Poll:What is the Best Distro?

ChaosX2 · 12-06-2003, 03:16 AM

I've only used two distros, Redhat and Mandrake. As of right now I would say Mandrake is better than Redhat, that being said I am currently installing gentoo and it looks promising. I'm waiting on casting my vote until I finish getting my gentoo system fully functional (stage 1 install - fun, but takes forever)

tcaptain · 12-06-2003, 09:38 AM

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Originally posted by kokaine
tcaptain, I guess thats why so many people replied

That's no indicator...there's always people willing to bite around here

JZL240I-U · 12-08-2003, 05:45 AM

http://www.distrowatch.com/

CrazyPilot · 01-13-2004, 08:57 PM

in my opinion, if it costs money it ain't the best.

lighty14 · 01-14-2004, 08:16 PM

Installing Red Hat was a piece of cake -- easier than SuSE. I screwed up when I tried Slackware, and I never tried to install College Linux on anything but my old and busted laptop. Then there was Gentoo, which I've probably spent an entire week of my life trying to get working to no avail (oh well, I've got more time coming up some time). SuSE has some nice features... I just wish my sound would work.

I've also used Debian at school but I've never installed it so I'm not sure how it is in that sense.

I'm looking for a nice distro to install on my personal PC (this one is for someone else). Any suggestions? I'm not sure if I want to run SuSE on my own box.

heema · 01-14-2004, 10:13 PM

Libranet 2.8

its debian based and its easy to use.

apache363 · 02-01-2004, 06:26 PM

Fedora Core 1 is the best distro if you ask me. I've used others, including Knoppix and Mandrake, but I like Fedora the best.

Joey.Dale · 02-01-2004, 09:12 PM

slackware - current

Mistshadow · 02-03-2004, 05:05 PM

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Originally posted by markus1982
Being easy to configure doesn't make a distribution the best; also went to some RPM dependency hell already? :-)

Strangely, for me apt4rpm on SuSE solves all dependency issues better than apt on Debian distros. Yeah, I know a lot of the Debian people are going to scream and snarl, but that's the way it's worked for me. Better still, yum on RH 9 worked perfectly unless it couldn't find a package I wanted, and there'll be less and less of that problem as more yum repositories come out.

JZL240I-U · 02-04-2004, 01:15 AM

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Originally posted by Mistshadow
Strangely, for me apt4rpm on SuSE solves all dependency issues better than apt on Debian distros. ... yum on RH 9 worked perfectly ...

But it might bring problems when you use non-SuSE files (for the system I mean), since they do a lot of extra patching and backporting.

What is yum? I thought RH is the inventor of rpm, are they leaving it?

vincebs · 02-06-2004, 11:54 PM

Which is most user-friendly?

Which is the most stable?

Which is the most popular?

Which is most customizable?

Which one is the most resistant to user-induced breakage?

Which one has the easiest package management?

Which one supports the most hardware?

Which one is the fastest?

Which one could even an idiot use?