LXer: Which Linux distro would you save?

LXer · 04-30-2013, 09:10 PM

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Imagine you were told that only 5 Linux distributions could be saved. Which Linux distributions would you choose to keep?

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Timothy Miller · 04-30-2013, 09:33 PM

Neat concept. Also at this moment somewhat surprising results with Debian being fairly well pulling away with the lead and Slackware being only in 4th.

fogpipe · 04-30-2013, 10:22 PM

I cant beleive the votes some of those distros have. You could build the bubblegum distros from left over bits of slackware, i dont think you can say the reverse.

brianL · 05-01-2013, 08:18 AM

After thinking about it for a couple of seconds:
1: Slackware (surprise, surprise!)
2: Debian
3: Arch
4: Fedora (or OpenSuse?)
5: Gentoo

ruario · 05-01-2013, 08:49 AM

nice list brianL, did you intentionally pick distros with different packaging formats. a nice way to retain most of the diversity and the fact that these are parent distros to most of the others.

brianL · 05-01-2013, 09:11 AM

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Originally Posted by ruario

nice list brianL, did you intentionally pick distros with different packaging formats. a nice way to retain most of the diversity and the fact that these are parent distros to most of the others.

Thanks. Yeah, that's more or less what I tried to do.

Timothy Miller · 05-01-2013, 10:20 AM

Honestly, the only 3 I think if it was my decision I'd bother saving is:

Debian
Slackware
Mageia

273 · 05-01-2013, 10:40 AM

I'd pick:
1) Debian (Obviously, since it's my main distro. Mint and the *buntus don't add value for me personally.)
2) Slackware (One I use on and off and will keep going back to.)
3) Fedora (Similarly to Slackware, though I'm not as keen [blame a slight dislike of RPM])
Then I would have to admit ignorance of Gentoo, Arch and others.
Personally I would be happy with just the three I listed but I'm glad others exist.

H_TeXMeX_H · 05-01-2013, 11:05 AM

Why not have a poll for distros you want to get rid of ... *buntu.

Anyway I voted: Slackware, Arch, Debian, Gentoo, and Knoppix (you might need a live CD).

Myk267 · 05-01-2013, 01:48 PM

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Originally Posted by brianL

After thinking about it for a couple of seconds:
1: Slackware (surprise, surprise!)
2: Debian
3: Arch
4: Fedora (or OpenSuse?)
5: Gentoo

I picked those too. Get out of my head!