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Ramzi's hairy chest
10-01-2006, 01:13 AM
What's your Linux distro of choice and what do you like about it?
(You're only given these choices. Yes, there are many other Linux distributions out there; too many for this poll.)
bird603568
10-01-2006, 02:10 AM
clearly its slackware
sean89
10-01-2006, 02:13 AM
I have been using Ubuntu lately for servers but I used to use Debian (esentially ubuntu).
wastern
10-01-2006, 02:19 AM
No Suse?
I'm using Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop right now. Right now its kind of a toss up between that and Ubuntu, but SLED wins for now due to the 0 config XGL
sean89
10-01-2006, 02:28 AM
No Suse?
I'm using Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop right now. Right now its kind of a toss up between that and Ubuntu, but SLED wins for now due to the 0 config XGL
I was thinking of trying out SUSE instead of Ubuntu for my next desktop. Do you suggest it for ubuntu?
phstpok
10-01-2006, 04:21 AM
I'm dual booting SLED10.1 and DreamLinux2.01. The xgl eye-candy in SLED is ok, but only runs on gnome on my box, whereas DreamLinux (debian, based on morphix) comes with xgl on xfce desktop. I now use DL as my everyday os, and I'm getting rid of the Suse for Ubuntu6.06. I'll use this to play around and see if I can get xgl/beryl/emerald/compiz or whatever running on kde.
Thequestion
10-01-2006, 04:28 AM
I have to say ubuntu because I'm too much of a newb at Linux to get into other distros yet.
I rock and jock SLED. Ubuntu wasn't very good IMO and I saw SUSE in action (Mainly working MP3's out of the box), that really caught my attention.
cypherxero
10-01-2006, 04:45 AM
Screw Linux, BSD all the way. I use OpenBSD 3.9. :)
RootKitShield.com
10-01-2006, 04:57 AM
I like debian because apt-get always has what I need and it just works...
cypherxero
10-01-2006, 04:58 AM
I like debian because apt-get always has what I need and it just works...
OpenBSD has that. It's called "pkg_add".
These are the available packages:
http://www.openbsd.org/3.9_packages/i386.html
Famicoman
10-01-2006, 05:02 AM
Becasue most security auditing tools I use are built upon knoppix, I have to pick it.
cypherxero
10-01-2006, 05:07 AM
Becasue most security auditing tools I use are built upon knoppix, I have to pick it.
Are you afraid to compile source code?
bird603568
10-01-2006, 05:08 AM
compiling from source is fun because you can enable options that arent enabled by default and vice versa
Famicoman
10-01-2006, 05:09 AM
No, I just don't want to have to.
cypherxero
10-01-2006, 05:25 AM
No, I just don't want to have to.
It's not that difficult. Plus, as bird said, you can edit the Makefiles to include/remove options for compiling. I have a hard time understanding how you use security auditing tools if you don't like/don't know how to compile code.
Famicoman
10-01-2006, 05:32 AM
I can compile code, its just the fact that for prodding a network for a little entertainment gets me in a happiness zone, and the fact that I love live Cds. Security auditing software is just a plus, and I happen to like the look / feel / stability of knoppix. I just don't have the need to compile my own code as of now. I'm sure that I will; probobly sooner than I think, but at this very moment, I don't do enough with Linux, Unix, or BSD to require me going through it.
phatlip12
10-01-2006, 05:39 AM
Im not a big Linux guy personally. I messed around with Knoppix before though. I just put Parallels on my Macbook so Im thinking about giving Ubuntu a spin.
cypherxero
10-01-2006, 05:41 AM
Im not a big Linux guy personally. I messed around with Knoppix before though. I just put Parallels on my Macbook so Im thinking about giving Ubuntu a spin.
You should open the terminal in Mac OSX. You can get a *nix shell to interface with the Operating System. Most people that use Macs don't know about this feature, and don't realize they're using a UNIX system.
fubar
10-01-2006, 12:30 PM
In my first days of linux (several years ago), my first linux distro was Slackware 5.5, then I tryes some other Stuff like SuSE 6.4, RedHat, and went to Fedora (1, 2, 3). Now i hat installed Ubuntu/Debian for 2 Years and I am happy :)
wastern
10-01-2006, 02:59 PM
I was thinking of trying out SUSE instead of Ubuntu for my next desktop. Do you suggest it for ubuntu?
Its kind of a toss up right now for me between SLED and Ubuntu. And I'm talking about SLED, from Novell, not OpenSUSE.
