Linux "distribution" census

[R I Feigenblatt]

Okay.
Time to see which end of the egg you open first, heretic dog! :-)
Herewith this thread starts a census of which Linux distribution(s)
you use and/or have installed.

Q1. Please give full name(s) and version(s) and/or date(s).
	From whence cometh thy holy writ? The Net? A CD-ROM?
	Perchance a mongrel of thine own hand from multiple sources?
Q2. What are the strengths and weaknesses of the various
	distributions you have tried?
Q3. Are these factors strongly dependent on your CS background
	and/or hardware base?

Until "Consumer Reports" starts doing its job, it's up to us!
Me first.

A1. I have tried (a) Softlanding Linux System (SLS) version 1.02
	    and   (b) Yggdrasil "Plug-and-Play" Fall 1994,
    both via purchased CDs.	
A2. > In SLS the "selection" utility (plain tty mouse cut & paste)
	worked, in Ygg it did not. Phooey!
    > Having written sysgen scripts for SLS, I liked the quick
	start of Ygg, but I disliked 	having to sit and type manually
	when running as user "install"(?) under Ygg. 	The Ygg people
	should allow you to store your answers to their installation
	script 	on a floppy, whose drive you can name, to automate
	reinstallation. (Oh, I suppose 	you've never lost your
	hard disk, have you?)
    > SLS and Ygg both let you install various amounts of software.
	Ygg includes a nice (but highly underpublicized) utility to
	migrate user-defined filelists from the CD to the HD, t
	speed things up. But better yet would be a daemon which
	migrated files semi-permanently depending on user access
	history 	and user-specified trade-off parameters. See my
	discussion on the all-but-silent Yggdrasil mailing list:
		yggdrasil-users run by 	Majordomo at yggdrasil.com
    > I could get my Metro-Link Metro-X X11.5 Version 1.0.1
	Motif Developer/Runtime 	software, sold as compatible
	with my SLS, to run under my Ygg.	 (I was Tcl'ed pink.)
    > I like Ygg better, perhaps because it is a year younger.
A3. > Given an infinite hard disk, the CD-resident file issue
	would be moot. I hate sysadmin stuff (does anyone like it?)
	and I guess I should start looking at Net archives to see
	what tools have emerged.

Now its your turn.
Ron