Distribution of the Year

rwc_zippy · 01-02-2007, 10:16 PM

Yet another vote for PCLOS - it's a solid distro - great media support - easy package manager - nice eye-candy....

chagocota · 01-03-2007, 12:04 AM

I've enjoyed using Fedora 5 throughout 2006.
I installed Slackware 11 on NewYear's Eve...I hope to vote Slack next year!

randrake · 01-03-2007, 01:19 AM

I have used them all, a friend gave me a pclinux big daddy cd and I was amazed at how all my hard ware just worked with out any further ado. It is a great distro and I would recommend it to any one interested in a distro that just plain works.

jfsu · 01-03-2007, 01:31 AM

for me as a beginner in Linux, i think that Suse 10.2 is the easily and most complete solution in Linux. i tried to use many other distros, but i liked more the Suse.

tommcd · 01-03-2007, 01:37 AM

Well, I vote ubuntu, if for no other reason than the fact that ubuntu has introduced a huge number of people to linux. Many of them (including me!!) are here to stay, and are happy they made the switch.
Zenwalk 4.0 is impressive, and was not too difficult for this linux novice to try out and have fun with.

Livestradamus · 01-03-2007, 02:05 AM

As a total newb last year it was PCLinuxOS, this time around (still a newb but wiser by 1 year) my vote goes for Zenwalk!

huseki · 01-03-2007, 02:48 AM

SUSE is cool enough, has never disappointed me.Lots of Applications and bleeding edge technology.

alxknit · 01-03-2007, 03:22 AM

Well here is my first post..! I vote for open suse since i use suse for a long time. The main reason for this is that this distro has the best language support for my mother language (greek). I have tried a lot of distros but always at the end i go back to suse.

vangelis · 01-03-2007, 05:33 AM

2 years in a row I was voting for Suse but this year I saw Zenwalk doing some leaps on simplicity and slickness, so I go for Zenwalk computing!

kesara · 01-03-2007, 07:26 AM

Nothing like Gentoo!

rubendarioportillo · 01-03-2007, 08:49 AM

RHEL or Centos are the best of the best of the best!

cheepgeek · 01-03-2007, 09:55 AM

Have to give my vote to Puppy Linux. This small distro boots to desktop in under 1 minute and has all the apps you need. The forum is the best I've seen. Very friendly and fast replies. A new version is released every 6-8 weeks, and consistently gets better and better. I was a Ubuntu fan, but got tired of waiting for it to load. If you've never tried Puppy Linux, download it (50-80 Megs), and pop in the live cd.
You WILL be amazed!!

kernel_geek · 01-03-2007, 09:58 AM

I think gentoo, although difficult to setup. Its certinaly worth the flexibility and the speed. Although ubuntu possibly the most popular distro has come along way in the last year.

jeremy · 01-03-2007, 10:16 AM

Puppy is in the Live Distribution Poll. We have no plans to add it to this poll this year, but we'll review it again for next years poll.

--jeremy

wazoo · 01-03-2007, 10:18 AM

It's been a year of many good distros. But PCLinuxOS gets my vote for several reasons: Live CD to check your hardware, easy install to disk, gorgeous, easy to update, far simpler to get to full web compatibility than almost anything out there (multimedia codecs just one apt-get or Synaptic search away), and a civil and and responsive forum. And wait till you see .94!