I like Ubuntu for is ease of use, its community, and the fact that its easy to get people who know next to nothing about linux up and running on it without a lot of work
With SLED, I like that its different. It isn't the cookie cutter Gnome or KDE, they really made it their own. Also, if your system supports XGL you can turn it on just by clicking a check box. No messing with installing all the packages and editing and adding config files like with Ubuntu...in SLED, it just works. I also think it has a cleaner interface and overall just seems more polished.
You can try them both and see which you prefer. The great thing about Linux is it will cost you nothing to try it out. I can't even count the number of distros I've tried
g33k0ft3ch
10-01-2006, 03:14 PM
Well my distro's of choice are Ubuntu, Red Hat, Fedora and FreeBSD.
eastdockeryf
10-01-2006, 06:10 PM
I just got Fedora Core 5 about a week ago... I'm a linux newb so I haven't been able to set much up, and it gets frustrating trying to compile and install stuff. I'm making it though. Though I would be using Windows if I hadn't given up pirating software, and my pirated copies of Windows hadn't crapped out on me... I needed to learn linux anyway... so meh...
jdhore
10-01-2006, 09:50 PM
My favorite distro is Debian because it's pretty good, pretty easy to use, net install is awesome and apt-get is the shit! but i also use Knoppix (KnoppMyth) and FreeBSD (which was missing from the poll)
Slackware, what else? "Once you go Slack you never go back" as they say.
Where's the Sabayon love?
Where's the Sabayon love?
That's Gentoo isn't it?
I could of guessed, ubuntu #1
automan
10-02-2006, 03:14 PM
That's Gentoo isn't it?
indeed it is. i have been a gentoo'er for years now and have loved every minute of it. the problem (and good thing) with gentoo has always been the installation process. even though it was my first linux distro, it is definitely not for the faint of heart aka total linux newb. once you get it installed, you are greeted with a bash prompt. it only has what you give it.
but all that has just changed. i set up a new box with sabayon 2 days ago and the install was nothing like my first gentoo install. my first gentoo install took about 2 days on an AMD K6-2 450MHz comp with 640MB RAM. using the Sabayon installer it took about an hour and a half. i only had to input a few things at the beginning and it did everything else itself... and it has full xgl support.
gentoo's package management system is based on the BSD ports system which is similar to apt-get in debian meaning that if i want something, i just 'emerge' it. and since i use fluxbox as a window manager, it makes it very easy to use any program from any other WM. say i want to use Gnome's Nautilus. i would just fire up a console and type:
emerge nautilus
portage would find all the packages i need to install, compile them for my system specs, and install them all. then say i really like KDE's disk burning software. i would fire up that console again and type:
emerge k3b
it would do exactly the same thing... find all the packages needed to run that app, download them all, compile them all for MY system specs, and install them.
heathenx
10-02-2006, 04:11 PM
what the hell. did you leave off suse for a reason? little more popular than arch linux don't ya think?
anyway, opensue is my main ax on my desktop while ubuntu is used for my laptop.
Bobezus
10-02-2006, 10:59 PM
I would have chosen openSuse if it werent for their broken package manager (i tried 10.1). It's unbearably slooooow. Other than that, it has a really professional feel, it's more polished. Ubuntu, my main distro, on the otherhand, is very reliable in terms of performance, but when it comes to graphics department and overall look, it leaves so much to be desired. Thankfully everything is customizable, that's why I'm over for performance and I'm sticking to Ubuntu.
fulltangninja
10-02-2006, 11:04 PM
I'm using Ubuntu, but have been wanting to try Suse Linux 10 because it looks all Snazzy :)
I guess I like Ubuntu because it's almost easy to use..still complicated, but there is an awesome community behind it.
chadr6
10-03-2006, 02:59 AM
I use Ubuntu. Occasionally I'll use Slackware for a change though.
Ramzi's hairy chest
10-03-2006, 06:01 AM
what the hell. did you leave off suse for a reason? little more popular than arch linux don't ya think?
Read the initial post. The maximum choices for polls are 10 choices. I picked Linux distros randomly... from out of my hairy ass.
