My workstation at work runs CentOs which is fine, I don’t care of flavor of Linux I run, as long as it is not Windows I am ok. 
Sorry Windows, don’t like you. 
That being said, the only other experience that I have had with CentOs is posted here:
http://kamran.kazempour.ca/blog/2007/03/01/zope-zodb-conflicterror/
Losing my entire project may have been a freak accident but so far, as you will read they are 0/2 by my count.
While configuring my workstation at work we found that while doing the ant full builds or working with Eclipse over X11 the whole machine would lock up; and I mean really lock up. No pings everything is frozen and a hard reset was necessary. Naturally my first thought is that nothing takes down a machine (including the NIC) this hard…. must be hardware. Nope!
After some testing and trail & error we found that Java was halting the machine because of lib conflicts put in my OpenOffice. I installed Java from Sun, the old libs, OpenOffice and anything referencing them were removed, and capped Eclipse memory consumption to 1024 megs. It works just fine now. No more lock ups! It was a weird and I had never seen anything like that.
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