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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?
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.
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.
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.
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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