That is all.
moggers87
10-05-2006, 02:28 PM
I've used Fedora Core for the past year and a bit (that's 3, 4 and 5) with the livna.org repo :P
I would love to use Gentoo, but I don't have 40 hours in my life where I'm at home and not using my computer...
indeed it is. i have been a gentoo'er for years now and have loved every minute of it. the problem (and good thing) with gentoo has always been the installation process. even though it was my first linux distro, it is definitely not for the faint of heart aka total linux newb. once you get it installed, you are greeted with a bash prompt. it only has what you give it.
but all that has just changed. i set up a new box with sabayon 2 days ago and the install was nothing like my first gentoo install. my first gentoo install took about 2 days on an AMD K6-2 450MHz comp with 640MB RAM. using the Sabayon installer it took about an hour and a half. i only had to input a few things at the beginning and it did everything else itself... and it has full xgl support.
gentoo's package management system is based on the BSD ports system which is similar to apt-get in debian meaning that if i want something, i just 'emerge' it. and since i use fluxbox as a window manager, it makes it very easy to use any program from any other WM. say i want to use Gnome's Nautilus. i would just fire up a console and type:
emerge nautilus
portage would find all the packages i need to install, compile them for my system specs, and install them all. then say i really like KDE's disk burning software. i would fire up that console again and type:
emerge k3b
it would do exactly the same thing... find all the packages needed to run that app, download them all, compile them all for MY system specs, and install them.
Gentoo is a cool concept, but it's not for me. I ran it for 5 or 6 months, and it was a nightmare trying to keep my system from falling apart. It seemed like every other update or emerge, Portage would wreak a rediculous amount of havoc on my system, and force me to troll the Gentoo forum in search of answers for insanely trivial things. I've been much happier with Slackware, since I have nearly the same level of configurability and speed, and an increased amount of stability.
automan
10-06-2006, 12:03 AM
you guys should check out sabayon linux. it is gentoo, but installs in about the same time as windows after you start the process. i installed it on my wife's computer and it has turned out really well. plus it supports all the cool new nvidia effects.
just so you all know, i'm not one of those gentoo fanboys. i just like gentoo the most. i also run a freebsd firewall, have a zenwalk linux guest terminal, and a windows XP computer. at work i support windows 2003 servers and Red Hat servers.
i have noticed alot of 'fanboyism' on this BB, but just attribute that to the perceived average age of users here.
channi
10-06-2006, 08:35 AM
I really like debian for my server system. For my workstations at home I'm using ubuntu - because there's also this nice thing called "apt" :D
Also I had a try with gentoo - but it was a little bit too tricky for me I think. I'll try it in my next holidays again.
senshi
10-06-2006, 08:50 AM
Ubuntu because the last version everything on my laptop worked out of the box. But I'll try anything. I keep a couple of linux ISOs on my eternal hard drive, updating them when a new version comes out. I really want a spare pc so I can try other distros without having the trouble of using only one computer.
synack
10-07-2006, 02:40 PM
Yes I clicked other.
Yes I know it is a Linux Distro poll.
But for some reason, the daemons are no longer just in my head - read *BSD.
synack
thegreatmula
10-13-2006, 12:56 AM
Easiest to maintain, install packages. It just works... feels less bloated than any other. IMOP
I like fedora's package manager yum though... think it is the best around... yum is god of finding dependencies....
mckinleysh
10-13-2006, 03:20 AM
Grr, so you are saying that the package manager makes your decision? :p
That's cool. :D
Mine is SuSE, just becuase that is what I have always used. And I like the package manager. :p
njdube
10-14-2006, 12:23 PM
For people having problems with SUSE, don't judge it from 10.1 Give 10.0 a try, it's much better.
10.1 sucks like a Las Vegas whore and is about as stable as a one legged nun. If 10.1 was a child it would have been 12 months premature.
_sorrow_
10-17-2006, 08:15 AM
I voted Debian, which honestly makes no sense for me to pick, and yet i love it. I have a dual-boot laptop, and until recently, ATI did not release the drivers for my (motherboard mated) video card, and my wireless card (like almost every other wireless card) did not easily run on linux.
After arguing with Debian for a while, and getting no-where, i still somehow fell in love with it, even though it did nothing special for me that any other distro i've tried has (or has not) done... :rolleyes:
volcanomike
10-17-2006, 11:05 AM
No matter what i seem to do i always come back to slackware. I tried out ubuntu for awhile it was too much... not a fan of automatic updates, they seemed to break my install. So i realized slack just released version 11 so i burned it and did a fresh install ive got everything configured perfectly and i couldnt be happier. I made the mistake of replacing my slackware install with the ubuntu. I dont know what the hell i was thinking.
