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You can now vote for your favorite products of 2005. This is your chance to be heard! Voting ends March 6th.

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View Poll Results: Distribution of the Year
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 34 1.36%
Fedora 235 9.38%
Mandrakelinux 145 5.79%
Slackware 477 19.05%
Suse 330 13.18%
Debian 265 10.58%
Knoppix 19 0.76%
Gentoo 225 8.99%
MEPIS 73 2.92%
Ubuntu 488 19.49%
Novell Linux Desktop 6 0.24%
Xandros 14 0.56%
Linspire 18 0.72%
Arch 71 2.84%
PClinuxOS 44 1.76%
CentOS 37 1.48%
LFS 23 0.92%
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Old 03-04-2006, 09:12 PM   #256
Jeebizz
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Slackware all the way!
 
Old 03-04-2006, 09:56 PM   #257
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had another look at ubuntu...coming along nice...mandriva is nice too...but the one for me is Slackware.
 
Old 03-05-2006, 01:32 AM   #258
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Fedora FC4

I tried Suse, Debian, Slax (live CD) I found FC4 to be the best for me anyway.
 
Old 03-05-2006, 02:18 AM   #259
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Hmm... Frugalware is not listed. But I'd have voted Debian anyway.

The next stable Debian release, Etch, is going to rock!
 
Old 03-05-2006, 02:59 AM   #260
anakin
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I also like to explore distro's. I recently installed Mandriva 2006 power pack or so...let me tell u, they've done a good thing with mandriva, and also suse linux. They are very good Desktop distros, good hardware support (even though I ain't got so many hardware :P).I'm using an Athlon XP 2400 Processor, 2 hard drives (120 and 40 GB) 512 MB of RAM, DVD-RW, CD-RW, NVIDIA graphics card and I can say that the perfect OS for this machine (at least for me) is Slackware 10.2. I hated all that rpm shit in mandriva, much more dependencies...could not install anything from scratch, I had to search for pre-compiled mandriva packages...
Recenlty I viewed a discution on some romanian forum and some Gentoo user said awful things about slackware...stupid people argue about distros.Any distro has its adepts..depends on what u wanna do with your computer.The perfect for me is slackware as I told u above...Exploring the distros over the years, after I found out slack, I realized one thing that all slackers should know:
Slackware doesn't search for users, the users search for it !!
No slackware pictures, no GUI installation setup with "Slackware does this, slackware does that", even the damned /etc/issue file doesnt tell u that u run a slack machine...and that my friends is what I love about it...PURE Linux !!! (U can all be sure I voted for slackware :PP)
Long live Pat He rocks !
 
Old 03-05-2006, 03:54 PM   #261
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Slackware/SUSE
 
Old 03-06-2006, 07:43 AM   #262
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Gentoo for the adventurous and ubuntu for the laymen
 
Old 03-06-2006, 09:22 AM   #263
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I have heard good things about SUSE and Debian, but IMO Fedora 4 is without a doubt the best distro.

Ive installed it on several machines, and its out of the box functional, with little or no configuration required (especially good on laptops). I know people hate the fact its almost like Windows now, but I dont think thats a bad thing for functionality. I used to use slack but I got tired of spending more time messing around with configuration and trying to upgrade things, then using my box for internet and stuff.
 
Old 03-06-2006, 10:20 AM   #264
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Debian

My choice is the rock solid Debian! Sarge has come out the most awaiting distribution of the year!
 
Old 03-06-2006, 12:08 PM   #265
juanctes
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my distro

my favourite is slackware.
 
Old 03-06-2006, 04:50 PM   #266
jcs32
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I like Gentoo because it made me configure and compile my kernel for the first time (successfully) ;-)
Also learned more about linux within the last year compared to the four years before with SuSE.
Also like the from-source principle (which is of course no unique to Gentoo, but anyway) and 'emerge'.
 
Old 03-07-2006, 07:36 AM   #267
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It's true, Ubuntu is indeed the most popular Linux distribution!!!
(On linuxquestions.com anyway.)
 
Old 03-07-2006, 09:05 AM   #268
truthfatal
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.org, peter_89 :P

Congrats to Ubuntu! (I'm glad to see Slack did well too )
 
Old 03-07-2006, 10:28 AM   #269
ajcham
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Quote:
Originally Posted by peter_89
It's true, Ubuntu is indeed the most popular Linux distribution!!!
(On linuxquestions.com anyway.)
I'm not sure what the mods think, but when it's this close I'd call it a draw.
 
Old 03-07-2006, 12:42 PM   #270
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Quote:
Originally Posted by peter_89
It's true, Ubuntu is indeed the most popular Linux distribution!!!
(On linuxquestions.com anyway.)
Not only here, but also according to DistroWatch it is the most popular.
 
  


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