Linux distributions

[marcel]

What Linux distribution are you guys using, and why?

[jacek]

and why?

The answer is simple --- because it's the best. You're really asking for a holy war.

[marcel]

The answer is simple --- because it's the best. You're really asking for a holy war

You voted for other . Did I miss any big/popular distro?
So what is the name of the distro?

[Gopala Krishna]

Yeah jacek, but this is also a nice chance to know some of goodies of different distros..
Whatever it is, i use kubuntu on my main system and recently installed yoper on my old 900 MHz pc. Yoper really is fast and good(10 mins install with all basic tools in one cd) . :-)
As far as kubuntu is concerned there should be many more people to post about it

[wysota]

You missed PLD that Jacek uses. And yes, you are asking for a distro war. Oh, and your choice of distros is really weird No LFS? No Ubuntu but Kubuntu present? No Redhat (be it Enterprise or an old installation of RH 9-)? What about other Debian flavours and non-debian Distros?

Oh, forgot to argument my vote... Debian because it's very stable and very secure and very selfmaintaining for servers and Mandriva, because it was the first distro I managed to install and I didn't have a reason to uninstall it. Sometimes I also use LFS, but I decided not to vote for "other", as I haven't booted it for over a year.

[marcel]

Oh, and your choice of distros is really weird No LFS? No Ubuntu but Kubuntu present? No Redhat (be it Enterprise or an old installation of RH 9-)? What about other Debian flavours and non-debian Distros?

It was a hard choice, yes, but mostly because the poll can have a max of 10 options. I tried to choose only "veteran" distributions. And yes, I should have mentioned Ubuntu too.

[fullmetalcoder]

I tried them all since I first booted a live CD and I'm currently using Frugalware (Slackware derived) and Zenwalk (Other) because they are able to kick the living shit out of my low end PC which has lagged behind for a couple of years already... It may change when I get a new computer but its I guess I'll wait for KDE 4 to be released so I've got plenty of time left to make a choice...

[Brandybuck]

I'm not using Linux, I'm using a real operating system! FreeBSD!

[marcel]

Come on... I admit that FreeBSD is one of the best but the poll was about Linux.
Anyway since you mentioned a Unix, I think Solaris kicks the asses of all BSDs out there.

[wysota]

Linux is GNU and GNU = GNU is Not Unix

[Michiel]

Gentoo! Because it's one of the few distro's that works for/with me. Because of Portage / use-flags. Because of the excellent Gentoo community.

[Gopala Krishna]

Is it possible to use two different linux distros on the same system along with win-xp ? Someone told me that though it might be possible, its likely to decrease the performance of system!
I want to try gentoo without spoiling my stable kubuntu(feisty) installation.

[shmerl]

Linux is GNU and GNU = GNU is Not Unix

It doesn't change the fact that Linux inherits practically all of its roots from Unix, since it was modeled after Minix And Linux is not simply GNU. It was born out of cooperation between GNU and Linus, but since then it incorporated a whole bunch of different sub-projects such as Gnome, KDE, X.org etc. So it's far from just GNU anymore.

I like Debian, because of their spirit and the fact that they aren't controlled by any corporation. Out of open Unixes I like OpenSolaris (which was recently frozen by Oracle, but reborn by community as Illumos/OpenIndiana).

[MTK358]

Also, Linux is not GNU. GNU's kernel is called the HURD and it's still unfinished. But since Linux, like GNU, are buth Unixes, they dropped in Linux instead of the HURD and called it GNU/Linux.

Some Linux distros have a HURD edition, such as Debian GNU/Hurd and ArchHurd.

[GreyGeek]

You voted for other . Did I miss any big/popular distro?
So what is the name of the distro?

Just a FEW!. The distro I use is PCLinuxOS 2008 MiniMe.

Visiting distrowatch.com would give you a list of those distros that folks query the most. You missed Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, Mint and Sabayon.

Rank Distro           Pagehits
1  	PCLinuxOS      2400
2 	Ubuntu 	         2329
3 	openSUSE       1461
4 	Fedora 	         1291
5 	Mint                 1175
6 	Sabayon          1018

Rank Distro           Pagehits
1  	PCLinuxOS      2400
2 	Ubuntu 	         2329
3 	openSUSE       1461
4 	Fedora 	         1291
5 	Mint                 1175
6 	Sabayon          1018

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[przemoc]

Servers (including my home one): Slackware 12 - because it works^TM
Desktop & laptop: Ubuntu 7.10 - because it works mostly out of the box

[yogeshm02]

My first was Mandrake (2002) then SuSE 9.0 and since then I'm using SuSE (now openSUSE).

[lack]

first.. does it really matter?

i used zenwalk once - slackware derivative i suppose, lightning fast!
and now for development, openSUSE 10.3. why? coz it came shipped with all the tools (and Qt) in one dvd, i don't have to search repos anymore.

about drivers, IMO it's always an adventure with linux

[ComaWhite]

Is Slackware still preferring 2.4 over 2.6?
And Lilo over Grub ;P