linuxfan66 Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 What's your favourite Linux/UNIX distro? Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46593-favourite-linuxunix-distro/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
asap18 Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Kubuntu or Gentoo Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46593-favourite-linuxunix-distro/#findComment-333568 Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamBeutler Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Ubuntu Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46593-favourite-linuxunix-distro/#findComment-333571 Share on other sites More sharing options...
eightballbill Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Archlinux. It just works and IMHO has the best package manager: Pacman! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46593-favourite-linuxunix-distro/#findComment-333576 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nadeo Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Kubuntu or Suse Linux. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46593-favourite-linuxunix-distro/#findComment-333643 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferret-Simpson Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Slackware, Tiger or Solaris 8 - It's a tie. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46593-favourite-linuxunix-distro/#findComment-333665 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dice7 Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Kubuntu I like it allot Dice Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46593-favourite-linuxunix-distro/#findComment-333695 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nargilem Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 1. Ubuntu 2. Arch Linux 3. Gentoo Cheers Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46593-favourite-linuxunix-distro/#findComment-333910 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alicheusz Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 I would say Sabayon is pretty hot these days, great out of box experience. My favorite is openSuse. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46593-favourite-linuxunix-distro/#findComment-333952 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ictinike Posted March 27, 2007 Share Posted March 27, 2007 Mac OS X is unix distro, kinda. So that. Or Ubuntu Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46593-favourite-linuxunix-distro/#findComment-334050 Share on other sites More sharing options...
subramanyam Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 Sabayon rocks !! Nothing close to it at present... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46593-favourite-linuxunix-distro/#findComment-334496 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ferret-Simpson Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 Sabayon rocks? Interesting, I've tried it on three (or was it four?) completely different machines and have yet to find one it'll boot on. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46593-favourite-linuxunix-distro/#findComment-334597 Share on other sites More sharing options...
JP. Posted March 28, 2007 Share Posted March 28, 2007 Gentoo Gentoo Gentoo! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46593-favourite-linuxunix-distro/#findComment-334752 Share on other sites More sharing options...
alicheusz Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Sabayon rocks? Interesting, I've tried it on three (or was it four?) completely different machines and have yet to find one it'll boot on. I have some problem with boot on some Linux distros, you may try change your PATA or SATA settings in boot, I have only ATA dive and I hose Standard Mode (earlier was Enchenced something) and hose PATA only (earlier was SATA+PATA) with these settings my distros don't get confused where is my drive and boot normally, including Gentoo based ones Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46593-favourite-linuxunix-distro/#findComment-335317 Share on other sites More sharing options...
borisbadenov Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Ubuntu I have played with many of the different flavours and I always found myself going back to SuSE, maybe because that was the one I started out on but it felt intuitive for me. But as with Linux boxes that use RPM's, I would always end up in dependency hell. I really liked the "emerge" system with Gentoo and used this system for a long time but it would take so long whenever I would have to rebuild a system and tune it perfectly to my system. But this was my mainstay system for a long time. Then, on a rebuild, I used Ubuntu Live-CD and I saw how it used the synaptic system to update. Wow. so easy. NO more dependency hell. Hurrah. So now Ubuntu is my Linux distro of choice. I like how it takes just 15-20 to install (base packages) Very nice system though Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46593-favourite-linuxunix-distro/#findComment-335415 Share on other sites More sharing options...
sandmanfvrga Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 OS X. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46593-favourite-linuxunix-distro/#findComment-335511 Share on other sites More sharing options...
OSXtasy Posted March 29, 2007 Share Posted March 29, 2007 Suse 1st, then ubuntu..... Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46593-favourite-linuxunix-distro/#findComment-335714 Share on other sites More sharing options...
KaiNeR Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 if we are talking aobut all unix distro's then my top 3 are as follows OS X Gentoo SME 7 (Centos) Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46593-favourite-linuxunix-distro/#findComment-338861 Share on other sites More sharing options...
silvercool Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 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 Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46593-favourite-linuxunix-distro/#findComment-339083 Share on other sites More sharing options...
zoomie Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 I can't decide between Gentoo or FreeBSD...I love both! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46593-favourite-linuxunix-distro/#findComment-339106 Share on other sites More sharing options...
xplizid Posted April 3, 2007 Share Posted April 3, 2007 id have to go with suse, however ubuntu great as well. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46593-favourite-linuxunix-distro/#findComment-339221 Share on other sites More sharing options...
bwhsh8r Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 HP-UX rofl, well pc-bsd Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46593-favourite-linuxunix-distro/#findComment-339412 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Colonel Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 Ubuntu! Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46593-favourite-linuxunix-distro/#findComment-339438 Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 2007 Mac OS X... lol it's actually ubuntu. Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46593-favourite-linuxunix-distro/#findComment-339447 Share on other sites More sharing options...
(MoC) Posted April 4, 2007 Share Posted April 4, 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). Link to comment https://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/46593-favourite-linuxunix-distro/#findComment-339983 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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