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You can now vote for your favorite products of 2006. This is your chance to be heard! Voting ends February 18th.

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View Poll Results: Distribution of the Year
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 27 0.94%
Fedora 253 8.85%
Slackware 434 15.18%
Suse 294 10.28%
Debian 276 9.65%
Mandriva 126 4.41%
Ubuntu 756 26.44%
Knoppix 20 0.70%
Gentoo 166 5.81%
MEPIS 95 3.32%
Novell Linux Desktop 15 0.52%
Xandros 18 0.63%
Linspire 16 0.56%
Arch 106 3.71%
PClinuxOS 170 5.95%
CentOS 29 1.01%
LFS 18 0.63%
Zenwalk 32 1.12%
Vector 8 0.28%
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Old 01-25-2007, 05:30 AM   #271
kartik_mistry
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Location: India
Distribution: Debian Sid, Lenny
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Debian rocks!!
 
Old 01-25-2007, 09:54 AM   #272
jononearm
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Zenwalk it's brill
 
Old 01-26-2007, 01:50 PM   #273
marvinudy
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Registered: Oct 2004
Location: detroit
Distribution: Mint, Mepis, Sabayon, PCLOS, Sidux, UltimateEdition, Suse
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distro of the year

Sabayon gets my vote!
 
Old 01-26-2007, 06:33 PM   #274
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I voted Ubuntu, but I probably meant Debian.

I've not tried masses, but all that I've had time to, really, and Kubuntu seemed to be the one that fell most in line with how my brain wants my computer to work.

But recently i've installed Debian for the first time, and I reall like the almost legacy attitude to the software - nothing new and bleeding or even cutting edge by default, all tried and tested. Which is exactly what I want to use.
And while I'm going through the experimenting stage, supporting 11 architectures is probably going to be handy.

The distros that I use on a regular basis are all Debian or Debian based now. I've got a webserver running Debian, a fileserver running ubuntu, my desktop runs Kubuntu and my laptop's running DSL. So they must be doing something that I like.
 
Old 01-26-2007, 07:34 PM   #275
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Quote:
Originally Posted by jeremy
And your favorite Distro is...
SimplyMEPIS. I find it has the easy setup common to the easiest distros around, mostly free stuff, but when it is a choice between "free" or "works", SimplyMEPIS assembles the pieces needed to "work".

Based on Debian and Ubuntu on top of that, I find it has the stability of Debian and the currentness of Ubuntu, and it saves me having to build a Sid based Debian desktop system myself, then spend hours adding in all the non free stuff I need to accomplish the tasks I am interested in accomplishing.

Ideally, I wish GNU could get it ALL free. In the meantime, it is SimplyMEPIS for me on the desk.

Runnerup: Freespire, for many of the same reasons, but MEPIS pulls em off a bit better and MEPIS seems to run a bit faster - less bloated with unnecessary services.
 
Old 01-26-2007, 08:56 PM   #276
wildar
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Mandriva FTW
 
Old 01-26-2007, 09:45 PM   #277
gloomz
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hmmm lemme think...

Debian 100%
 
Old 01-27-2007, 08:48 AM   #278
hendoc
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Location: Conroe, Texas
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I run both 32 bit and 64 bit oses and my vote goes to 64 bit Edgie. It is blindingly fast.
 
Old 01-27-2007, 02:44 PM   #279
shuuhen
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Gentoo. I've so far always been able to get a bootable system on the first try (after some tweaking of course). I personally like how it now has a Gnome DE, so I can go to various web sites if needed while installing (or doing homework while installing).
 
Old 01-27-2007, 07:54 PM   #280
rjohnson244
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Location: U.S.A
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Arch!
I've tried so many distributions that I can't even remember them all, but Arch will be my permanent, useful system.
 
Old 01-28-2007, 07:44 AM   #281
jag1506
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hey guys the best distribution is:

Debian Etch x86_64, fast, secure and actually is stable not like lot of people think. i tried and installed beryl without problems runs really nice but took long time to do install. after this i tried ubuntu edgy it's sun and took just like 10 minutes to install beryl on it and works really nice and fast. i think that we need to continue using linux and beryl that kick up aero 1000 times jeje, and is not so heavy.
 
Old 01-28-2007, 11:33 PM   #282
portamenteff
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I voted Knoppix because-You didn't have my Kanotix on there and that's the closest thing.
 
Old 01-30-2007, 11:15 AM   #283
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Slackware, as always. The "true" Linux.
 
Old 01-30-2007, 01:21 PM   #284
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Nah, the "true" Linux is and allways will be Linux From Scratch!
 
Old 01-30-2007, 01:51 PM   #285
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Distribution: PCLinuxOS 2009.1, UNR 9.04
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Favorite? SuSe Pro.
Most important? 64 Studio
 
  


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