Saw Donnie Darko last night (for free) at Georgetown Loews. I'm not really sure what to make of the movie. I feel that the writer had a lot of interesting points to make but that these insights lacked a common thread. Perhaps the point of the movie is out there, but I'm just missing it. Though, on the other hand, Billy Collins would probably just tell me to hold the movie "up to the light like a color slide" instead of "beating it with a hose to find out what it really means."
Chu and I also finished up with the innards of the TiVo. (Well almost finished: there's still an CD-DVD audio cable that I need to buy.) But, the matter of which Linux distribution to use is still an open question. Eliminating KnoppMyth based on Rachel's feedback, and dropping Slackware since it's still based on the 2.4 Kernel, I'm left with Fedora, SuSe, and Debian as my top 3. Someone out there must have some words of wisdom on this.
So if people have either (a) an interpretation of Donnie Darko or (2) knowledge of Linux distros, I'd love to hear about it.
Based on package management, I would go with Debian. You'll have to add some non-standard mirrors into your sources.list file to get all the packages that you need. I'm more familiar with Debian than either Fedora or SuSE, but I find Debian to be a very robust platform and apt-get and dpkg to be awesome for package maintenance. If you're going to go with packages from source that aren't available through apt-get, then I don't know how much better Debian would be versus Fedora or SuSE. My vote is for Debian.
Well, after doing some searching, I decided on SuSE because it looked like it had support for a lot of peripherals. I then tried to download the ISO, but the official site didn't have a torrent. So I tried a non-official torrent, but it didn't work. So now, based solely on my familiarity with Fedora, I'm going to try to install that distro. But, if that fails me, I'll go right to Debian (I've already torrented the Debian ISO just in case).
I appreciate your input, and because of your positive feedback, I'll make sure to try Debian one of these days.