which aims to provide a very secure, stable and fast Desktop environment that lives purely in RAM................

Tin Hat requires about 4 GB to run comfortably, 3 GB for the tmpfs root file system, and 1 GB for paging. If one wants to further reintroduce Gentoo's portage system and/or the kernel source tree, 4GB becomes a very tight squeeze.

For more information, go to Tin Hat

SliTaz - one fo the smallest LINUX Distribution < 30MB

SliTaz similar to Puppy LINUX loads entirely on the RAM and is very fast

SliTaz: (http://www.slitaz.org/en/)
SliTaz Installation wiki Page: (http://wiki.slitaz.org/doku.php?id=lang:en:langstart)