Linux Mint 9
Back in 1994 I started using Slackware. Remember how you had to configure x, your graphics adapter and your monitor to get a gui? HA, those were the times.. Now when I am installing Linux for someone, it is always Mint 9. Long term support and everything that they will need is already there. Put in a movie, open hulu, got to love it. lrfocke |
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Odd indeed that people have such divergent experiences. Thank the gods we have choices. More recently I have been testing Salix, thanks to these polls cluing me in, and becoming increasingly favorably impressed. Slackware w/o the masochism. |
Sadly enough, I have experienced more bugs in Mandriva than any other distro :/
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Attackpup
Attackpup V-1,comes with Wine,VirtualBox,IpTraf,gslapt to install packages from Slack,you can get a couple of pets(addons for puppy)deb2pet.pet & rpm2pet.pet that will convert and install deb and rpm packages,shareinternet(Puppy as a router).Small to download 325mb(on dial-up,so size does matter) recognised modems on 3 computers,full or frugal install or install to usb and take it anywhere.PuppyRocks!!!
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Ubuntu and Fedora are the buggiest distro's I've encountered, even the Ubuntu LTS releases. Six months to create a polished OS and kill all the bugs? No, just no.
openSUSE's nine-month cycle was a little better, but I'm not using it anymore since they decided to hop in bed with Microsoft. Debian stable + backports is perfect IMO. |
Slackware is the best!!!
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I've always gone with Ubuntu because it has the best online support base, but I got sick of them constantly changing the look and feel. Tried Debian, and loved it. Once you've used Ubuntu, Debian is easy to learn, and much cleaner.
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Here's an interesting take on distro popularity
http://www.zimbio.com/Linux/articles...cording+Google The fast-forward version is that the author looked to see how many pages Google found mentioning each distro. The top ten were Ubuntu, Fedora, openSuse, Debian, KNOPPIX, Mandriva, Gentoo, PCLinuxOS, Slackware, MEPIS. Of course, it's probably impossible to measure distro popularity. At this site, Slackware is over-represented and Suse under-represented. Distro Watch merely reports enquiries, many of which may end with "Well, I certainly don't want that one!" The page-counting approach conflates frequent usage (Ubuntu) and frequent cries for help (I'm not going there ...) |
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The one thing I noticed about most distro lists, they all include the same 5 distros ranked at the top of any list.
Slackware Redhat/Fedora Debian SuSe/openSuse Mandrake/Mandriva They just won't go away and alot of newer distros are based on one of them, including Ubuntu! |
@ fred
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I decided to give Ubuntu a try last week but it crashed a few hours later on a system update and upon reset either froze at the login screen (could not switch to tty or ssh/ping box) or if I booted into recovery mode I received a kernel panic.
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