| Linux distros who likes what?
Posted: 3/25/2006 11:07:10 AM | I started with mandrake (years ago), then moved to slackware, then tried several (LFS, debian, vectorlinus) then found gentoo. Fell in love, but because nowadays I'm too busy with real work, I switched back to debian. Now love it instead :)
In yer face gentoo. | |
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| Linux distros who likes what?
Posted: 3/25/2006 8:43:42 PM | I'm still a newbie in the Linux Arena, but I've tried SuSe, Knoppix axd recently Slax Killbill Live.
Slax was great because it could open all my windows apps, big problem is it wouldn't support my Wifi. Suse supported the Wifi but I had a few problems with it loosing the configurations and of course there was no support for the windows based chit I need to continue using.
Knoppix is a great intro into what linux can do.
As for what I like best, I'm still banging muh head on that one, I just wich I had time to look into it more. | |
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| Linux distros who likes what?
Posted: 3/27/2006 7:47:28 AM | VMWare is not "crap". It has significant technical merit and you'd be silly to deny that.
Xen is great if you're using OSS software that supports it, although it's a bit flaky (I hope they've solved the annoying emulated NIC problems that caused hanging under high load in the early Xen-3.0 releases).
For everything else, VMWare is the only choice (VirtualPC is ... not an option for non-Windows/Mac hosts, and even then not so good, and yes, I own a copy of that too ;-)
VMWare is not slow if you install the VMWare toolkit on the guest OS to accelerate various pieces of emulated hardware.
The only thing I find VMWare slow for is graphics, and even then only for games or 3D accelerated stuff. I can even watch movies on a VMWare guest OS. For CPU-bound tasks it seems to have minor overhead (10-20% guesstimate). You also have to make sure the host OS isn't running low on memory - nothing worse than both the host and guest OSs swapping out to HDD.
VMWare is incredibly convenient and suites my needs (and past customer's needs) well, in my opinion. | |
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abw73
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Joined: 3/28/2006
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| Linux distros who likes what?
Posted: 3/28/2006 9:55:58 PM | I've used Solaris, FreeBSD, and Red Hat quite a bit. Solaris is a great OS, but its also a living hell to fix when things break. I spent a few days fixing a server crash once. I liked FreeBSD quite a bit. Right now my second computer (on an 8 port KVM) is Fedora Core 2. I don't feel like upgrading the OS. It is perfectly fine to me.
My next machine is going to be FreeBSD 6.
The only negative I have with Linux over Windows is the multimedia sucks. Windows does support it better. Otherwise, for stability, OPEN SOURCE, free software, etc... Linux is hands down the winner.
I am yet to crash a Linux machine. Can't say the same for Windows. | |
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Posted: 4/2/2006 3:16:56 AM | I am yet to crash a Linux machine. Can't say the same for Windows.
"Crash" is a relative term on Linux. I've created a few situations where I've had to ssh in from another computer to reboot it... rogue X11 apps can render your keyboard/mouse/monitor useless :) | |
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| Linux distros who likes what?
Posted: 4/16/2006 6:11:45 PM | | Right now I am running Mepis (my favorite by far) but I also like PCLinuxOS, ZenWalk, Xandros and Linspire. All five include multimedia support and are easy to set up. | |
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Posted: 5/7/2006 7:06:01 PM | | I'm running FC4 on my pc at the moment, going to switch to Ubuntu 6.04 when it exits beta. Ubuntu 5.10 on my parent's computer. Familiar 0.8.2 on my Jornada. Pocket wardriving is the best! | |
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Posted: 5/8/2006 5:41:00 PM | Gentoo and Debian are my weapons of choice.
As long as it's not Windows it's all good.
Unfortunatly, I only have my work's lappy with XP at the moment...   | |
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| Linux distros who likes what?
Posted: 5/8/2006 6:52:25 PM | | Could always do Live version on the laptop, or dual boot.... just to keep the work folk happy. | |
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Posted: 5/10/2006 10:09:25 PM | | I'm running an Ubuntu 5.10 with the VMplayer by VMware - It's stripped down to only have Firefox running - they call if a browser appliance. How freakin' cool is that? Most of our internal apps are write in .NET and therefore IE is the only browser and our security policy won't allow Mozilla or Opera of any flavor - so fire up the free VMplayer, mount the browser appliance .VMZ and no worries... | |
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Posted: 5/11/2006 9:52:03 AM | | I've gone to CentOS on the servers with Ubuntu on the desktops and life is good. Certainly a far cry from the 'old days'. I also run a CentOS version on VMWare on my XP laptop. It's a great way to test the crap out of things without blowing your apps all to hell and back. And convenient for dev purposes as well. | |
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| Linux distros who likes what?
