im using ubuntu right now and been using it for a couple of years. i got used to it and couldn't stand the clunkyness of other OSs anymore.

For the PS3 Stick with PS3 , Linux on PS3 is crap , heck any other OS on Ps3 is crap.

Lol?

Man you will have to forgive me for not immediately getting this. Intentional irony is often lost on me.

okay khuthra , what you need to know about Linux is (i recommend using Ubuntu) that it's light, it loads fast and is only 70 MB (if i remember) , what you also need to know is that its Ad free, so all programs you use are made by other people, and not Microsoft or whatever , that is unless that company provided support for linux (lots of them do now) , another thing like you said is that you can use Windows programs with Wine, any game or anything else can be run with Wine.

its a great OS once you know the basics, i think the only thing that it lacks is a messenger like Windows Live Messenger. it does have Empathy and Pidgin but those are lightweight and not like WLM where you can play games and all that.

Hell I started using Pidgin in Windows after trying it out in Ubuntu....

I forgive you.

Its my experience that a discussion of Linux leads to a discussion of Microsoft Windows and a discussion of Windows often leads to a discussion of Linux.

While I completely agree on the feature lacking Linux on the PS3, for native MKV support its about all you have.  While you can always transcode and set up a Media Server, running a simple Samba server + Mplayer on a Linux distro via the PS3 will always work better.   That is all that I use Linux for on my PS3 (streaming all audio/video formats and playing them via Mplayer).

And Xen, if you are not going to stream them (but say use them from an external HDD, or the like) there is no need to set up a Samba Server.  

Fedora is really nice, probably my favorite with Ubuntu in very close second.