I know that, it's just that I wasn't thinking clearly at the time. I thought he was asking for the best language and/or IDE. Thus, there is no best distro to use for programming. Fedora Core 5's installation allows you to install packages for software development. However, I didn't like FC5 because of yum; I thought it was too slow. Can you believe this crap? This morning I was removing apps on FC5 that I felt were unnecessary--guess what happend. YUM REMOVED ITSELF AS A DEPENDENCY!