Best distro? (fast, stable, and a variety of precompiled packages)

Mr. Asdf · 06-20-2006, 05:03 AM

I guess I pretty much summed it up in the title.
I'm looking for a distro which is FAST, stable, and have a good variety of precompiled packages.
Until now I have used: Suse, Debian, Arch, and Slack.
Suse was pretty slow, Slack was fast but by then (slack 9) it didnt have much packages; Debian got deleted in a harddrisk crash, and Arch is what I use now. I'm looking for a faster distro, which will still have a good variety of packages.

So, any suggestions?

reddazz · 06-20-2006, 07:22 AM

We get this kind of question everyday and the answer is always to try several and settle on the one you like. Personally I think Arch is pretty fast, stable and has quite a lot of packages in its repos. The distros with most precompiled packages in their repos are Debian, Suse and Mandriva.

theYinYeti · 06-20-2006, 08:41 AM

Try the search feature: I know there's a thread somewhere, that is speaking about an online "survey-tool" that asks you a few questions and then tells you what distribution best suits you (and your hardware).

Yves.

jacook · 06-21-2006, 11:23 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by theYinYeti

Try the search feature: I know there's a thread somewhere, that is speaking about an online "survey-tool" that asks you a few questions and then tells you what distribution best suits you (and your hardware).

Yves.

http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/in...1594f1e4d7f3af

Hope this Helps,

Jake

Mr. Asdf · 06-22-2006, 09:27 AM

thanks jacook! couldn't find it with the search feature.

but I took the test, and hey what do you know, it gave me Slackware, Arch and Gentoo

I'm not going to install gentoo (too much time compiling), so it's slack or arch... meanwhile I think I'm going to stick with Arch.. heh