Linux Distributions

seero · February 15, 2006

I voted for ubuntu, one of the more stable distributions (the best ?).

I strongly disadvise mandriva :idea:

spacerunner75 · February 16, 2006

Decide what you wanna use your machine for. In my opinion, a binary distribution (like SUSE - brings all you need and is quite esay to install) works great for all Home / Office / Desktop apps. If you build a server, you already know Linux inside-out and better go for a source based distribution.

I run a production server with gentoo. Its online since 3 years now. Easy to remote admin because of gentoo´s package system (emerge...). Yeah to be honest, I love gentoo. You can take a look at http://www.gate8.de/daoc/. I must say this Forum is GERMAN only - sorry. But phpBB is a very commonly used Forum Board and browsing a bit there, you get a clue of the speed of the Gentoo server .

another good speed example is http://www.tam-recordings.com. Everything looks like plain html, but the entire page is actually generated in real time using a patched mambo (php). For the cracks of you guys: the Frontpage needs ~210 SQL queries (cause of multi-langual/translation support).

-.- · February 19, 2006

Has anyone here tried RR-64,which is a Gentoo distro for 64 bit, I installed but have been busy and not played on it much yet, but it looks like a good one and was easy to install. They have a regular 32 bit one i think it just called RR.

Eggman · February 19, 2006

Has anyone here tried RR-64,which is a Gentoo distro for 64 bit, I installed but have been busy and not played on it much yet, but it looks like a good one and was easy to install. They have a regular 32 bit one i think it just called RR.

I found a LiveDVD of that and tried to install it with the included installer... Destroyed Windows. The only difference between Gentoo RR and regular Gentoo is that comes with built-in drivers for an outdated (the creator implied this) file system called RR.

Colonel · March 24, 2006

Fedora! Fedora! Fedora!

I'm for Fedora all the way. My first Linux was Red Hat 7 and I've stuck with Red Hat (and now Fedora) ever since. :happymac:

Alessandro17 · April 2, 2006

Kanotix is my favorite. It is so good that is almost boring :offtopic:

I mean, absolutely everything works.

McMuffin · April 15, 2006

I personally love Slackware, I use it as a desktop and on my server. Very clean, structured distro.

amdprophet · April 15, 2006

I think I've used just about every distro now and my favourites are Gentoo, Slackware, and Ubuntu. Ubuntu is great for the average home user. You pop the CD in, go through a very easy install process, and then use Synaptic/apt-get to download/install all of the software you would like. Gentoo is probably my favourite distro because you start from scratch and install only what you need. You can use your own build flags and optimizers so your Gentoo linux install is customized for your systems hardware and software needs. Slackware is another great distrobution. I've used it on many of my servers, and will continue to use it for servers. It's stability is great, and compatibility with many different package types is outstanding.

alicheusz · April 17, 2006

Has anyone here tried RR-64,which is a Gentoo distro for 64 bit, I installed but have been busy and not played on it much yet, but it looks like a good one and was easy to install. They have a regular 32 bit one i think it just called RR.

I try this distro it looks that it has awesome installer but on my Intell EMT64 this was little slowly

My favorite is Ubuntu it has easiest package management system.

Look how more painful is installation XGL on gentoo than on Ubuntu

aldimeneira · April 24, 2006

After many distros tested my favorite is SuSE. Now I'm using SuSE Linux 10.0 as main and only native OS (plus VMware Server) in my only computer. It's fine for the wait to get a Mac.

FreeBSD is not a Linux distro.

paulmer2003 · May 1, 2006

Gentoo is by FAR the best Linux distro

RobNyc · May 5, 2006

PCLinuxOS

MCNLive

Phaeronix

Kororaa

Frugalware

Fedora Core 5

Ubuntu

www.distrowatch.com is your friend :poster_oops:

RobNyc · May 19, 2006

With my X1600 Pro, only Ubuntu Dapper seems to work 100% . I'm sure Gentoo > Phaeronix > Kororaa > VLOS will work too but don't have time to do Gentoo stuff.

