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Anthony
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Well, if you want a user-friendly version, try Mandriva.
But I think Red-Hat lets you configure it more through the console.
If you want something that needs insane configuration (e.g. setting up GUI, network interface, sound card, etc), then there's debian
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Novus
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I'm a fan of openSUSE myself. Like Mandriva, openSUSE emphasises integration between components and ease of configuration (through "Yet another Setup Tool" or YaST), at the expense of being a little heavyweight at times (as in eating about 5 GB of disk space for a normal install). Based on my communications with Mandrake users, openSUSE may have a slight edge in ease of hardware setup and integration between e.g. KDE and the distro-specific tools.
openSUSE uses Red Hat's package system instead of Debian's, but has additional features (in YaST) that make the packaging systems roughly equally easy to use.
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Culture20
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A little late, but I know linux heads tend to switch distros for fun, so here are some distros I know:
Gentoo: if you want to learn the why and how of things, start with a stage 1 or 0 install (compile everything!).  Not my distro of choice for a desktop, but awesome for servers
Debian: be careful of using the "stable" branch. it updates so slowly that kernel vulnerabilities take longer to get patched than Micro$oft's. Go unstable if Debian.
Ubuntu: literally Debian unstable, patched to stablility. Less default packages (not the near infinite of debian) because Ubuntu likes to remove "lesser" competing packages: they think Evolution is a better mail client than Thunderbird, so Evo is default from install. Default color theme for X is affectionatly named "baby $#!+ brown". kubuntu and edubuntu offer kde and educational choices.
Fedora: Fun for former RH lovers. I still like Fedora. 
Novell's openSuSE, SLED, SLES: I like SLED now that I have a university license. I put it on my workstation just before the ugly MS/Novell deal reared its head. There are those who would claim that using openSuSE now is akin to making a deal with the devil. I'm keeping my SuSE for now. It's kind of stupid with security. SSH is set up to allow root logons by default, but at least SSH is also firewalled by default.  The real annoying part for SLED is that some essential (for me) packages like Thunderbird don't exist, so I have to either update from openSuSE, or compile my own. At least with Ubuntu the simple choice is eventually there...
Damn Small Linux: If you're putting linux on a _real_ 386, nothing beats it.
Familiar: For HP iPaq handhelds. Happy linux goodness in your pocket. I prefer Opie. Some prefer GPE
openBSD: BSD's not linux, but GNU's Not Unix, so that makes it okay to include here. openBSD's nice for the security paranoid.
and one more thing, has most of the linux GUI's looked like a macs?
or is that something that recently happened? By linux GUI do you mean the GNOME theme that comes installed on Ubuntu? Linux generally runs some x11 implementation, Xfree86 or X.org. As for the "GUI" it depends on the window manager/desktop environment you use (GNOME by default on Ubuntu) and the theme for that environment. (For example, I use fluxbox, which generally looks nothing like Mac OS.)
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