Alessandro17 Posted April 7, 2007 Share Posted April 7, 2007 My favorite distros are: Slackware and Gentoo Why? Well see, now most distros that people have are automated for n00bz and you basically have to go with the preinstaled settings or the small variety of settings in the GUI. In Slackware and Gentoo, the system is very moddable (Modules, Drivers, Kernels, X......) and not n00bified. I have done great things with these distros when I was not able to do this with Mandrake or Linspire or (you get the idea). Actually KDE (and almost everything else) allows plenty of customization in virtually every distro. And besides even very experienced users don't always fancy doing everything manually. I know even experienced developers who go for a distro with good defaults. Else we should assume that the people who develop a distro don't use it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
erbic Posted April 7, 2007 Share Posted April 7, 2007 OS X, obviously... But really, it'd be some variant of Ubuntu. I've got both Ubuntu and Kubuntu in VMware VMs, and I'm trying to decide which I like better. Leaning towards Kubuntu, though. KDE is nice. Although I hate how everything begins with "K" - Konqueror, Konsole, Kaffeine... I could go on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asap18 Posted April 7, 2007 Share Posted April 7, 2007 Well, everything apple begins with i Try out Kbfx and dolphin on kubuntu and you will leave ubuntu behind. (How can you like gnome?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted April 7, 2007 Share Posted April 7, 2007 Actually KDE (and almost everything else) allows plenty of customization in virtually every distro.And besides even very experienced users don't always fancy doing everything manually. I know even experienced developers who go for a distro with good defaults. Else we should assume that the people who develop a distro don't use it. Well, you are right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KTC Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 Solaris 8 !!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Universe_JDJ Posted April 9, 2007 Share Posted April 9, 2007 Ubuntu Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AppleMacintosh Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 Gentoo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FreakyMac Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 MANDRIVA! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linuxfan66 Posted April 10, 2007 Author Share Posted April 10, 2007 HP-UX rofl, well pc-bsd Who cares HP-UX is dinosaur UNIX! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lord_muad_dib Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 gentoo/debian Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Regit Posted April 10, 2007 Share Posted April 10, 2007 Has to be Solaris 10/11... IMO, most advance OS till date with its zone container, dtrace, ZFS, etc. though I had to install Ubuntu64 yesterday to run SAP's Netweaver test drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linuxfan66 Posted April 14, 2007 Author Share Posted April 14, 2007 Mandriva Powerpack (it has it all)Ubuntu (very nice but the.. bugs...) Solaris 10 (sweet-fast-great but complicated at times) Gentoo and SuSE are also nice Mandrivia powerpack costs $$$ by itself. Use Debian or SUSE instead! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
/es Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 GENTOO! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
supernovafan Posted April 14, 2007 Share Posted April 14, 2007 openSUSE. I also like kubuntu and knoppix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
quixos Posted April 22, 2007 Share Posted April 22, 2007 Ackwareslay isway ymay avoritefay istroday, ausecay itway allowsway oneway otay asteway imetay oductivelypray. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
klittl01 Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 Why does everyone love Ubuntu? It is based on Debian, what does it have that debian doesn't? <-- Legit Question Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
track09 Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 Why does everyone love Ubuntu? It is based on Debian, what does it have that debian doesn't? <-- Legit Question Thanks Self configures the X server, unified install, better "home" packages natively installed, great access to it's own respositories, great community, and now, some closed software makes it in, as they realize a little closed code makes an open OS Great. These Opensource only radicals are who leave Linux in the back, as the software world will never include it if it doesn't support the technology closed code has to offer, and that's why FOSS only distros never made it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asap18 Posted April 28, 2007 Share Posted April 28, 2007 LOL, FOSS ditros have never made it.. not Look at Gentoo and Debian, after all Debian is still the oldest surviving GNU/linux distro. REAL linux distros don't put in closed source programs because of license restrictions and the GNU manifesto and beliefs it sets forth. If the community of Linux didn't believe in this policy then we would have had zfs in the kernel a long time ago. After all, you can always install them after. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhsh8r Posted April 29, 2007 Share Posted April 29, 2007 Who cares HP-UX is dinosaur UNIX! exactly and @ webmonkey44 again.... sure mandriva powerpack costs money, but where theyres software for sale theres..... pirates a sail? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pasechnick Posted April 29, 2007 Share Posted April 29, 2007 webmonkey44, we use HP-UX at university on DEC Alphas and it utterly rocks P.S. CDE the best =) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RobNyc Posted April 29, 2007 Share Posted April 29, 2007 Ubuntu Feisty PCLinuxOS Sidux DesktopBSD PCBSD VLOS Sabayon done! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kompakt Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 Gentoo is my fav Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
track09 Posted May 3, 2007 Share Posted May 3, 2007 LOL, FOSS ditros have never made it.. not Look at Gentoo and Debian, after all Debian is still the oldest surviving GNU/linux distro. Yes, because they have such wide desktop market penetration...not. REAL linux distros don't put in closed source programs because of license restrictions and the GNU manifesto and beliefs it sets forth. Yes, and this prevents people from getting proprietary hardware support, thus not switching to linux. If there's a closed source device, there's no reason they need to make the drivers OSS to satisfy the OSS community. But support IS essential. Exactly the hypocritical Linux additude. If the community of Linux didn't believe in this policy then we would have had zfs in the kernel a long time ago. Yes, not a good policy. After all, you can always install them after Oh, because recompiling a kernel to include ZFS support is SOOO easy for avg. joe, NOT. Here we go with "vi/ssh is so easy my dead grandmother can do it" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linuxfan66 Posted May 15, 2007 Author Share Posted May 15, 2007 Debian Etch MEPIS 3.3(NOT later versions) OSX(I don't have a mac and I am NOT going to try OSX86 as it is too legally dubious for me in oz.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R2k. Posted May 15, 2007 Share Posted May 15, 2007 so far i tried red hat and suse... but suse is better to me ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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