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Gonzalo_VC · 02-21-2013, 02:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Rezan

My dream distro would be fedora kde4 codeks gcard drivers all essential progs(vlc,win,libreoffice,,,,).idont have speed internet to help me make it .and that y i want it to have codeks out of the box . Hehe ironic ha

What about Kubuntu, then?
I know is some other distro's family, but it's KDE, nice, and with some codecs.
There are other distros with KDE that include codecs, perhaps in the RPM family Mandriva, Mageia, PCLinuxOS can be helpful.

Rezan · 02-22-2013, 08:01 AM

Mandriva power pack was the first linuxdistro/love of min i hope mandriva will retain some of its glory ,,,but i have 2 problem :my old pc that corrupted hdisck don't install linux any more and some distro don't even boot the dvd/cd as pclinux and the other problem i don't have internet connection except on mobil phone wich i use to write this ,,,,i used ubunto but not realy into it,,i want to try mageia, i read nice feadback on itnernt about it,,,, and there is korara too its federa plus kde .,, there is ojuba wich is fedora based/compatibl ,its toward arab speakers but i think others can us it smoothly . But all of that dosnt fill my needs,, i want to be a"linuxsmith" but don't have resources ,,,, sad thing haa

vectrum · 02-24-2013, 02:40 AM

crudo

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Originally Posted by crudo

Slackware, just the best! Not only for desktop, but all my servers!

Hats off to you.
My thumb is UP

vectrum · 02-24-2013, 02:48 AM

Now I feel happy 'cause I use most of the applications (except mongodb, pidgin android and games) that got the highest number of votes.
I use 'irssi' and in db section I use gdbm (sometimes berkeley db).
There should have been a competition between clang and gcc (doesn't matter whether clang is a wrapper or not). I like 'n use gcc.

vectrum · 02-24-2013, 03:26 AM

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Originally Posted by justcallmejim

Same thing that makes this pole both useless and interesting at the same time.

Slack should have been the No. 1 -- all we need to tweak the limits.
Are server distros coming from far away galaxies?

Ryupower · 02-24-2013, 08:22 PM

interesting

jordinja · 02-26-2013, 10:35 AM

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Originally Posted by justcallmejim

Database of the Year - MySQL (40.00%)
Too few people know about MariaDB even as distributions are starting to default to it?

Looks like the tide is turning though...
Is it time for Oracle to donate MySQL to Apache? on ZDNet

mipia · 02-27-2013, 03:05 PM

So we have a large segment of KDE using Slackers. Why the hell did I leave?

*cough* well then, hello. I've come back after 10.1.
It's been a long time.

brainvision · 03-02-2013, 04:51 AM

yahhuu!! Slackware number 1!

prushik · 03-09-2013, 10:31 AM

Why don't we have a Package Management category?

Also, somebody should base a new distro on Slackware including all the winning software. Just for fun, see if it becomes the most popular distro.

pcardout · 03-14-2013, 05:35 PM

I remember for several years that Gnome was the Desktop environment that won this survey. That seems to have been ceded to KDE because the Gnome guys
"broke" it by being Tablet and App fan-boys. Ever since Gnome became annoying, I have used XFCE (like Linus) when not at the command line.

TobiSGD · 03-14-2013, 05:55 PM

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Originally Posted by pcardout

I remember for several years that Gnome was the Desktop environment that won this survey. That seems to have been ceded to KDE because the Gnome guys
"broke" it by being Tablet and App fan-boys. Ever since Gnome became annoying, I have used XFCE (like Linus) when not at the command line.

While there maybe a decline in users of Gnome because of the design decisions the developers made I would think that larger influence on these numbers comes from the fact that Gnome isn't anymore the default desktop on the most used distro out there, Ubuntu.

mamunsultanpur · 03-15-2013, 03:04 AM

Yes this is helpful to everyone. Many many thanks for the authore

bloody · 03-15-2013, 04:42 AM

Konsole huh? How come...

Any KDE user ever tried anything else? Like ... Terminator?

Debian: well it's not a 'fanboy' issue. It's the #1 most-used distro for servers worldwide, see: http://w3techs.com/technologies/hist...tails/os-linux

vim? Oh Jesus... must be all these Slackware guys who voted for this one. :P

Games: obviously spanning over too many genres to be conclusive/useful in any way.

Rest seems reasonable. Congrats..

pcm_man · 03-15-2013, 10:13 AM

I'd love to see a listing of the first top ten in each category. Is it possible we could see that list? Distrowatch only gives the top desktop distro being downloaded but does nothing for any application.

It would help a lot of people who wish to find good open source games or office aps if we had that list.

Thanks very much for having this website! pcm