Which LINUX

[Kevin A Smith <kas@lucent.com>]

I know the answer to this will be obvious to those on this list,
but I wonder what criteria people have used to decide on which
distribution to use...where/for what?

I have debian on a desktop at home, simply a "users" setup. I
now want to setup a laptop (IBM Thinkpad 600) with a development
environment as well as the usual "office like" stuff (StarOffice
I'm presuming) to handle the legacy corporate stuff like M$
documents and presentations.

I could do the debian stuff again, but I wondered if there are
other candidates that I should consider. I chose debian for the
home box at the recommendation of a friend (who actually did most
of the installation for me remotely :).

Kevin