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View Poll Results: Desktop Distribution of the Year
Ubuntu
546 35.36%
Fedora
153 9.91%
Debian
158 10.23%
openSuse
119 7.71%
Slackware
192 12.44%
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
10 0.65%
Mandriva
74 4.79%
Gentoo
58 3.76%
MEPIS
29 1.88%
Linux Mint
48 3.11%
Arch
75 4.86%
PClinuxOS
40 2.59%
Zenwalk
24 1.55%
VectorLinux
12 0.78%
Freespire
0 0%
gOS
6 0.39%
#1
root
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 7,139
Thanked: 164
Desktop Distribution of the Year
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#2
Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Nottingham, UK
Distribution: Mandriva Spring 2009.1 / PClinuxOS 2009 / PCLXDE 2009
Posts: 3,560
Thanked: 84
There can be only one... ...M4ndr1v4 .
#3
Member
Registered: Aug 2005
Location: Sarasota, FL
Distribution: Slackware64 ® 13.0
Posts: 707
Thanked: 20
Slackware is my choice but I have a feeling it will turn into an Ubombtu landslide...........
#4
Member
Registered: Sep 2006
Location: Orange County, NY
Distribution: Ubuntu & Solaris
Posts: 232
Thanked: 13
I love me some Ubuntu/Debian however lately solaris has been giving me those happy fuzzy feelings = )
#5
Senior Member
Registered: Jan 2005
Location: Nottingham, UK
Distribution: Mandriva Spring 2009.1 / PClinuxOS 2009 / PCLXDE 2009
Posts: 3,560
Thanked: 84
Quote:
Originally Posted by
SqdnGuns
Slackware is my choice but I have a feeling it will turn into an Ubombtu landslide...........
If it was a poll for the easiest, then i would agree. It is not the best though (imho).
#6
Member
Registered: Aug 2005
Location: Sarasota, FL
Distribution: Slackware64 ® 13.0
Posts: 707
Thanked: 20
Quote:
Originally Posted by
{BBI}Nexus{BBI}
If it was a poll for the easiest, then i would agree. It is not the best though (imho).
I know but that's not how all members will read into the question.
#7
Member
Registered: Apr 2005
Posts: 58
Thanked: 0
Dreamlinux?
#8
Member
Registered: Feb 2004
Location: Las Vegas, NV
Distribution: Kubuntu 8.04 until KDE4 no longer sucks
Posts: 223
Thanked: 9
Didn't Xandros scoop up Freespire when they bought Linspire?
#9
Member
Registered: Jan 2009
Location: Sydney, Australia
Distribution: Puppy & Debian
Posts: 43
Thanked: 3
Puppy Linux?
#10
Guru
Registered: Jan 2001
Posts: 23,977
Thanked: 8
Quote:
Originally Posted by
SqdnGuns
Slackware is my choice but I have a feeling it will turn into an Ubombtu landslide...........
You'd be surprised, before Ubuntu became popular, Slackware won this award. I think it's only been Slackware and Ubuntu as the winners.
#11
root
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 7,139
Thanked: 164
Original Poster
Puppy Linux and Dreamlinux are in the Live Distribution category.
#12
Member
Registered: Feb 2005
Location: London, UK
Distribution: Gentoo
Posts: 551
Thanked: 10
Gentoo for me. Fastest there are and no releases, just continuously up to date. My favorite command "emerge -DNu world"
Mons
#13
Member
Registered: Oct 2003
Location: West Midlands, UK
Distribution: Slackware (current), Linux XP (just for laughs)
Posts: 371
Thanked: 9
Slackware all the way
#14
Member
Registered: Oct 2004
Location: USA
Distribution: Fedora 8 (MythDora), Fedora 10; Debian 4.x (Etch); CrunchBang Linux 8.10.2, Mandriva 2009
Posts: 554
Thanked: 1
so hard to choose only one
#15
LQ Newbie
Registered: Jun 2005
Location: Boston
Distribution: Mandriva 2008.1
Posts: 27
Thanked: 0
I'm gonna have to go with Mandriva on this one. It was the distro I used when I was very first exposed to Linux five years ago. Easy to use, fast, and reliable. Sure, I've bounced around from SUSE (including its enterprise variants) to Ubuntu to Debian and Gentoo, and even explored the UNIX OSes a bit: FreeBSD and Solaris. But I keep coming back to Mandriva time and time again because it is built so well.
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