Best linux distro for cuda development

I would use Arch Linux since it comes with the very latest stuff and you can install CUDA-SDK/everything you need from AUR directly. (Also NVidia driver is directly avaliable in the repository.) But yeah you can use anything if you build up there the environment.

Maybe Fedora also fits the job with the very latest stuff.

i used OpenSuse and it worked pretty smoothly and was easy to set up. extra benefit is OpenSuse is a pretty nice desktop environment w/nice package management tools that doesn't suffer from limited functionality such as ubuntu's over-stripped down-ness (and brown? really?).

on windows now, though, so i can use it for gaming when i'm not developing. but i can say for cuda development opensuse worked great.