Ubuntu

Totally thrilled with Ubuntu. It is this new linux distribution for humans, not geeks. With all the microsoft bashing et al., I still had windows in both my laptops primarily for powerpoint, device drivers, and multitude of apps.

Finally, with the prospect of giving more powerpoint talks gone for the forseeable future, put in ubuntu. And its working like a dream. the most impressive part was, it recognized my flash drive and put in a little browsable icon on my desktop too. No more mount-ing devs. It has this suede image editor almost photoshop-like, called gimp. And also open office2 is a dream. If I ever feel like giving a ppt in life again, I still can. Messenger took a little effort to install, had to get a few libraries for debian distribution, and force install some conflicting libraries. But, the look and feel is terrific and am loving it. All of the apps were available freeware before of course, but this is real nice packaging. So, with redhat in office and ubuntu at home, freebsd seems like history now.