No problem, it really is the way to go. I have found that I prefer to use the console vs. GUI for package management, regardless of distro.

Have they changed the name? It used to be LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) not LAME.

That was LAME of me. Sorry. It was a senior moment.

Gentoo: ultra configurable - i'm the captain there. For my main workstation.
Debian: rock-solid, low-maintenance, for installations i don't wanna fiddle much with.

*buntu eventually always leads back to Debian, because once you got the knack of it (Debian-based Linux), Debian for itself is way more solid & reliable innit?

Pretty much, I think, yes. Though I do find myself running Sid so as not to have to play with apt-pinning all the time to get more modern packages.

I use Debian-stable for my backup systems (those that are booted to backup the other systems) and for servers, and a Debian-stable VirtualBox desktop as reference system for testing if my self-written software runs on really old library versions (hoho), and a Debian-unstable VirtualBox desktop to check out some new package versions, especially gcc and clang.
The rest runs on Gentoo. :P

pclinuxos

Well I started off in backtrack, then found Debian and fell in love. But it wasn't until I installed CentOS for having to study RedHat on that really made my eyes glow. I just love the system, blows Debian away by far. Theres free RedHat documentation for just about anything and it really helps you to do anything you want. I just love everything about it, and used to hate RedHat because it was commercial stuff, but it is very easy to manage and why would I want something that difficult to use? I guess theres always going to be a next level of "Im hardcore" but I don't know about you or others, Im not looking to be glued to the chair all day and stress out just to be cool because I know BSD or slackware to use straight CLI. Frankly, I wouldn't even use a computer if it was just CLI, whats the point? Why do I need to be on the damn thing?

RedHat/CentOS gives me everything I want, excellent performance, manageability (chkconfig, service, yum, rpm -qa, etc), documentation for FREE (for centos if you read RH docs), the GUI is there because I use it wholeheartedly for research, music, movies, web browsing, etc. And I got my shell for all my commands I need to execute. I tried to use debian recently and could not believe how slow and shitty it actually ran. I'm just so happy with CentOS that I can't believe its free and would without a doubt pay $200 a year to use it if I had to. So what if its RPM-based. You can always install from source if you're so hard, or build an RPM yourself and stop complaining. RPMs can suck if they are third-party but if you fork over a little cash, you can use RH and never worry.

CLI interface is just as or more important than GUIs. Personally, I use both where appropriate because each has their pros and cons.

Slackware is the distro I hold in the highest esteem, I haven't found another more solid, reliable, or just all around interesting, I have to admit though I haven't been running it much lately. I won't use any of the buntus or any based on them. Currently I'm using Pclinux mainly because they still use grub legacy as well as the fact that was my first distro back in 2007.
But intellectually I have to say Slackware is really the best imho.

I did mention I use both just as much, but if it was just CLI, whats the point? Whats there to do on there if you aren't a sysadmin making money? Unless you just like to spend your days developing something, thats cool too I guess.

I can't tell you which one it is, because the first rule of Slackware is you don't talk about Slackware.

The second rule is a symlink to the first one.

The reason is because Patrick sounds the Gjallarhorn when Red Hat and systemd approach Himinbjörg to lay waste to the realm of Gods. Patrick sacrificed his hand in the maw of GNOME when he shackled it in Helheim, where it belongs.

The UFO that crashed in Roswell obviously did not run Slackware. The Monolith, however, had a sticker that read "Got Slack?". HAL9000 ran Arch.

After installing Slackware on a new partion, /dev/sda1 has gone 193 days without being checked, check forced.

The third rule of Slackware is you do not ask questions. Especially about teTeX.

The fourth rule is you have to trust Patrick, and in Patrick we trust.

After a few nights at Slackware, you have no problem driving within the speed limit.

Slackware caused the extinction of the neanderthals: they realized they were obsolete and voluntarily died.

SLACKWARE IS ULTRA-VIOLENCE.

Got Slack?

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Bwahahha ... worth printing and sticking at my wall.

Regards

CentOS
because
It provides a free enterprise class computing platform which has 100% binary compatibility with its upstream source, RHEL.

CentOS developers use Red Hat's source code to create a final product very similar to RHEL. Red Hat's branding and logos are changed because Red Hat does not allow them to be redistributed.