Hey there - returning to linux

[RedRed]

Hey guys

I have been away form Linux for a bit and want to return.

Any recommendations for a revisit? Its going o my older PC, A Nforce AMD 18000 with 1 GB ram, about 280 gb of storage on 3 ide drives (it was my samba media store before).

I have played with
Ubunto (liked it)
Mandrake (liked it too)
and an ancient RH. ?7

can you suggest a Gnome which should install without too much pain? I was going to go Ubunto again (I quite like the debian accesibility), but I read here before that it wasnt well maintained.....

Regards
RedRed

[KeiFront]

The new ubuntu (6.0.6) has been released today still have to download it, still running the old version on my laptop and I love it.

[Sasq]

not tried Ubuntu, though some quite like it.
I much prefer SuSE, I think it really comes down to personal choice between the two.

[TnT]

I'm a very happy Gentoo user, but in your case I'd just go with Ubuntu.

[Jessterw]

I was going to go Ubunto again (I quite like the debian accesibility), but I read here before that it wasnt well maintained.....

I personally, like Sasq, prefer SUSE.

You've probably read that Ubunto is having a time keeping their included packages maintained. This is due to a limited number of package maintainers and, well, a glut of packages.

[Marshmallowman]

Yeah I am a fan of suse as well, it really has progressed well

My old favourite Mandrake, now called Mandriva has gone to the dogs quite a bit, they even fire the guy who originally created the distro

[Jessterw]

Used to be a Mandrake user myself, but even before the merger with Connectiva it was starting to become something less than usable.

[Haig]

Same here. Switched over to Suse ever since Mandriva 2005 came out.

[Sasq]

*hack* *cough* not that I had any help with that

[Haig]