For Slackware fans: What's your 2nd fav OS?

hitest · 12-15-2006, 10:19 PM

I've been running Ubuntu at work for quite some time and it is rock solid. But, I'm enjoying using ports in FreeBSD to compile from source. It is a tough choice, but, my second favourite OS is now FreeBSD.

tuxrules · 12-16-2006, 12:26 AM

I am an avid Slackware user since 10.0. Started out with RH 9 and then tried Fedora and SuSE for a while. My 2nd favorite OS is Arch. Arch is very much like Slackware with added advantage of Pacman. Also Arch's wiki is very nicely done with lots of good info.

I am also running Debian Etch and Fedora Core 6 (installed a few days back) but I'll most likely replace it with either Mepis or Zenwalk. I am kinda in two minds right now.

pdw_hu · 12-16-2006, 05:57 AM

I don't have another favorite (read: i've no need to use anything else), but if i would i'd probably go with gentoo.

dosterberg · 12-16-2006, 06:32 PM

I use Suse 10.1 because it installed with few problems and it works pretty well, but, it is slow compared to Slack, and hiding behind the GUI has kept me from learning how to dig in and make things work the way I want. Between Slack 11 and Suse I can do everything I want, but I prefer Slackware going forward.

I am concerned about Novell's partnership with Microsoft, and I may be leaving Suse behind.

hussar · 12-16-2006, 06:41 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by introuble

Just curious what other Operating Systems Slackware fans like/love. You can give reasons too :-)

P.S.: If your favourite OS is not Slackware, vote for your favourite OS [and specify this in a post if you will]

I read through four pages of replies, and so far no one has mentioned that debian, gentoo, ubuntu, zenwalk, etc. are not operating systems, they are distributions of the GNU/linux operating system.

Examples of other "operating systems" would be Windows (listed in the poll), Solaris, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, FreeDOS, Plan9, BeOS, etc.

If sometime after the fourth page, someone else mentioned this discrepancy, I apologize for wasting your time.

BTW, my second favorite OS is Mac OS X.

dosnlinux · 12-16-2006, 07:44 PM

Wow!

OSX isn't on that list!

I chose SUSE mainly because it's the only distro I've had installed for over a day. I'd like to try Arch, but I get past the install and give up. (You Arch users have my undying respect)

FreeDOS is really cool, and I would like to try using ReactOS as a replacement for Windows but the installer doesn't like my partition table for some reason

Slackware is by far the best OS I've used

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pdw_hu · 12-17-2006, 07:49 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hussar

...are not operating systems, they are distributions of the GNU/linux operating system....

FreeBSD, OpenBSD...

These aren't OS-es either, they are just versions of BSD

hussar · 12-17-2006, 08:35 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by pdw_hu

These aren't OS-es either, they are just versions of BSD

I would say they are different OS's because you can't swap the kernels out and packages from each of them need to be recompiled to run on the other.

jstephens84 · 12-17-2006, 01:11 PM

gnu/linux is one os whild *bsd is another along with OS X and Windows. However slackware, gentoo, ubuntu, and so on are all distro's with different ideas. People still confuse linux as an os. It is just the kernel.

mnemonix · 12-17-2006, 11:39 PM

Definitely Windows ...
Still using it for games

FredGSanford · 12-18-2006, 01:08 AM

Slackware & Debian has never let me down when it came to installing a distro. I've had problems, not in the past couple of years, with some distros such as Suse, Mandrake, Fedora and some others that just wouldn't act rite.

But everytime I installed Slack & Debian they would work like a charm, no fuss, no mess, no runs & no errors.

hitest · 12-18-2006, 08:13 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FredGSanford

Slackware & Debian has never let me down when it came to installing a distro. I've had problems, not in the past couple of years, with some distros such as Suse, Mandrake, Fedora and some others that just wouldn't act rite.

But everytime I installed Slack & Debian they would work like a charm, no fuss, no mess, no runs & no errors.

I'm very fond of Debian as well, I ran Etch beta 3 and liked it a lot. I may run it again when Etch is formally released.

folkenfanel · 12-18-2006, 08:57 AM

Hi

My favorite OSes/distros

0)My own

It's a customized Slackware!
1)Slackware Linux (rocks and rules)
2)Kurumin Linux (www.guiadohardware.net/kurumin), you can call it a grandchild of Debian
3)Slax Linux
4)OSX
5)Solaris
6)Windows ME (I use it to play PristonTale only)
7)Mandriva One Linux
8-.....)Many, many others I've tried and don't remember

todders · 12-18-2006, 02:24 PM

my second favourite has to be pclinuxos,i have even donated for the pass server,i have tried a lot of distro`s since october,Madriva 2007,Ubuntu,Fedora Core 6,Knoppix,Simply Mepis,Kantonix,Zenwalk,nothing compares to the speed i get in slackware 11.0 with kde,iam running an old computer here pentium 3 800e with 640mb of ram but the responsiveness of the system is superb,i love slackware...

thanks

adrian

hitest · 12-18-2006, 06:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by todders

my second favourite has to be pclinuxos,i have even donated for the pass server,i have tried a lot of distro`s since october,Madriva 2007,Ubuntu,Fedora Core 6,Knoppix,Simply Mepis,Kantonix,Zenwalk,nothing compares to the speed i get in slackware 11.0 with kde,iam running an old computer here pentium 3 800e with 640mb of ram but the responsiveness of the system is superb,i love slackware...

thanks

adrian

Yeah, I sometimes vaguely think about trying another version of Linux, but, no other version of Linux is as responsive as Slack. I'm a slacker for life:-)