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# 99  
Old 08-31-2008
wow, i was expecting ubuntu to top it, but redhat takes the cake eh?

i think Debian got a respectable enough score, just what I was expecting. Go Debian. Smilie
# 100  
Old 08-31-2008
Some of that depends on the poll audience

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Originally Posted by Wolfclaw
wow, i was expecting ubuntu to top it, but redhat takes the cake eh?

i think Debian got a respectable enough score, just what I was expecting. Go Debian. Smilie
Over at DistroWatch, Ubuntu and PCLinuxOS have dominated polls over the past few years. In business, Red Hat has dominated, and the Red Hat company has done well for several years. Debian is not commercial at all, but is free, both in licensing and in cost.

All three of them are good, solid systems, have a good, solid following. Each has plenty to offer. Which one is best for you or for me, of course, depends on our needs and preferences. At the office, I would indeed tend to favor the lines of a Red Hat Enterprise Linux server. Personally, at home, I favor Debian-derived systems. Two of them, sidux and antiX, happen to be my current favorites, but there are a great many really good Debian based distributions, both free and non free and also commercial and non commercial.
# 101  
Old 09-04-2008
I dual boot Sabyon with Vista on my work laptop and have VM's of ubuntu,gentoo and DSL running on my xp box at home. I realy like sabayon and am now preparing to give slackware a go. I am voting other even though sbayon is based on gentoo (emerge is great)
# 102  
Old 09-18-2008
I will have to admit that Fedora is my favorite, but I use Ubuntu because it Just Works (tm) on any hardware that I throw at it. That is important to me as I install Linux for lots of friends.
# 103  
Old 09-18-2008
Gentoo. If it moves, compile it.

:-)
# 104  
Old 09-18-2008
Debian is the best Smilie
# 105  
Old 09-23-2008
MySQL

I've been using my Linux for a few months and I've tried different distros searching for a suitable one. When I first installed Mandriva, I was really captured by it! I've chosen it for 3 reasons:
1) it is extremely easy to use especially for people new to Linux. It seems as though Mandriva is saying to you: just work and don't be worried! I'll take care of everything;
2)It's really beautiful! Just have a look!
3) it cannot be explaied: something within me whispered - That's it!!!
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