"Community-oriented" distros

[Joel Konkle-Parker <jjk3@msstate.edu>]

With the recent launch of Red Hat's Fedora, it seems to me that we now 
have three major options for people looking for a community-based Linux 
distribution for x86: Debian, Gentoo, and Fedora.

I'm currently using Woody, mostly because of the community aspect (just 
"feels" right to me) and the package stability system. I'm a home user 
with a new Dell laptop and no real reason to have an enterprise-quality 
product except my own peace of mind.

So my questions:

1. Are there other community-based distributions out there that would be 
worth a look?

2. Which would be best for my needs? Are there other philosophical 
differences between them that I should know about (besides Gentoo's 
source-only approach)?

Thanks for the opinions, guys.


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