Dreaming a Little Dream of the Ideal Linux Distro

"It is hard to say what an ideal distro looks like because there are many important niches," noted Slashdot blogger Chris Travers. "What I need as a software developer for my laptop is very different than what I'd want to deploy my software to." For his development laptop, he prefers Fedora. "On the server, though, I would prefer to deploy to a more conservative distro, like Debian Stable or Scientific Linux."

Here in the world of Linux, with hundreds of distributions to choose from, it seems safe to say that there's something for just about everyone.

Of course, that doesn't mean we can't all dream a little. While Linux is famous for its virtually infinite customizability, sometimes we may wish our favorite distro were a little bit different, even if just in some minor way.

What does the ideal Linux distribution look like? That, of course, is in the eye of the beholder, but it's also the topic of a recent Open Ballot over on TuxRadar.

"We want to know if you were king for a day, what combination of components would you pluck out of which distributions to recombine into your perfect operating system?" the TuxRadar team asked.

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