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# 113  
Old 11-19-2008
PCLinuxOS2007

That is what I have moved to from first RedHat 7, through to 9, then Mandrake 9 through 9.2, then Suse 9.3 to 10.2, and now PCLinux.
# 114  
Old 11-20-2008
I voted for Ubuntu because it faster and easy to use.
# 115  
Old 11-25-2008
My vote goes to Archlinux.
I have stopped my distro dance because its so fast and snappy.
I started on a Slackware distro that was on linux format around 2002. Talk about starting out on a hard distro. I then bought a Red Had version from the news agent and loved it till they ceased production and continued with Fedora.
I've hopped from Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora and even a couple of the Bsd's.

But Arch is it for me. I'm doing so many more tasks via the cli now, which is the way I like it.

Also, Awesome window manager is the bomb!
# 116  
Old 11-28-2008
Don't know yet

At the moment I'm using OpenBSD on my laptop. The reason I chose OpenBSD is, it ran very nicely on my Mac when I first decided to wet my feet with a true Unix-like OS (not Apple's OS). It's been running pretty nicely overall, but I have come to miss some things I have become accustomed to, like a journaling file system and the ability to load adobe flash content (I can load videos that use flash version 7, but that's about it). Oh, and I don't want to have to compile Java again Smilie

So, I plan on backing up my user files, and installing a different OS. Initially, I was thinking about PC-BSD, and then I was thinking about OpenSolaris, but increasingly, I have been considering Linux.

The main choice of linux distributions for me at the moment is between CentOS and Ubuntu. I'm leaning towards Ubuntu, since apt-get seems to have very good package management capabilities. On the other hand, I remember an incident a while back where a Debian developer screwed up OpenSSL and, well, I found it worrying that something like that could happen.

Last edited by slydog; 11-28-2008 at 12:33 AM..
# 117  
Old 12-02-2008
I voted for Suse because it is very secure and has good support.
# 118  
Old 12-05-2008
I voted Mandriva as a personal favorite as it has a nice mature set of tools in it's MCC (Mandriva Control Center) and has a nice package manager (urpmi). I know many users love synaptic and others but I have really enjoyed urpmi's ease of config and use in the MCC and on the command line.

Also, the OS install GUI is nice as well.

That said, all servers I have administrated in production environments have been RedHat or a RedHat clone.

While RedHat is quite mature I prefer CentOS as it is an exact clone of RedHat and even uses rhel rpm's that they get freely from source repositories from RedHat! This allows the download of updates WITHOUT a subscription cost and allows the distro to remain free. With pure RedHat you must pay for a subscription to get the updates and update/errata notices.
# 119  
Old 12-12-2008
DreamLinux is my favorite distro of Linux.
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