BRP · May 21, 2006

Gentoo is by FAR the best Linux distro

Amen

Not that I'd use it for EVERYTHING (like if I had to get a server up and running in 30 minutes sharp), but I love lots of what it does... and lots of what will be added in the future! I've even filled a 3GB partition complete with all of KDE 3.2 before on a 500MHz P3 (yay for external hard drives!). But of course, you don't want to end up saying something silly that ends up on funroll-loops.org (which is not to be considered a serious criticism, by the way).

Mebster · June 12, 2006

I've never used Linux in my life :shock: (weird i hear you say). Well almost never. I think I clicked something on a mate’s pc once while he was running Linux :poster_spam:

I'm not a computer . I mean I don't do programming and blah blah blah (not sure what the blah could be) like the rest of you. So is there any reason for me (an average user) to ever want to use it? For example I’m new to OSX also but at the least it cool and fun. Linux just looks BORING!!!

Am I wrong?

BRP · June 12, 2006

Yeah, you haven't seen Xgl.

RobNyc · June 18, 2006

I like FC5 but doesnt work good with my x1600 pro, so I must say VLOS(Gentoo) and Ubuntu which works best with my card. I haven't tried Debian sid yet so dont know, but I'll install Parsix (Debian sid distro) and see. waiting on pclinuxos latest release, pending on frugalware, and thats it

Phaeronix fan still

paulmer2003 · June 22, 2006

Pretty sad Ubuntu got 1st. Pitiful.

I'm not a computer graduated.gif . I mean I don't do programming and blah blah blah (not sure what the blah could be) like the rest of you. So is there any reason for me (an average user) to ever want to use it? For example I’m new to OSX also but at the least it cool and fun. Linux just looks BORING!!!

Am I wrong?

1. Customibility.

2. Absolutely no restrictions what so ever.

Too many to list..

And if you think linux looks boring take a look at these (my screenshots):

http://www.paulmer2003.com/new.xfce4.png

http://www.paulmer2003.com/xfce4.png

http://www.paulmer2003.com/xchat5.png

http://www.paulmer2003.com/kde-SS.png

http://www.paulmer2003.com/aterm0.png

http://www.paulmer2003.com/bitchx.png

http://www.paulmer2003.com/bx.n.aterm.png

http://www.paulmer2003.com/xfce.png

http://www.paulmer2003.com/screenshots/windowdeath.png

http://www.paulmer2003.com/screenshots/term5.png

http://www.paulmer2003.com/screenshots/shadow.png

http://www.paulmer2003.com/screenshots/drag.png

RobNyc · July 5, 2006

Gentoo Linux for PC GEeks that are always on their pc 24/7 or require OPTIONS Like no other.

VLOS, Phaeronix shortcuts for Gentoo.

Ubuntu for Normal Linux Users trying to have a life =] like me

BRP · July 5, 2006

You can use Gentoo just fine without watching {censored} scroll by for hours, or updating ever again for that matter :happymac:

RobNyc · July 6, 2006

You can use Gentoo just fine without watching {censored} scroll by for hours, or updating ever again for that matter

BUt the point of Gentoo is being on top of everything :blush:

if u dont want to be bragging so much now theres finally heaven UBUNTU

bwhsh8r · July 8, 2006

I voted suse 10.1 because i had great success with it as a n00b but kubuntu is also extremely good and they will cend you cds at no charge including s&h witch is nice. Good luck choosing as most are quite close. SuSe is more full featured out of the box and comes with everything you may need right out of the box.

bwhsh8r

Weebs · July 14, 2006

Ubuntu Linux hands down. I've used tons of Linux Distro's, but I only felt at home when using Ubuntu.

DFX · July 16, 2006

Gentoo, becose of Portage and disponible in 64BIT since the AMD64 era!

Before I used Mandrake and Redhat but the "ONE Layer for depandance only [seem to be repared]" was a pain and I have banned RPM from my world!

I use Slackware on many server but tend to remplace it with Gentoo....

BRP · July 20, 2006

BUt the point of Gentoo is being on top of everything
if u dont want to be bragging so much now theres finally heaven UBUNTU

B.S. The point of Gentoo is that it's source-based. And there's nothing essentially better about Ubuntu that Debian hasn't already done (and remember! I hate Debian! It's on a very short list of things that I actually hate!).

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