All of the various distro have their good and bad points. One question that hasn't been asked. Are you doing this for fun or to learn for potential employment?
If your reason is the former then go for whatever looks good, if the latter then grab a RedHat Enterprise 4 or SuSe. The reason? These are the distros that are preferred and supported by the major hardware players e.g. IBM HP/Compaq etc. and if you have specifc skills in these products you may find you are looked on more favorably during a job application.
We use RHEL4 on all our current generation servers with the older ones running RH9, RH73 & RH62. There are a total of 138 of them which is why we try to keep to a standard. Knoppix is great as a rescue/fixup system because it is fast and easy.
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