How many distros have you used?
 

I'm not going to post a poll with this, but how many distros have you been through? I.e. used, discarded and went on...and what are you using now? Is it the distro you want to stick with?

I'd like to say "all of them", but I'm sure there's some obscure distro I've missed out there somewhere.

I use Slack as my main distro and am currently playing around with Ubuntu just to see if I can break it. (again) :D

Lol-break it? Define...make it freeze? Thats pretty easy.

Not all of them...yet. Think I'll give Debian Etch another go, I only had it on a couple of days last time. Eventually I think I'll settle down with Slack.

my first distro back in the 2001 was Redhat-7.1 after watching Win98 BSOD & have various other problems i seen how stable Linux was and thought it was the coolest thing since peanutbutter and have since totally abandoned ms-windows, by the time REdhat-7.3 came out i seen it came on 3 CDs and felt that was rather bloated, so i try various other distros and settled on Slackware-8.1, i been a happy slacker ever since.

i do keep an extra disk partition for testing out other distros but Slackware will most likely be my main working distro...

if you really want to learn linux under the hood use slackware or crux or arch...

Mmm, I can't remember how many distros I have used but I suspect its more than 25. Some are now obsolete or have been absorbed by others e.g. libranet, corel, jamd, conectiva and lycoris. I currently use Gentoo on my main desktop, but run Mandriva, Fedora, openSUSE and CentOS on other machines. I have been generally pleased with Gentoo, but I am thinking of migrating back to Mandriva or openSUSE on my main desktop.

I've tried several, mainly:
Slackware
RedHat
Mandrake
Debian
Ubuntu
Puppy
DSL
Kanotix
Knoppix
Kaella
Adamantix
Trustix
Whoppix
Whax
Backtrack
Mandriva
OpenSuse
Debian
Debian
Debian

I don't manage to get out of Debian, looks like I'm stuck for the rest of my life :)

Just try and try until you find one that fits you

mandrake
suse
ubuntu
debian
knoppix
memtest++
LFS
BLFS
ubuntu
opensuse
slackware

Not that many... I started with a RedHat that I downloaded with some guys from school. That confused the hell out of me, so I went back to windows.

Since returning to Linux, i've used RedHat again, Mandrake/driva, SuSE, Debian, FC, *buntu, Damn Small, Knoppix, CentOS, Xandros, Linspire (incredibly briefly). I think that's about it.

Sticking with Debian for the time being. Want to try Gentoo and Slackware, though.

I've collected about 70 gnu/linux distributions over time. My favorite being gentoo.

The first few were in order when I first started using Linux:

TurboLinux 3.0
Redhat 6.0
Redhat 6.1
Redhat 6.2
Corel Linux 1.0 (Horrible, lasted like an hour)
Debian (Don't recall version, 2.x something)
Slackware 7.0
Slackware 7.1
Slackware 8.0
Linux From Scratch (Don't recall exact version)
Mandrake 7.0
Mandrake 7.2
Suse 6.4
Redhat 7.0
Redhat 7.2
Redhat 7.3
Redhat 8.0
Redhat 9.0
Slackware 3.5
Slackware 8.1
Slackware 9.0
Redhat AS 2.0
Redhat AS 3.0
Redhat Workstation 3.0
Redhat EL 3.0
Redhat EL 4.0
Mandrake 8.0
CentOS 3.8
CentOS 4.0
CentOS 4.4
Fedora Core 2
Fedora Core 3
Fedora Core 4
Fedora Core 5
Slackware 9.1
Slackware 10.0
Slackware 10.1
Slackware 10.2
Slackware 11.0
Suse Enterprise Server 7.0
Puppy Linux (Don't recall version)
Peanut (Don't recall version)
Lindows (Reviewing it)
Xandros 2.0
Xandros 3.0
Damn Small Linux (Don't recall version)
Gentoo (Don't recall version)
Arch (Don't recall version)
Smoothwall (Don't recall version)
College Linux (Don't recall version)
Vector (Don't recall version)

And probably a few others not worth mentioning or forgotten.. But for the most part, Slackware for home and my own servers and Redhat/CentOS at work.

Mandrake 9.x (First step into Linux)
Redhat 9

Then various versions of:
Debian
Fedora Core
CentOS
Slackware
Ubuntu
SuSE
slax
Arch

Arch is the one that feels like home. I like Slackware too, but I don't really get on with others. Also (I know its not a distro, but) FreeBSD runs on my server, it'd take a lot to persuade me to run some other OS on it.

My list isn't as long, but I have used various versions of:

Red Hat
Fedora
Freespire
Ubuntu
Kubuntu
Korarra (didn't like it)
Austrumi
Debian
gNewSense (gee-what a newsense)
Clusterix
LFS
LG3D
FreeSBIE
FreeBSD
Slackware
CentOS
Protech Beta
Knoppix

There are some others, but I can't remember which ones.

redhat
ubuntu
freebsd
solaris
puppy
dsl
slax
belenix(but fail badly ... i donno why)
still considering fedora/centos ... like i feel guilty or something ... ^_^


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[EDIT ::] have included slax which i never really use it ... run very slow on my machine(which is weaker in comparision) during first time "blindly" bootup ...



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Several:

Red Hat
Mandrake
Slackware
Gentoo
Debian
Fedora Core
MEPIS
openSUSE

I think that's about it. Currently use Slackware and always will (well, pretty much!). I have Debian my desktop as well and use that sometimes.