Distribution of the Year

cincindie · 02-01-2006, 04:52 PM

Have pretty much stuck to RH, Fedora and Debian. Did have LinuxPPC for a long time on my Mac - was much faster and easier to work with than OS 7.5.5 (at that time).

PenguinBoy42544 · 02-01-2006, 05:02 PM

I voted for Ubuntu.....but Kubuntu should have been a choice in the polling.

dkpw · 02-01-2006, 05:20 PM

Slackware - you know it makes sense.

heyubob · 02-01-2006, 06:04 PM

As a recent linux convert (multiple reasons withheld), I have only used Debian. Daunting at times, but, I for one, want to be able to control my machine(s).

I am learning to like my computer again!

cooldaddy · 02-01-2006, 06:08 PM

I love Red hat it just works, sound, video, internet, the lot, if you dont want to muck about and get away from windows, red hat , fedora , is the one ,
but!! i like knoppix , debian, I just love Linux ,

G519 · 02-01-2006, 06:14 PM

Xandros cos it just works. Also like SuSE, RedHat and Mandrake.

heyubob · 02-01-2006, 09:30 PM

What kind of comparisons should I be making? Which disro is better at hardware stuff or more eyecandy, apps available? Does it get along and play well with others? What degree of comp.sci do I need to run a program? Do I even like penguins (gasp! of course, I do)?

thumper · 02-01-2006, 09:58 PM

My vote has to go to Arch.... excellent package management via pacman... this distro is fast, flexible, and simple. Simple as in few automated tools that is. It stays up to date and is developing well. Thanks to Judd, tpowa, and the rest of the maintainers. Cheers.

masand · 02-01-2006, 10:52 PM

hi there

here too we should be having some categories like distribution w.r.t to Server,Desktop Live CD
this will help in making choices more clear.

Like I prefer Slackware/Debian on My desktop and runnning Redhat Linux Enterprise or Suse Enterprise on Servers and i prefer knoppix in Live Cds

regards

Turbocapitalist · 02-01-2006, 11:07 PM

Definitely Ubuntu / Kubuntu

linuxcolor · 02-02-2006, 12:52 AM

Haaaaaaaa
What i sayyyy.........
Only ........FEDORA

aylov · 02-02-2006, 02:19 AM

And my favorite Distro is...
Gentoo

KegRaider · 02-02-2006, 05:13 AM

I started in the linux world with RedHat 6.0, moved to Caldera eDesktop 2.4 for quite a while, tried almost every flavour, then Gentoo took my heart since version 1.2. Great distro!

XP_ColdTurkey · 02-02-2006, 05:26 AM

Never try that many distro since I am a noob, I think those LiveCDs work pretty well except for the fact that I can't save my settings. I say that we give them a round of applause as well.

JohnDA · 02-02-2006, 06:14 AM

I put in my vote for Red Hat Fedora Core, the installation was made on my Dell pentium III 600 machine that I had partitioned to use as a Windows/Linux machine under dual boot. It recognised every piece of equipment the computer had without a single flaw and the installation was amazing to watch.