http://distrowatch.com/weekly.php?is...080707#feature

"On the distribution front, we have had the pleasure of seeing new
releases from all major Linux makers. *Once again, Mandriva seems to be a
winner here, earning high marks from both the reviewers and the users on
various forums for its 2008.1 release.* Fedora, on the other hand, was
the exact opposite - the distribution's first release under a new
project management has been rated rather poorly by most reviewers, while
it also received a major thumbs down from their KDE users. Ubuntu 8.04
and openSUSE 11.0 were interesting releases which were generally praised
in most reviews, although a part of their user base was somewhat more
critical over some stability problems and bugs. Nevertheless, it is
clear that openSUSE has made huge strides towards improving some of the
aspects of the distributions that were often criticised in the past,
notably the speed of YaST and the system's boot time, while the newly
introduced Zypper has turned out to be a powerful and useful addition to
the existing package management toolkit. *Still, it seems that Mandriva
was the distribution that found the best balance between features and
stability. Despite that, the company continues to struggle as its
flagship product still lacks the mindshare and popularity of the other
three distributions.*"