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So I went with Debian/Stable (Sarge)…
NVIDIA driver (both deb package and original installer) with vanilla kernel 2.6.12.3 makes my laptop freeze after a while => no Twinview/Xinerama yet :-(((
Got backports for the Mono stack from Fromorer of #debian.de fame and for Xorg from Nobse (another debian dev).
Following this howto to get Sun Java 5 installed. Lets see if this works out..

Yesterday evening I installed Debian 3.1 (sarge) from the business card iso going the netinstall way, on my Dell Laptop, because of various reasons.
The day before I had updated OpenOffice.org from 1.1.3 to 1.1.4 and on Gentoo it took over 6 hours !!!
Another reason was, that I wanted to give another distro a try, since I had used Gentoo for over 2 years now on my server and laptop, and really got sick of the compiling.
So Meebey of smuxi fame, who happens to be Debian developer, advised me to use Debian (obvious, eh?). But since I wanted the current Mono Stack, I had to use the Debian Unstable.
Bad luck, because this is in the phase of being upgraded to gcc4 => breakage. :/
Got Xfree86 (no xorg :/), Gnome and Xchat running. Problems with Firefox and Mono, and Gaim is said to be broken.
More to follow… (maybe I have to go back to Debian Testing with Backports of mono)

Just finished downloading the South African TV show Go-Open (sponsored by Canonical, who also sponsor Ubuntu Linux) and watching episode 1.

Pretty fun, but not much new stuff, when you are already keeping up to date with the world of free and open source software.

Btw: you need AAC support to hear the audio.