Debian, and all these other ones.

Please help me, i would like a free good stable one. what one should i get.

Recomandtoins any one

This is what I did:
http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/
It's a little test that you take. The test then gives you a distro based on what you picked.

I would post back after you completed the test and tell us what distro the test recommended you, because you may get some weird distro that no one has ever heard of. Or even SuSe, which I heard is utter garbage.

Hope I helped.
Or.. If you don't want do that, Ubuntu is very easy for a beginner, I used it for about a week before I had some PC problems (NOT linux related).

Depends on your hardware and competence level.

List your hardware and we can possibly make some suggestions based on that.

Im ready to make the move on one of my systems. I took the test and it gave me,

OpenSuSE
Kubuntu
Ubuntu
Mandriva

I want to put this on my laptop. my specs are

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DISPLAY LCD: 15.4" WSXGA+ TFT LCD Display Max: 1680x1050 Pixels

CPU: (Sckt775)Intel® Core™ 2 Duo E6700 CPU @ 2.66GHz 1066FSB 2x2MB L2 Cache EM64T

MOTHERBOARD: Mobile Intel® 945G & ICH7M Chipset Mainboard

MEMORY: 2GB (2x1GB) PC5300 DDR2-667 SODIMM Memory (Mushkin)

VIDEO CARD: Built-in NVIDIA GeForce Go 8600M GT 512MB Supports up to 1GB Turbo Cache Technology Video

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Im sure this is sufficient but I would like your input.

Thanks.

Stick with ubuntu, because its the easiest for a newb....or pclinux os, as long as your connected to the internet.. i put some distros on a pc with no internet and its frustrating because these disto's usually don't come with packs that have codecs and programs... and if you want to safe some time installing beryl and other fun programs try sabayon linux, or ubuntu ultimate edition

Originally posted by geestar20:

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Im ready to make the move on one of my systems. I took the test and it gave me,

OpenSuSE
Kubuntu
Ubuntu
Mandriva

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forgetting the fact i'm a Mandriva fan, out of those i'd still pick Mandriva, 2008.1 has just been released in fact, i wasn't going to upgrade any of my machines but i have a new Core 2 Duo sat in the box crying out for something to be installed.

i use Mandriva and TinyMe at work, at home it's Mandriva, TinyMe, PCLinuxOS and MiniMe (and WinXP of course).
PCLinuxOS has it's roots in Mandriva, TinyMe is a tiny offshoot of PCLinuxOS, MiniMe is an officially-maintained slim version of the main PCLinuxOS release. All very similar and noob-friendly.

Last time I tried pclinux it was badly broken. It insisted it needed updates, and then failed to connect to the servers. No idea if it has been fixed.. it seems to be going the same way as the deliberately crippled suse.

What's with mandriva and failing to install?? It seems to have something up in the installer.. as in.. broken permissions on a couple of the partitions it makes and locks down. It just seems overly paranoid and complicated to an old timer like me.

Ubuntu is getting more and more bloated, but the latest release is very good (apart from that stupid sudo crap STILL!!)