It probably depends what you need. Livna is the showcase repo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livna http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livna, along with the fedora rep

It probably depends what you need. Livna is the showcase repo: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livna http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livna, along with the fedora repos themselves. Also, FreshRPMs is good. http://freshrpms.net/ http://freshrpms.net/ I'm using Open Office, Gimp, vim, and Netbeans. For any Java to work, I downloaded Sun's Java (not included in the repo). Music and video is just play for me, so I haven't chased that too much. This laptop was originally just a way to test stuff in Vista. On a whim, I made it a dual-boot with fedora. Now it's my main dev rig. There are still issues that would drive "mainstream" users batty, though, like having to fuss around to get wifi working, not returning properly after hibernating, etc.