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View Poll Results: Distribution of the Year
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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23 |
0.99% |
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Fedora
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350 |
15.09% |
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Mandrakelinux
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235 |
10.13% |
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Slackware
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449 |
19.36% |
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Suse
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235 |
10.13% |
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Debian
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250 |
10.78% |
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Knoppix
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43 |
1.85% |
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Gentoo
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314 |
13.54% |
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DamnSmallLinux
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7 |
0.30% |
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MEPIS
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96 |
4.14% |
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LFS
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13 |
0.56% |
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Ubuntu
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176 |
7.59% |
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Yoper
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32 |
1.38% |
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Xandros
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27 |
1.16% |
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Linspire
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17 |
0.73% |
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Arch
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26 |
1.12% |
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Conectiva
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7 |
0.30% |
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Amigo
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2 |
0.09% |
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CentOS
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3 |
0.13% |
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PClinuxOS
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14 |
0.60% |
12-31-2004, 12:53 PM
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Registered: Nov 2003
Location: Toronto, Canada
Distribution: Gentoo AMD64
Posts: 374
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Gentoo first with Mandrake and Suse as a close second. More Mandrake then Suse. I like the free iso factor.
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12-31-2004, 01:17 PM
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#32
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Mar 2004
Location: Syracuse, NY
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 7
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Fedora Core 3
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12-31-2004, 01:18 PM
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#33
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Member
Registered: Aug 2003
Location: California
Distribution: Ubuntu
Posts: 172
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Debian Debian Debian. Alot of the new distros(ie. Ubuntu) making headlines are based upon the rock-solid Debian. Plus with the new Debian-Installer this distro keeps getting better and better!  |
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12-31-2004, 01:41 PM
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#34
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Registered: Apr 2004
Location: queens , nyc
Distribution: Slackware , Ubuntu
Posts: 349
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UBUNTU
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12-31-2004, 01:48 PM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2002
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 49
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Fedora Core 3!!!
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12-31-2004, 02:50 PM
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#36
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Feb 2003
Location: Maryland
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 7,756
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The One, The Only.............Slackware
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12-31-2004, 03:11 PM
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#37
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Member
Registered: Apr 2003
Location: USA
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 55
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Gentoo is the best. Last year I voted Slack, but Gentoo is so much cooler. Emerge 4 LIFE.
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12-31-2004, 04:02 PM
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#38
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Member
Registered: Nov 2004
Location: ~
Distribution: Debian
Posts: 145
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Debian.
Because it's free all the way;
Because It's the mother of many new distros;
Because it's Debian...
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12-31-2004, 06:16 PM
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#39
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2003
Distribution: Debian
Posts: 19
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Xandros, Ubuntu, and Knoppix (and I believe Mepis & Linspire) are all Debian-based, so by that measure you'd have to say that Debian is the most popular distro.
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12-31-2004, 09:27 PM
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Member
Registered: Nov 2003
Location: over there
Distribution: Debian Testing
Posts: 191
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The SubGenius must have Slack!
Quote:
Originally posted by linux_man_2004
Of course Fedora is the best. It has always commed to us with the newest things available (and stable). Fedora 3 (the newest) uses kernel 2.6.9 (by default), whereas Slackware uses a very old 2.4.* kernel and ofcourse the software within is very, very old.
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Don't worry, someday you will understand.  |
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12-31-2004, 09:44 PM
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#41
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Member
Registered: Apr 2004
Location: Motherboard
Distribution: Debian GNU/Linux
Posts: 156
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One Distro, to rule them all…
One Distro, to find them…
One Distro, to bring them all…
And in the darkness, bind them…
Yeah..........I can hear it.......It is Debian  |
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12-31-2004, 10:17 PM
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#42
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Member
Registered: Apr 2004
Distribution: Slackware 10, Open BSD 3.6, Mac OS 10.3.7, Splack 10 beta
Posts: 393
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Slackware 10 comes with 2.6.7 but has 2.4 becasue it is more stable.
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12-31-2004, 10:34 PM
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#43
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Senior Member
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Mississippi USA
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 2,058
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Quote:
Originally posted by rcottere
Slackware 10 comes with 2.6.7 but has 2.4 becasue it is more stable.
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Code:
root@smoker / # uname -r
2.6.8-gentoo-r10
root@smoker / # uptime
22:31:51 up 51 days, 16:08, 4 users, load average: 0.04, 0.03, 0.01
root@smoker / #
2.6.8 looks pretty stable to me. Still ginning too.
I never had anything but problems with 2.4 kernels myself. Maybe my hardware is a bit to new.
Later
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12-31-2004, 11:19 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Feb 2003
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 4,113
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Stable as in '22:31:51 up 510 days, 16:08, 400 users' on a business machine and the like. I'm making stuff up, but the point's there. I use 2.6 myself and it's fine for me, but that doesn't mean it is for everybody.
But, yeah, the original point about Slackware coming with old packages is frankly ridiculous.
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12-31-2004, 11:19 PM
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#45
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Member
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: King George, VA
Distribution: RHEL/CentOS/Scientific/Fedora, LinuxMint
Posts: 366
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Gentoo.....hands down. Fedora (although a great distro)use to be my fav. Then i was introduced to portage and speed!!. I have since never looked back. Debian/Ubuntu run a very close second for me....awesome distros.
For me the Gentoo documentation is absolutely the best. I use the Gentoo documentation for just about any general linux setup
1) Gentoo
2) Debian/Ubuntu
3) Fedora
I think i will try Slack in '05 for firewall duty
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