Kanotix is in the LiveCD category.

--jeremy

Gentoo with the portage improvements in ~arch and the advanced package management

As usual, Debian! I've never been more satisfied with any other distro. Since I installed Debian, I haven't looked back!

Debian! They made a release in '05, so I'd definitly say debian :) If you look though, quite a few of the distros listed up there are based on debian, so debian should win, hands down.

my vote went for slackware.. as ive used it the longest and learned the most with it.

iv never used debian (besides ubuntu, but its not the same of course).. mainly for the fact that its 14 cds!? what is that.... this fact will probably make me never use or want to use debian

actually, assuming you've got a decent internet connection, it's 1 110MB CD. Ubuntu is not the same as debian, Debians better!

i know ubuntu isnt debian, i just mentioned i have used ubuntu because its debian based, thats it.

1 110mb cd? this is probably like ubuntu.. but that one is a 600mb or something cd, and after you install and boot for first time, it downloads, installs and configures tons of more packages.. which is afew hundred mb.. so its probably similar to what debian does, right?

i dont like how this happens. i like to think that once i have installed the OS and reboot for the first time.. i can use it; not have to wait and let it download more stuff and configure these new programs, etc.

i dunno, thats just how i thought about it and i disliked that, just my opinion.

yes, it's called a netinstall CD, it installs the base system, you reboot, continue with the installation, then reboot again, and you have a functional installation. There are 18,000 packages in Debian, thus the 14 CDs.

ok

maybe one day ill try it when im more interested in it.. but till then i just like how i have 2 install cds and once installed everything is ready to go!

everyones different :)

*Tinkster sings to the tune of "Forever young": Forever slack, I'd like to use, forever slack, do you really want to use forever, forever, foever slack ...

:}

Slackware++;

And another vote for Slackware. Still, I was tempted to go for CentOS since I love having a RHEL binary rebuild to use at work (for all the people who only know Red hat :D).

I use Debian on all my Linux boxes, so that's what I vote for :)

To be honest I don't know if I can vote for any one distro, I started out on mandrake for 2 years then found Suse then tried slackware and Fedora core 4. I found they all seem to have one thing the other distros don't have. And have atleast one of each distro still on a machine. Maybe have a poll for which one do people like for there desktop and which on for there servers.

Ubuntu
 

Almost nine years of Linux and Ubuntu makes me happy every time I use it. Shuttleworth is adding some great tools to the chain.