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View Poll Results: Desktop Distribution of the Year
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Ubuntu
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277 |
28.56% |
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Fedora
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82 |
8.45% |
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Debian
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98 |
10.10% |
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openSuse
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48 |
4.95% |
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Slackware
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177 |
18.25% |
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SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop
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2 |
0.21% |
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Mandriva
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18 |
1.86% |
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Linux Mint
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98 |
10.10% |
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Gentoo
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19 |
1.96% |
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MEPIS
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13 |
1.34% |
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Arch
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60 |
6.19% |
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PClinuxOS
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23 |
2.37% |
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Zenwalk
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1 |
0.10% |
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VectorLinux
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2 |
0.21% |
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Sabayon
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6 |
0.62% |
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Puppy
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14 |
1.44% |
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Salix
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30 |
3.09% |
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CrunchBang
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2 |
0.21% |
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01-12-2011, 03:02 PM
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root 
Registered: Jun 2000
Distribution: Debian, Red Hat, Slackware, Fedora, Ubuntu
Posts: 9,518
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Desktop Distribution of the Year
The best Linux distribution for use on a Desktop machine.
--jeremy
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01-13-2011, 11:10 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Dec 2003
Location: Paris
Distribution: Slackware forever.
Posts: 2,178
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Slackware.
It saves me so much time having it on user's computers.
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01-13-2011, 11:53 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Feb 2010
Location: Bulgaria
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 9
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Slackware ...and not just best for 2010 , but for all time.
It does only and just what I told him to do , nothing more , nothing less ...just what a distribution should do! Obey the root :P
Last edited by shadowx; 01-13-2011 at 11:55 AM.
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01-13-2011, 01:20 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2007
Location: Germany
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 3,856
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Slackware, I always came back since 1994.
Markus
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01-13-2011, 01:39 PM
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LQ Veteran
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: London
Distribution: Slackware64-current
Posts: 5,089
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That's at least 4 votes for Slackware. Good start  |
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01-13-2011, 01:56 PM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2009
Location: London North West
Distribution: x86_64 Slack 13.37 current : +others
Posts: 459
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Slackware... Praise Bob ! that makes 5 votes.
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01-13-2011, 04:44 PM
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Member
Registered: Nov 2005
Location: USA
Distribution: Mageia Cauldron & Salix 14
Posts: 939
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I have to say for the best all around distro I've used for the past couple of years would be Mandriva...alot of stuff works out the box.
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01-13-2011, 07:11 PM
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Member
Registered: Oct 2010
Location: Serbia (Europe)
Distribution: Slackware 13.1
Posts: 74
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Slackware |
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01-13-2011, 07:16 PM
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Member
Registered: Mar 2010
Location: Western Maine
Distribution: PCLinuxOS (LXDE)
Posts: 467
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Debian for me. I gave up on Ubuntu when people starting asking me about my new Mac. No kidding.
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01-13-2011, 09:44 PM
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Member
Registered: Apr 2008
Distribution: Slackware64 13.37, Solaris 10, RHEL5/6
Posts: 92
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slackware... I've been using it for 2+ years now.
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01-13-2011, 10:29 PM
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Member
Registered: Aug 2009
Location: Oregon, USA
Distribution: Arch
Posts: 864
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I voted Arch, but I still predict that Slackware will win by a landslide yet again...  |
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01-14-2011, 12:09 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2008
Location: Nagpur, India
Distribution: Cent OS 5/6, Ubuntu Server 10.04
Posts: 4,592
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I use Ubuntu and vote for it.
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01-14-2011, 12:29 AM
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Member
Registered: Dec 2006
Distribution: Debian (Wheeze)
Posts: 391
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RHEL3all of the way
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01-14-2011, 12:54 AM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jan 2011
Location: Russia
Distribution: Slackware
Posts: 15
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+1 Slackware
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01-14-2011, 07:56 AM
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Senior Member
Registered: Jun 2006
Location: England
Distribution: Debian Testing/Unstable Amd64
Posts: 1,467
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but I still predict that Slackware will win by a landslide yet again
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Isn't it normally Ubuntu that wins this catergory?. |
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