Posted: 5/12/2006 4:19:44 AM |
I really enjoy apt.
I'm a SuSE user, but I agree with you on that 100%.
Apt for SuSE does exist, but the repositories were broken all to hell and gone last time I tried it a few months ago. Hosed my system so bad I had to reinstall.
OpenSuSE 10.1 was released yesterday. I'm going to give it a few weeks for all the kinks to get worked out and bugs squashed before I install it. | |
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Posted: 5/12/2006 4:21:46 AM |
The only negative I have with Linux over Windows is the multimedia sucks.
Get Mplayer. You won't be sorry | |
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| Linux distros who likes what?
Posted: 5/16/2006 9:08:43 PM | I started out messing around with "Red Hat Linux 5" some years ago.
I switched to Debian when I got sick of the "reinstall" feature of most Linux distributions. I haven't EVER reinstalled a Debian system. I can update/upgrade any box, easily.
I run mostly Linux at home, and use it at work for some things. In fact, I would prefer to be running Linux all the time, because I find the environment friendlier and easier to use. By friendlier I mean, I haven't been made unable to do certain intuitive and obvious things, merely because Microsoft thought I should have to pay more to do them. For example, Microsoft puts artificial limits on what your computer can do, so they can create products that they charge more money for. I'm not against paying for software, but I do think that Microsoft has gotten to big for even their enormous britches. I hope that they get marginalized, and that Linux and Apple each get a chunk of the market, as Microsoft mighty Windows empire slowly crumbles away to nothing. Hey, a fellow can dream, can't he?
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| Linux distros who likes what?
Posted: 5/17/2006 4:08:37 PM | The only negative I have with Linux over Windows is the multimedia sucks.
Depends which distribution. Linux is the platform to make animation movies off of, so obviously the potential is there. So what do you mean by multimedia sucking? Web-integrated multimedia? Ability to play different videos and music?
PcLinuxOS, out of the box, has an awesome multimedia setup that I haven't seen in any distro, and clearly beats the tar out of Windows out of the box. Yes, that's right... I said it. Less hassles for a Linux distro over Windows. Don't beleive me?
It will play all video codecs, out of the box, with awesome multimedia video apps (Kaffeine, Xine). It also comes with Amarok, which is arguably the best music player programs out there -- with built in itunes support, album cover downloads, streaming radio, etc. (not to mention an awesome design). Never having to search and download a new video codec, is awesome. A general one-click update of all system stuff can update codecs (among everything else) if a rare new one just came out.
Web-integrated multimedia -- that's where Linux can stagger. However, with PCLinuxOS, it's sweet as hell. Within Konqueror, Firefox, and Opera -- integrated Java, Flash, and multimedia video playing is built in out of the freaking box. Within Opera, video play back compatability isn't always great -- and I dunno how well it reacts with Windows.
But with Konqueror it's fine (a few sites where it won't quite go), and with Firefox, I can hardly find a site where I can't play movie trailers and other streaming videos.
So all in all, when it comes to multimedia, that's where I LIKE Linux -- it took a couple years of PCLinuxOS to get to near-perfect point of web-integrated multimedia, but it's always been ahead of every commercial distribution in this arena.
And having DVD Player support? Easy for a grandmother. Just a few clicks from the update (apt-rpm get), from the already-linked repository, and in a few seconds, you have it done on your system (for legal reasons). | |
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Posted: 5/19/2006 6:22:07 AM | | I've only used Gentoo by force. All I did was graphics & surf the net. It never crashed & loved the fact that I couldn't get viruses. But now that my Linux helpers are no more, I'm on XP Pro64 & hate it with a passion, as none of my games or webcams work on it *kicks windows* | |
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| Linux distros who likes what?
Posted: 5/20/2006 11:52:56 AM | | Xandros, Slackware, Yoper, Vector, Kubuntu are what I've used I perfer Kubuntu overall some people have issues with it but after a few minutes of setting it up how I like it is a real winner I was thinking of switching to pure Debian but now that I've read about the next version of Kubuntu Edgy Eft it gives me a fair bit of hope so I may just stay where I am. I'm currently running Dapper Drake (current) | |
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Posted: 5/21/2006 9:30:39 PM | I personally use Debian for all my boxen.
