[JavaBrewer]

I tried both Ubuntu and OpenSUSE as recently as 4 months ago. Both installed without a problem though you will have to "fiddle" to get media file support for things like mp3. I had some real problems with Ubuntu Feisty Fawn, v 7.0.4 I believe, as Mozilla would routinely crash the OS when I encountered sites with Flash (youtube). I recently bumped to the newer version and have not seen the problem since. Both distributions come with OpenOffice which I also use on my XP box. Excellent stuff.