which distro for gettng a job ?

[geek.arnuld]

Once again, it probably doesn't matter. You could use Debian at home and pick up RHEL very quickly in a work environment,

this was exactly what i was upto BUT....

but since you may be competing with someone who knows Red Hat, it wouldn't hurt to be able to put it on your resume.

...BUT..that is the source of problems, though i love Gentoo and Debian. i need to get every edge i can get in getting a job and hence... Fedora/CentOS is the fianlised deal.

Centos is close enough to Red Hat that you could put Red Hat on your resume without lying.

So, yeah CentOS is a good choice.

Actually, Fedora might be better if you want easy access to home entertainment stuff. It comes more fully loaded, and it always seemed to me like part of the idea behind Fedora was to prepare home users to run RHEL.

yes, i will order both CentOS and Fedora.