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If you want to stay in the Linux realm, in order: Slackware, Debian.
Gentoo is solid but very much a PIA to set
up/buildallfromscratchevery#$%&ingtime. Slackware is very much like
old-world unix. Debian has a very solid support community but is slow on
the complete system upgrades. You have to run "testing" to get close to
the current stuff that Slackware/RedHat/et al are using. Is that a good
thing? Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

The big advantage to Slackware is it can be pared down to a very tiny
system with nothing in it but exactly what you want. The only
disadvantage to Slack is it has a much smaller community suppport base
than Debian. It's bigger than Gentoo, however :)

To sum up, both Slack and Debian are well suited for multi-purpose
desktop/server setups. Slack is a bit more geared toward servers and
Debian a bit more toward desktops. 

Gentoo would be good if you had a large number of identical machines to
install to. Do one big emerge/install to one machine and then dd the
drive around to the others. Or maybe rsync. Once you get past about 2
machines, Gentoo is way too slow to install with. Needs _fast_ hardware
for all that compilation.

Load 'em all and see which one you like most. That's the most fun of
Linux :)
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