Hi Yall...
For the last 7 years or so I've been using FreeBSD on servers and Red Hat, later Fedora on my desktops.
Fedora have gotten a lot better the last few years, but still I don't believe it to be a 'beginners distro'.
Fedora is a very good distro, no doubt about that, but you have to know what you're doing, to make it all play nice together.
This year however, I have tried 'TexStar's
PcLinuxOS 2009.1&2 and the
MiniMe flavour 2009.3...
F*ck me! They are GOOD, easy to setup, use/work and play with. Everything works without hazzle and tinkering / fiddleing, leaving me time to play with you guys
Easy Lazarus quickly:1) Install pclos minime 2009.3 { liveCD, weighs in at 298 Mb }
2) In Synaptic, install: Lazarus, it will resolve libgtk-devel, pixbuf for you
3) Install a musicplayer, and turn on your coffee-maker.
4) Start lazarus....
note: It is not the latest and greatest lazarus, but for a 1.st try 0.9.24 will do...
Just my opinion, written on MiniMe 2009.3
Regards Benny