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Old 11-25-2003, 05:06 AM   #1
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Poll:What is the Best Distro?



Which Disto in your opnion would you say is the best?

There are so many out there, its hard to list them all, but what would you guys say in your experience is the best distro?
 
Old 11-25-2003, 05:22 AM   #2
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Old 11-25-2003, 07:58 AM   #3
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SUSE, no doubt. Why? Because it works; it's solid, stable, cutting edge, easy to configure with many other pluses.
 
Old 11-25-2003, 08:01 AM   #4
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http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...hreadid=116355

and a million others.
 
Old 11-25-2003, 03:26 PM   #5
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gentoo for time time being. i'm tryin the slack on the distrotester right now, but in the meantime, gentoo is great for speed.
 
Old 11-30-2003, 02:59 AM   #6
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It looks like Slackware is in the lead there digiot.

I'll have to get me a copy and take it for a test drive.
 
Old 11-30-2003, 04:40 AM   #7
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Quote:
Originally posted by Tuvok
SUSE, no doubt. Why? Because it works; it's solid, stable, cutting edge, easy to configure with many other pluses.
Being easy to configure doesn't make a distribution the best; also went to some RPM dependency hell already? :-)
 
Old 12-03-2003, 02:29 PM   #8
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ARCH

So fast.....and friendly people
 
Old 12-03-2003, 03:10 PM   #9
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Originally posted by kokaine
It looks like Slackware is in the lead there digiot.
I'll have to get me a copy and take it for a test drive.
ya and Mandrake has a huge lead over RH, Debian, and Gentoo also....LOL
 
Old 12-04-2003, 09:09 AM   #10
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Best Distro
SuSE is far and again best in my mind. Why is there no SuSE Forum?
 
Old 12-04-2003, 10:38 AM   #11
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Wow...that's SUCH an original question...I can't imagine why no one around here EVER thought to ask this before.




We really need a sarcasm tag
 
Old 12-04-2003, 11:12 AM   #12
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Why is there no SuSE Forum?
Browse this forum, there is a thread going on for quite some time now in why we don't have one, our policy in adding one and so on.

Regards.
 
Old 12-06-2003, 01:52 AM   #13
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tcaptain, I guess thats why so many people replied
 
Old 12-06-2003, 02:10 AM   #14
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I was a faithful follower of redhat for a while. Right now Im using 9. I don't know about this new v3 thing. Looks like redhat is trying to get paid like Bill Gates.
 
Old 12-06-2003, 02:48 AM   #15
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1. Debian
2. Slackware
3. Mandrake

I have been using debian (sid) for a long time and I love it.
 
  


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