Wyrmwood
10-28-2006, 11:40 PM
What a shocker - Slackware... Tried everything on the list (and more) except for ArchLinux. Fedora Core is a close second - but of course I've only been playing around for a week now. Even tried SLS (Softlanding Linux System) just for kicks, since that's the origin of slack. BSD style just rocks over System V... Easier to chop up, season, cook and eat.
cmoser
11-15-2006, 07:31 AM
I have SuSe, Fedora Core, and Kubuntu to chose from on this box and even though Ubuntu has some stellar qualities I use SuSe most often. It just has what I need.
kowgod
11-16-2006, 09:48 PM
I know it's not linux, but nothing beats OpenBSD for servers. Secure. Functional. Secure. Secure.
Did I mention secure?
Sure, it requires a bit of know how. But, this ain't your grandma's *nix distro...
synack
11-22-2006, 05:40 AM
I know it's not linux, but nothing beats OpenBSD for servers. Secure. Functional. Secure. Secure.
Did I mention secure?
Sup,
Word. Without starting a flame war, I think that Packet Filter and IPFILTER are much more sound than iptables. OpenSUSE? Hell, my mum uses that now. Last time my younger brother complained about a virus, I formatted the hdd and sat him in front of ubuntu, now he has got the hang of it and can install third party software without a problem (being a medical student and all, psyche!).
Was thinking of installing dynebolic, but then remembered the linux binary compat' that I use with my BSD systems and added another disc to the distro collection.
synack.
jdhore
11-22-2006, 04:28 PM
i used to (up until this week) be a Debian whore...i always thought Ubuntu was extremely noobish...then my HD died and i had to start doing everything i needed to do in an Ubuntu live CD...what i now love about Ubuntu is about 2 weeks ago i installed my PCMCIA wifi card in Debian and it took me like 4hrs of work to get it working...just for the hell of it, i stuck it in when i was using this Ubuntu live CD and it was immediately recognized and working...the only thing i still don't like about Ubuntu and probably will never like is that i can't su up or just do a straight login as root...i don't like to have to type sudo in front of every command i want to do.
synack
11-22-2006, 09:10 PM
i used to (up until this week) be a Debian whore...i always thought Ubuntu was extremely noobish......the only thing i still don't like about Ubuntu and probably will never like is that i can't su up or just do a straight login as root..
As you pointed out, ubuntu is noobish. I think the developers' had this in mind
during it's conception and design. Lots of noobs would end up in the proverbial if they run programs as root and chernobyl thier system.
synack.
smokeycrew37@yahoo.com
11-23-2006, 12:29 AM
i have been toying around with Linux Auditor (which has been very usefull to me for wireless networks) that was recommended to me by a friend of mine Charles, who by the way wrote the book "Red Hat Linux 6.0 Administration Tools" if anyone was curious to give it a look.
miniK
01-03-2007, 08:59 PM
Yellow Dog Linux
sugarsickness
01-03-2007, 10:37 PM
i used to (up until this week) be a Debian whore...i always thought Ubuntu was extremely noobish...then my HD died and i had to start doing everything i needed to do in an Ubuntu live CD...what i now love about Ubuntu is about 2 weeks ago i installed my PCMCIA wifi card in Debian and it took me like 4hrs of work to get it working...just for the hell of it, i stuck it in when i was using this Ubuntu live CD and it was immediately recognized and working...the only thing i still don't like about Ubuntu and probably will never like is that i can't su up or just do a straight login as root...i don't like to have to type sudo in front of every command i want to do.The sudo 'timer' runs out at like fifteen minutes and you can change it so that one sudo will let you do everything as root for that terminal instance. You probably could, I imagine, create a root user but I havent tried or read about that.
I think Ubuntu is a solid distro and doing nice things for linux. The only thing I dont like are the people that call it names or make fun of people who use it simply because they dont ahve to spend 4 hours just to install a base system. looooooooooooooool
openSUSE gave me a lot of headaches. First of all, I have a flat screen and because opensuse (10.2 was what i was running) uses a graphical installer once I selected Install from the opening menu with the penguins falling or whatever my screen went black and I had to hook up a CRT monitor to install it and then hook up my flatscreen and use a TTY/VC thing to edit the sync ranges in my xorg.conf so i could use my flatscreen. Ubuntu livecd does not do this to me. Not to mention Yast was slow and lame. I also had to mess with my innernet connestion after installing it. Nothing big, I just had to go into yast (I think) and find the palce with that information and mess with that... but I use dhcp with a standard ethernet connection so I thought that was odd. And there was some issue with gaim not allowing me to connect to MSN (because it uses SSL) and told me to install gnutsl (I tihnk was the package name) but it was already installed. S:
Kubuntu is one I liked but only if I do a server install and set up X and kde-core, the default Kubuntu setup has too much crap I will just never use.
