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Why Natty Kubuntu instead of Ocelot? It's not even LTS. And besides having a top 5 list of Linux distros and three items on it are basically Ubuntu seems silly. Revised list:

* Ubuntu

* RHEL

* Arch Linux

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I don't know if RHEL should be included. Although the list is of Linux distros, I was thinking that it should be geared toward home users. RHEL is great, but I wouldn't pay for the license (which is actually pretty cheap) when there are many good, free distros out there.

I'm not knocking on RHEL, I'm just cheap

The list has CentOS and mentions Scientific Linux, I thought to generalize them both to RHEL. They are essentially the same anyways.

I was just clarifying. Some benchmarks would be nice for comparison purpose though...another time, another thread. Maybe I'll take the time to set up a dev machine and do some testing myself.

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