Red Hat Linux 8.0 Pro is the only Linux distro I've tried & I like it.

I used red hat 8 and thought it was awful, I went to 7.3 and never looked back (or forward) red hat 9 is very good, but I still like my 7.3.
College Linux is awesome too.

I must agree with yowwww, i've used Red Hat 5.2, 7, 7.3, 8 and 9... My favorite Red Hat versions are 7.3 and 9... I hate Red Hat 8...

I think it's time to go to RH 9. I lost my copy of 7.x, and I want to get rid of this 8 NOW. Yech

I tried Rehat 9.0 for 3 days, then went back to 7.3.

Roll your own meta distribution. I am migrating to Gentoo. .

hmm.. i think i'll try Gentoo too...

I am currently using Gentoo, but am only mildly happy with it. It could just be my lack of familiarity with the tools they picked, but It has been more of a hindrance to me and I may wind up dropping back to RedHat.

Some complaints;

1. No "vi"! What valid *nix O/S does not have the "Virtually Impossible" editor? I am a vi junkie, I use the "ESC,:,w,q" in Emacs, Word, Notepad, etc.. all the time. Love it!!!

2. Compile times on a P3 633MHZ system with 256MB RAM is unacceptable. I downloaded and compiled (emerged) OpenOffice and it took all of 24 straight hours. The download was nothing with DSL, it was the compile time that took forever.

3. mod_php will not compile. This may be my fault for not understanding/using the "USE" options or whatever they are. I don't have time to learn them. I kind of like the old rpm commands.

enough for now,
Jeremiah

it seems that there are a fiew probs that I have to consider before trying Gentoo.... I'll search for more reviews first....

Just installed RHEL 9.2. Not much has changed in the 20 years since the thread was started. What with the recent dustup regarding upstream sources, I figured I'd give it a try again... let's just say I was underwhelmed. I did find one thing I liked, though, and it's been around a long time - yum history. I heart my deb-based distros (currently on LMDE 5), but I do wish they'd get some kind of history function so that installs could be reverted without pain and suffering. Interestingly, I couldn't tell much diff between RHEL 8 and 9, other than some kernel, bash, and package updates.

Oracle Linux. It's like RHEL minus all the nonsense.

...except for the fact that Oracle Linux *IS* Red Hat Enterprise, but tweaked/customized by Oracle for database performance/installation. Kind of like saying the blue Chevrolet's run better than the green ones.

I have extensively tested all the Linux systems listed in DistroWatch's top 200, and I would say that I feel these are the most useful systems I have come across:

Easy and for AMD/Intel/Nvidia users: mageia, Nobara Project, Mint, ROSA Fresh, Neptune, openKylin, GhostBSD, siduction, ALT Sisyphus, openSUSE, EndeavourOS
Average and for AMD/Intel users: Devuan, Void Linux, OpenBSD, Clear Linux, Artix Linux, DragonFly BSD, Alpine Linux, FreeBSD
Average and for Nvidia users: Void Linux, Artix Linux, FreeBSD