Prior to a the new ALSA release Mint was the only distro that would give me sound on my Toshiba laptop most of the time. Ubuntu didn't detect anything, PCLinuxOS detected the sound card and had the drivers right but no sound no matter what I did.

But right now I am running PCLinuxOS on all of my machines with the 2.6.24.3 kernel. It is lightning fast. I am totally impressed. The live dvd I created 3.6 gb installs in 10 minutes or less depending upon which machine I am installing it on. When the PCLinuxOS development team release the 2008 edition many people are going to be extremely impressed.