I install Ubuntu for other people with great success. | |
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Posted: 5/25/2006 8:19:48 PM | why not ill put my 2 cents in....debian 3.1 for my servers Xen debian combo works very well together, PClinuxOS for my 7 yr old son(however not a good OS if your goal is to learn linux this one will keep you in your point and click mentality too much kinda like some other OS out there similar to ubuntu not wanting you to do anything without the point and click tools as well) I wasnt thrilled with ubuntu they dont like you messing under the hood at all in there but then again im not a fan of gnome too cartoonish i like KDE if im in a X11 screen havent had much time to scope out Kubuntu yet though, by far Gentoo for my deviant playtime mandrake sucks...lol.....its too fat like PClinuxOS but as for what i think will be a competitor for the home user PC market to Microlimp's XP or vista with the latest jump on the PClinuxOS development band wagon it will likely end up in more home user (AKA windoze idiots) computers since like others said i have stuck it on even old junkie HP celeron 700 with onboard video and got a wow i didnt have to edit a single X11 file it is one of the few that use the i810 onboard drvs which seem to work half way decent going on 2 months and my 7 yr old hasnt broke it yet....cant say that for setting him free with XP no more scratching my head thinking "what the hell did you do to make it do that" by far my child is the only beta tester i will ever need if there is a flaw he will find it in record time ....now if a nice multimedia little machine is your goal i have my tvtop system running cool-linux some stuff is broke but if your not new to linux they only take about a hr to fix YAY for my itunes on linux damn that pissed me off (all that crap is gonna do is piss off the ones like myself that dont steal the music i buy every bit and i have to say ALOT more now that i dont have to boot the old gates virus to listen to them) well thats just my 2 cents | |
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| Linux distros who likes what?
Posted: 5/25/2006 11:44:53 PM | I use Gentoo and Debian. The compile times with Gentoo aren't all that bad on current hardware especially if one installs the binaries for firefox and open-office. Besides Xorg those are the longest builds that I've encountered. It is great for learing how the system works, and I have had fewer weird dependency problems that with binary distros (even Debian).
As long as one isn't installing a lot of new stuff Debain is a dream to administer. It is solid, and like Gentoo it doesn't do a lot of hand-holding (but it does offer it if one wants his hand held).
Besides distros, what is everyone's favorite editor.
Vi, Emacs, or Pico/Nano.
I actually switch back and forth between Vi and Emacs depending on the environment that I'm working in at the moment, but I have to say that Vi has a slight edge. | |
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Posted: 5/26/2006 12:03:09 AM | | I used to use Debian, but I've been using Ubuntu for a while now, and it's good. I'll see how the Dapper Drake release is before I decide whether or not to go back to Debian. I miss some of the packages and stuff. | |
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| Linux distros who likes what?
Posted: 5/28/2006 6:35:08 AM | OK, I don't want to come out like an elitist here, but most GNU/Linux distro users who didn't hack kernel, built his/her own with LFS docs, fork off distro and hacked few source code seem to favor a distro with good functionality and usability of distro which just "works" off the install. Mostly FUD resulting in Gnome/KDE/Enlightenment/Xfce desktop and package manager. Some people just flat out states BSD as favorite when the topic is clearly "distros of linux".
Since this is dating site, I'll make a comparison as I find it relative. I think of distro as women. The more choice, the better chance I'll find one that I'll be comfortable with. Some people complain GNU/Linux distros are forking out of control, resulting in too many choices, but I disagree. Forking is good. (yes, you can replace -or- with -uc- any time to make 5th grade toilet jokes)
One thing is clear. Everyone found or are in progress of finding the one distro that fits his/her needs. Mine happens to be RHEL, Fedora Core and Slackware. I've been with Red Hat since found in a bookstore (if you didn't get that joke, never mind.) and I've been with Slackware since my college days. Both distro does exactly what I want to do and I have adapted around the Red Hat ways of doing things (sometimes idiotic so that hacking perl/bash script becomes daily chores). And I find Slackware's way of making things minimalistic structure very appealing, resulting in making my own fork of GNU/Linux distro out of Slackware for academic purpose.
Yes, I have tried and installed and used most distros out there, including live CD distros, but none of them did what I cannot do in RHEL/Fedora/Slackware. So why switch distro? | |
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