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View Poll Results: Distribution of the Year
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Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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27 |
0.94% |
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Fedora
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253 |
8.85% |
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Slackware
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434 |
15.18% |
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Suse
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294 |
10.28% |
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Debian
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276 |
9.65% |
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Mandriva
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126 |
4.41% |
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Ubuntu
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756 |
26.44% |
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Knoppix
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20 |
0.70% |
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Gentoo
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166 |
5.81% |
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MEPIS
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95 |
3.32% |
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Novell Linux Desktop
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15 |
0.52% |
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Xandros
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18 |
0.63% |
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Linspire
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16 |
0.56% |
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Arch
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106 |
3.71% |
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PClinuxOS
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170 |
5.95% |
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CentOS
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29 |
1.01% |
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LFS
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18 |
0.63% |
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Zenwalk
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32 |
1.12% |
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Vector
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8 |
0.28% |
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02-01-2007, 04:55 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2005
Location: UK
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 6
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Slackware <3
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02-01-2007, 05:16 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Sep 2004
Distribution: slackware
Posts: 1,687
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All this slack callin' me, back where it comes from. It's such a crude attitude, it's back where it belongs. All the little kids growing up on the skids go "Slackware rocks!", "Slackware rocks!"
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02-01-2007, 05:33 AM
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#303
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2006
Distribution: debain what else
Posts: 19
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Debian rules
even knoppix is also handy many times
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02-01-2007, 05:33 AM
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#304
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2006
Posts: 7
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what about Puppy and Myah
on http://distrowatch.com/ puppy linux is #17 , man puppy linux users regard Puppy as a icon, almost to a god status. now don't you think this should be on the list??? and Myah is just a nice full feature , graphical install distro. which should get more air time...
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02-01-2007, 05:43 AM
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#305
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Oct 2006
Posts: 5
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kanotix livecd is great
it has the newest kernel with a gui for
nondestructively repartitioning your
drive and installing everything on the cd
in four screens
i had the new small form dell optiplex-whatever
at work and kanotix was the only distro that
could read the cdrom.. without kanotix i'd
be in cygwin-ville...
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02-01-2007, 06:02 AM
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#306
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2007
Location: N.Wales,UK
Distribution: PCLinuxOS
Posts: 1
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Tried a few and stopped when I found PCLinuxOS, user frendley, stable,and the best forum around.
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02-01-2007, 06:50 AM
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#307
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Member
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Bristol, UK
Distribution: Depend on what was loaded yesterday...
Posts: 50
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Puppy! Ever over-looked by the Establishment.
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02-01-2007, 07:03 AM
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#308
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Member
Registered: Apr 2006
Location: Earth
Distribution: BLFS customized
Posts: 160
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C'mon... Developer's choice - LFS!!!
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02-01-2007, 08:18 AM
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#309
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jul 2006
Posts: 7
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Fedora 6
fedora 6 is much better than 5. there are issues with my laptop(Compaq Presario M2253AU), the ATI Radeon Xpress 200M graphics card seriously breaks up (sometimes after a yum update)requiring a reboot. Another big problem is the microphone input, sometimes it works, but most of the time it doesn't. Not being able to use skype is a real hassle!! the audio configuration utility simply doesn't cut it!!
Anyway i hope fedora 7 will address the VGA and sound issues on my hardware otherwise i will consider another distribution. overall though i am a fedora fan!! i will stick with it for a while and see what happens.

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02-01-2007, 08:37 AM
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#310
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Member
Registered: Apr 2003
Location: Baton Rouge, LA
Distribution: Kubuntu 12.04, 12.10, 13.04a
Posts: 229
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Best Distro
I switched from Fedora to Kubuntu.
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02-01-2007, 08:42 AM
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#311
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Senior Member
Registered: Sep 2005
Location: West Virginia
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 1,249
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I voted Gentoo back when voting was open. Now that its closed, I would still vote Gentoo.
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02-01-2007, 09:34 AM
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#312
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2005
Distribution: Ubuntu,Zenwalk
Posts: 18
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Ubuntu because it's the most popular and therefore more likely to get help if you encounter new problems. Based on debian too so...
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02-01-2007, 09:53 AM
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#313
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Nov 2006
Posts: 2
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Archlinux. No other comes close. Like good food and wine you wont find it at the corner cafe or advertised much you have to look for it.
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02-01-2007, 10:17 AM
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#314
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2005
Location: Where the rams and the wolves run with the devil.
Distribution: Fedora Core 6, OpenSUSE 10.2, Slackware 11.
Posts: 8
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Fedora 6
I run Slack as a VM to remember my roots, but I've yet to find a distro that goes on my T60 as smooth as FC6. Having ADS, thinkpad buttons, and wireless(kinda kinda works) right off the plastic is nice.
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02-01-2007, 10:22 AM
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#315
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Aug 2006
Location: england
Distribution: ubuntu
Posts: 1
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ubuntu, its been at the top of distrowatch all year! in my personal exp ubuntu just seems right for me, ive tried others but always come back? comunity support is seccond to none!
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