Now that redhat has written early adapters off (after first mangling 
KDE) I'm looking for a new distribution.

I tested KDE and Mandrake a bit

See http://xtronics.com/reference/suse_vs_mandrake.html

But I'm not sold on either one at this point.

What should I look at next for a third KDE friendly distribution?

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