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You can now vote for your favorite products of 2009. This is your chance to be heard! Voting ends on February 9th.

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View Poll Results: Desktop Distribution of the Year
Ubuntu 342 30.13%
Fedora 111 9.78%
Debian 101 8.90%
openSuse 67 5.90%
Slackware 190 16.74%
SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 3 0.26%
Mandriva 46 4.05%
Gentoo 43 3.79%
MEPIS 19 1.67%
Linux Mint 93 8.19%
Arch 59 5.20%
PClinuxOS 28 2.47%
Zenwalk 7 0.62%
VectorLinux 5 0.44%
Freespire 0 0%
gOS 0 0%
Sabayon 6 0.53%
Puppy 15 1.32%
Voters: 1135. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 01-07-2010, 02:29 PM   #1
jeremy
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Desktop Distribution of the Year


The best Linux distribution for use on a Desktop machine.

--jeremy
 
Old 01-08-2010, 02:59 AM   #2
Kenichi Kato
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Fedora
 
Old 01-08-2010, 05:20 AM   #3
mudangel
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Slackware
 
Old 01-08-2010, 05:43 AM   #4
EricTRA
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Since poll is closed (??) I'll post my vote here:

Slackware 13

Kind regards,

Eric
 
Old 01-08-2010, 05:46 AM   #5
brianL
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Registered: Jan 2006
Location: Oldham, Lancs, England
Distribution: Laptop: Slackware 13.37 // Desktop: Slackware64 13.37 // Netbook: Slackware 13.37
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Slackware 13.0 (64 & 32 bit versions = 2 votes for Slack. )
 
Old 01-08-2010, 12:00 PM   #6
immortaltechnique
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Location: Kenya
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Ubuntu 9.10 Karmic Koala
 
Old 01-08-2010, 12:01 PM   #7
jimmy page
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Registered: Jan 2010
Distribution: Gentoo, Slackware
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Gentoo.
 
Old 01-08-2010, 01:09 PM   #8
H_TeXMeX_H
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slackware !
 
Old 01-08-2010, 02:26 PM   #9
SqdnGuns
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Slackware64 but I expect the Ubombtu n00bs to flood the poll.
 
Old 01-08-2010, 03:01 PM   #10
MBybee
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Registered: Jan 2009
Location: wherever I can make a living
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Debian Lenny - or FreeBSD 8
 
Old 01-08-2010, 03:09 PM   #11
vrkalak
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Registered: Jul 2009
Location: Santa Fe, NM, USA
Distribution: Debian Squeeze- (testing) and Crunchbang
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LinuxMint-8 (Xfce). . . ."wins by a nose"
 
Old 01-08-2010, 03:19 PM   #12
linus72
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I'm going with Debian Squeeze
 
Old 01-08-2010, 03:38 PM   #13
esteeven
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Location: Bristol UK
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SqdnGuns View Post
Slackware64 but I expect the Ubombtu n00bs to flood the poll.
Yawn. You ain't much past a n00b yourself SqdnGuns. Imagine if I'd said the same thing about Slackware eg

"Ubuntu but I expect the Slackers are coming."

I hate it when people are belittled because of the distro they use. Ubuntu users aren't necessarily new to Linux.

For the record:
I voted Ubuntu. It really does work (usually ) and that is part of my definition of a "desktop distro."

Also for the record:
I mainly use Squeeze.
 
Old 01-08-2010, 04:00 PM   #14
repo
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Quote:
Originally Posted by SqdnGuns View Post
Slackware64 but I expect the Ubombtu n00bs to flood the poll.
I thought linux was about freedom of choice,
Not about being better then the rest, or patronizing people.
 
Old 01-08-2010, 04:06 PM   #15
jefm
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Registered: Oct 2009
Location: Missouri
Distribution: Debian Lenny, Android
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Having not run every OS above, it seems weird to vote. The question is "what's the best", not "what do you run". Maybe I'm thinking too hard. BTW I run Debian Lenny on everything, except when using a rescue OS. I'm too lazy to try everything :}
 
  


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