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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 !
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.
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'.
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