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| Linux RedHat, Ubuntu, SUSE, Fedora, Debian, Mandriva, Slackware, Gentoo linux, PCLinuxOS. All Linux questions here! |
| View Poll Results: What is your favorite Linux distro? | |||
| Caldera |
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1 | 0.30% |
| Debian |
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36 | 10.75% |
| Gentoo |
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19 | 5.67% |
| Knoppix |
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1 | 0.30% |
| Linspire (formerly Lindows) |
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1 | 0.30% |
| Mandriva (formerly Mandrake) Linux |
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9 | 2.69% |
| Red Hat (incl. Fedora) |
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104 | 31.04% |
| Slackware |
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24 | 7.16% |
| SuSE |
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37 | 11.04% |
| Turbolinux |
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1 | 0.30% |
| Ubuntu |
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81 | 24.18% |
| Vector |
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0 | 0% |
| Other (mention below) |
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21 | 6.27% |
| Voters: 335. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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I've used Mandriva (nee Mandrake) in more modern times, though I started life on Slackware many moons ago. Since I had a variety of PowerPC based machines, Mandriva distros served me well. It always seemed a very clean install, lots of device support, reasonable default application configurations and a good suite of admin tools.
Having said all that, I have just installed a Linux partition on my desktop XP system (partly so I can use all the Linux toys on the Midi soundcards, amplifiers and other hardware plugged into that machine) and I chose Fedora core 5 since I happened to have a DVD around the place (from a magazine) with the latest distribution on there. It did install, though the boot manager didn't work first time. There are a number of things that aren't installed by default, and Fedora seem to have an issue bundling some software, but since it is *so* popular there are a million sites out there to yum from. Quite impressed so far .. |
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slackware!
slackware is my favourite distro, simple, clean, stable, and nice.
If/when i have more time i make a LFS, but I dont have time for that nowadays
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Like someone else said it all depends on what you want to do. I voted for RedHat/Fedora since I am mainly using Fedora Core 6 with Parallels (http://www.parallels.com) on my XP laptop and MacBook black. I also use and like Ubuntu (which is Debian underneath) very much. I also recently installed Debian in it's non-Ubuntized state. All these I have running under Parallels, which still has a lot of work ahead of them, but it's nice to be able to use the same virtual hard drive file on a Mac or a PC.
Damn Small Linux sure is a fun distro. Weighing in at just around 50MB. http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/ I got my feet wet with Yellow Dog Linux for PowerPC. I think they put that dog to sleep though. |
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My bad. I should have clarified that I meant since Apple switched from PowerPC to Intel, Terrasoft no longer has YDL for Intel-based Apple hardware. But that may have been a blessing in disguise according to some articles. Terrasoft does have a healthy offering of products and services, the latest being Yellow Dog Linux for PLAYSTATION®3 : http://www.terrasoftsolutions.com/
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Redhat / Fedora - simply because I got involved with Linux with Redhat 5 when SCO decided to start charging for their OS on a user licence basis. When RH8 was released I bit the bullet and moved my clients servers over and have never looked back. I now have a mix of RHE and Fedora 3 thru 5 out there and a client base that is rapidly moving to Linux on the desktop as well.
I should add that another local S/W shop went with SUSE at about the same time and are as happy with their decision as I am with mine. So different strokes for different folks and we seem to stick with what we are familiar with. |
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I use gentoo on my desktop pc at work and slackware on my sony vaio
both are great, I also tried debian and ubuntu several times, but I've always destroyed the package system I cannot recommend gentoo for older systems, it took me two days to compile gnome + X on a pentium3 500 |
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