» Thu Aug 26, 2010 3:39 am
Arch might be a good option. Takes work to get it set up, but that does teach you about how everything fits together, and makes the system relatively lightweight (because the only things that get installed are the things you choose to install). Main reasons, though, are that it has a lot of software in its repositories, they avoid tweaking their packages, and being rolling-release means that you can stay completely up to date without having to do re-installs every X months.