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That said I've never done a checksum in my life, and have had no problems.

Lucky :p

I've had more problems than I've had successes, especially when burning OS's. It's really the worst thing when you have a 40 page paper due the next day, and around 10pm after reformatting you realize that your OS install cd is corrupted :/

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I shouldn't say no problems. The CD I used to burn disc 2 of Fedora was bad, but a checksum on the ISO wouldn't have prevented that anyway ;)

Though yeah, after that bad disc I will be doing a checksum on big downloads from now on :)

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Fedora. Defntiley. I started with Mandrake, but the amount of **** you have to go through because it's not Red Hat is unbelivable. The linux community has standardized on RedHat and Slackware/Debian/Gentoo for power users.

Now that free Red Hat has gone, I expect Fedora to take over, and if not a new distro will probably. However, I want to check out SuSE as I've never really used it, mainly due to my hatred of KDE and love of Gnome :).

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Hmmmm... Is it just me, or has the original poster with the question (tomasarson) disappear after asking? :shifty:

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