What Linux distribution are you guys using, and why?
What Linux distribution are you guys using, and why?
Last edited by marcel; 13th October 2007 at 20:53.
You voted for other . Did I miss any big/popular distro?The answer is simple --- because it's the best. You're really asking for a holy war
So what is the name of the distro?
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
The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time.
-- Merrick Furst
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.
Last edited by wysota; 13th October 2007 at 22:03.
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.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?
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...
Current Qt projects : QCodeEdit, RotiDeCode
I'm not using Linux, I'm using a real operating system! FreeBSD!
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.
Linux is GNU and GNU = GNU is Not Unix
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.
"The strength of a civilization is not measured by its ability to wage wars, but rather by its ability to prevent them." - Gene Roddenberry
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.
The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time.
-- Merrick Furst
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).
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.
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.
Qt Code:
Rank Distro Pagehits 1 PCLinuxOS 2400 2 Ubuntu 2329 3 openSUSE 1461 4 Fedora 1291 5 Mint 1175 6 Sabayon 1018To copy to clipboard, switch view to plain text mode
Servers (including my home one): Slackware 12 - because it works^TM
Desktop & laptop: Ubuntu 7.10 - because it works mostly out of the box
My first was Mandrake (2002) then SuSE 9.0 and since then I'm using SuSE (now openSUSE).
Yogesh M
http://sparklemedia.sourceforge.net/
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
Is Slackware still preferring 2.4 over 2.6?
And Lilo over Grub ;P
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