Currently I run ArchLinux and love it. It's been great and I havent had any real trouble with it and the package manager is great.
jdhore
01-03-2007, 11:14 PM
The sudo 'timer' runs out at like fifteen minutes and you can change it so that one sudo will let you do everything as root for that terminal instance. You probably could, I imagine, create a root user but I havent tried or read about that.
well...from that, i figured out how to be in a terminal session the whole time as root using sudo (the command is: sudo -s), also, it's very easy to create a root acct too...just type passwd and it will ask you for your current pw and a new root pw and you can now su.
noonebutme
01-06-2007, 04:09 AM
Easiest to maintain, install packages. It just works... feels less bloated than any other. IMOP
I like fedora's package manager yum though... think it is the best around... yum is god of finding dependencies....
You've never tried Gentoo then have you? Portage is amazing. Plus you compile what you want and only what you want so it's not going to be bloated.
comhcinc
02-05-2007, 10:23 PM
as stated elsewhere i recently got back from iraq after about two years "out of it" the only machine i have at my disposal is an old p3 running 2000 pro. i decide to throw linux on this thing and after looking at all the new shiny distros out there i think i'll give Kubuntu a try. anyone think this is a bad choice? got a better selection? and anyone know if kubuntu will support more ram on this old mother board?
wildey
02-06-2007, 04:32 AM
i am new to Linux and have been wanting to learn how to use it well, so i am playing around with Ubuntu Ultimate(just has a butt load of apps installed) so far i am liking it alot more then windows.
techknowmama
04-13-2007, 12:46 PM
I'm using Ubuntu, but have been wanting to try Suse Linux 10 because it looks all Snazzy :)
I guess I like Ubuntu because it's almost easy to use..still complicated, but there is an awesome community behind it.
I have been using Suse for a couple years, love it
I tryed to install Ubuntu on my laptop a while back and could not get the it to play well with the ATI graphics, may give it another whirl now I have a new desktop with Nvida graphics
chuckles
04-15-2007, 04:46 AM
I am a BSD user myself, but since NetBSD (http://www.NetBSD.org) is not on the list, I'll have to go with Slackware (http://www.slackware.com).
-chuckles-
g33k0ft3ch
04-15-2007, 07:12 AM
Sorry about this late post, but I use multiple distros. I use Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Free BDS and sometimes Red Hat.
Sadly I must only choose one.
kungfujesus
05-21-2007, 01:35 AM
Gentoo Linux FTW. Long live the legacy of Enoch.
TSSaloic
05-21-2007, 10:50 PM
The 2007 Final edition has just been released.
masherscf
05-22-2007, 12:30 AM
The 2007 Final edition has just been released.
Go back to work TSS... before you catch my post count.
Schalken
06-03-2007, 10:43 AM
Uhm, where is SUSE?
_sorrow_
08-26-2007, 11:01 AM
Uhm, where is SUSE?
I agree.
But as of 3 minutes ago, i'm pretty confident i'll stick with my original choice of Debian being my distro of choice. I finally got my wireless card working on OpenSuSE, and exceitedly started updating things... and something went wrong. Don't know what, but upon reboot my X server kept crashing & it really doesn't seem like something that would be an easy fix.
Considering the fact that i only just got the internet working on it, i don't really have anything important on that partition, and have decided its high-time to get back onto Debian with all of its wonderful Apt-Get capabilities. Not sure how or why SuSE died on me - but i know that it did die almost immediately after i finally got it up and running, and i wasn't very happy about it :cool:
adssse
09-16-2007, 04:11 AM
Right now I am dual booting Ubuntu with Windows. I also really like Damn Small Linux.
bpepple
09-23-2007, 05:03 PM
Fedora Linux
mavrevMatt
09-24-2007, 04:05 AM
Ubuntu, currently on Feisty, going to move to Gutsy when it hits beta. I've done quite a few tweaks and modifications to it and whatnot but at it's core, it's still Ubuntu.
itsmillertime529
09-27-2007, 09:22 AM
I dual boot Fedora and Ubuntu
tommyfullington
11-05-2007, 01:45 AM
Debian is my distro of choice. It's the one I've been using for the past two years and I haven't gone back. I used to be a slackware fan... but the slow development and crappy package system sent me the way of Debian. I don't really like "bloat" distros and as an advanced user debian is just perfect for me. Why haven't I switched to ubuntu or some other spin off?? I simply don't have too... as long as your linux knowledge is there you should have no problem running a distro like Debian. I honestly thank the developers of Debian every night before I go to sleep haha... j/k but I hope to walk in their shoes someday.
