"Live Cd's"

used Knoppix, Mepis, Mandrake, and SuSE. I searched for others but I amy have 
overlooked them. In my  "opinion" the 2 best were by far Knoppix and Mepis in 
that order. Next up Mandrake and SuSE. I was most disapointed with SuSE. It 
flat out sucked! 4+ minutes to boot if it booted, to many options, and it 
crashed. I tried all of these distro's on many different types of boxes to 
get a good feel. Mandrake booted after time, but the apps available would not 
have been my first choice. Like no Mozilla for example. It had Konqueror 
only, which I use most often as it starts faster than mozilla, but I would 
have prefered a choice. Mepis was ok, quick boot, lot's of packages 
available, and overall user friendly, but, I still had issues with it 
auto-configuring the correct screen resolutions, on most boxes. I would 
prefer an OS to bot and not be tweaked before I use it. Overall I liked 
Knoppix the best. User friendly, auto-detected every box to the "T" and all 
within 1.5 minutes. My winxp box boots up in 90 seconds as well, but I like 
the Linux packages better. I am using two way different machines here as 
well. My xp box is a 1.8ghz AMD Athalon Compaq w/512mb RAM, and my Linux box 
is an old Compaq w/ Intel PII 450mhz & 64mb RAM. This box has not been 
rebooted in over 60 days, and not once crashed. My xp box has crashed 1 time 
in 2 years however it gets rebooted daily!If linux could only use USB for 
communications (wireless USB nic) I would lose WinXP for good. Although 
unfortunately for me I do still need SQL+ which I believe is only available 
for win clients. I may be wrong and if so correct me!! 
    All in all even though I use SuSE at home, I hated the "Live Eval" cd, but 
Knoppix is still on top for me. Heck wht did you all expect, I hate RH as 
well. I may try Fedora just to see if they did something right....
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