Brundlefly
11-07-2007, 09:06 AM
I use Ubuntu as my only OS.
I was a slave to Win-doze for years. Making the switch was kinda scary, I won't lie. My initial Linux experience was SuSe a few years ago, before it was OpenSuSe. It was confusing to me and didn't seem to work at all. Sadly, I stereotyped all Linux flavors because of this and went back to Windows without trying anything else. It was just that bad of an experience for me. Ultimately, I came into a situation a year or so ago where my Windows took a dump and I didn't have the install disk. Desperate, I burned the Ubuntu liveCD from a friend's comp and installed it. As if by magic, it just worked. Perfectly. 4 hours later, after reading the community forums and learning about my new OS, I was hooked. It's easy, you can do virtually ANYTHING with it, and it simply, works. I've tried a few other flavors, but nothing impresses me like Ubuntu.
I read posts about people who like other flavors just because MP3 or whatever worked right at install. It makes me kinda sad, honestly. No big deal.... take 15 minutes and install all the features you want. Surely people understand the reasons why Ubuntu doesn't work with MP3 and DVD support wight "out of the box," right?
Any distro that uses apt is my friend.
No other package management system is as elegant and user friendly as apt :)
debian for work servers
ubuntu for my own servers
Even compiling programs is easy in debian/ubuntu, with auto apt..
apt-get install auto-apt; auto-apt update; auto-apt run ./configure
and debian will install any libary requiered by the configure script, now that's smooth!
simon27
11-11-2007, 06:26 AM
Ubuntu is currently where it is at. It is a great desktop environment and good change from windows.
I have though always had a soft spot for knoppix so it gets my vote.
I also like BackTrack (http://www.remote-exploit.org/backtrack.html)
georgia_tech_swagger
01-26-2008, 05:41 AM
Any distro that uses apt is my friend.
No other package management system is as elegant and user friendly as apt :)
debian for work servers
ubuntu for my own servers
Even compiling programs is easy in debian/ubuntu, with auto apt..
apt-get install auto-apt; auto-apt update; auto-apt run ./configure
and debian will install any libary requiered by the configure script, now that's smooth!
Haven't tried portage have you?
computoman
02-01-2008, 11:49 PM
I have been using Ubuntu lately for servers but I used to use Debian (esentially ubuntu).
ubuntu is essentially debian, not the other way around.
computoman
02-01-2008, 11:55 PM
I do not use any specific distro, although I do use debian based distro's them mostly on older systems. To me there are mainly three basic distros: slackware, gnu/debian, and red hat. Everything else is just a clone. I started out with slackware, but use redhat and gnu/debian based sitros the most..
linuxfiend
04-22-2008, 05:42 AM
Are there distributions other than Gentoo? Hmm. . .
dr-nix
04-22-2008, 06:31 PM
I started off using Slackware but switched to Debian due to some local (linux) guys recomending it. Basicly that was my distro of choice for a long time until Gentoo came along, i tried that and loved it. However the deal with having to compile everything got old pretty fast. So i tried Ubuntu because i heard it was based off debian, first time i tried it i was far from impressed but i came back to it a year or so later and they had fixed all the issues i had with it.
Basicly it's the debian package system that makes it better than gentoo for me.
engrpiman
05-04-2008, 03:22 AM
I use Ubuntu.
I first tried Suse a few years back and that worked ok but I found the lack of help a problem. I then ditched Linux all together and went back to being a windows user. last X-mas I got my self a Sony VAIO notebook and decided to load Ubuntu on it (I made the choice because I know some one else running it and I had a bad experience running Fedora , it would not install. )
All I can say is that I am impressed with Ubuntu and it works. I have even learned enough to recover from the occasional breaking of the x-system. my biggest problem is that I have just enough knowledge to break a system easily and not quite enough to fix it. I have decided to learn how to use the terminal
jglen490
05-06-2008, 03:23 AM
I've tried a few - RedHat, Slack, Suse, Mandrake/driva, some of the BSDs. None worked as well as Kubuntu does right now. There may be others that come along later, but Kubuntu just works for me and gives me a stable platform to do what I want to do. I don't need to do a lot of babysitting. When I want to load some software, Adept goes out, gets it, loads it, and I just use it. The *buntu community is simply great when it comes to questions and ideas for the user.