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English => Offtopic Section (Nonsense inside) => Small talk => Topic started by: Ateo on December 08, 2004, 06:39:23 AM
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Topic says it all. What distro do you use and why?
I use Gentoo because of portage, it's package management tool. Dependancy hell is pretty much eliminated. You can run 2 or more different versions of many packages, such as gtk, gcc, etc. It has an excellent forum community where people can usually find their answer (note I say "usually"). The most important aspect is optimization, per system and per package. The logo is neat (Larry the Cow). Last but not least, Gentoo's are the cutest animals on earth. They are a breed of penguins.
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Debian debian debian. is there any other? ;-)
sarge, btw.
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Mandrake !
Thepolish
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Hi !
SuSE 9.x ;)
Debian Sid + Experimental :S
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gentoo amd64 ;)
stefanero
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Debian SID
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When I was young...
I has used Conectiva Linux ( Guarani [2] to Snapshot [pre-10]).
Today, I'm a Happy Gentoo Linux User 8)
Conectiva? http://www.conectiva.com.br
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I'm the only one using Slackware?
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gentoo
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(http://www.ibiblio.org/web-gentoo/images/powered-small.png)
Can u recognize??? :D
:baby:Hail to Gentoo!!! :baby:
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I'm running Knoppix at the moment but run Mepis most of the time. I tend to run all of the Debain derived distros.
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(http://www.ibiblio.org/web-gentoo/images/powered-small.png)
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A lot of people haven't responded with *why* you use your distro. I could care less what you use.. What I'm interested in is why....
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I use Slack because it is the first I used a lot of years ago with kernel 1.0.something and I'm used to it....
I tryed many desktop distros with a lot of wizards, conf tools etc...
I like wizard and conf tools when they work perfectly, but too many times they were too limited, or had bugs or... something went wrong in some way, so I prefer to have my conf files changed manually. Furthermore I feel confortable with tgz packages managed with swaret (dependancies, auto-updates, etc...)
Bye
Frankk
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Why Debian? it's a religion...
:P
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Hehe. I can relate. Gentoo is my religion. :))
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Mandrake 10.1 because ist was the first I've found on google!
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Fedora Core release 3 (Heidelberg); Kernel 2.6.9-1.667
1st thing that came to mind. 8)
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Mandrake 10.1, mainly because this is the first time I've used linux at home 8o, but I think I'll probably move on to Gentoo when I feel more confident...
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Fedora Core 3...long time Red Hat user, so its the obvious choice. It's stable and easy to use, so why not?
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(http://www.slackware.com/~msimons/slackware/grfx/shared/divineSW.gif)
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Gentoo.
Why? One thing is portage, the package management. I used to use Debian before and just loved apt and its powers, and portage is quite similar. The reason I chose Gentoo over Debian is the support (forums, wiki, homepage) and the fact that many programs are in portage that aren't in Debian (many things not compliant to the DFSGL like mplayer etc...). And the fact that you can keep a system (quite) up to date without having to install relatively untested software (like in Debian unstable).
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I Use ubuntu because its small and there is good support.
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I use Fedora Gore 3, but I *really* prefer using solaris, especially since amule compiles in it! :D
Regards.
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@skolnick
What's so great on Solaris? Has it some advantages over linux?
cu
Mr Faber
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For me, stability. I have never ever been able to crash Solaris, but linux crashes fairly easy on my computer. Besides that, the amount of recently discovered linux (kernel) vulnerabilities is not good at all. Solaris seems to be more secure IMO. For a better understanding, check this: http://www.sun.com/solutions/documents/white-papers/Solaris-Linux-Whitepaper.pdf
Regards.
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Maybe Solaris has some advantages over linux but the biggest disadvantage and the reason why I never would use Solaris is Sun :D (maybe the will sometimes changes there behaviour)
Sun is IMHO more evil than microsoft because they want to split/destroy the open source community. They are a wolf in sheep's clothing. The only use open source to have a chance against Microsoft and now Linux. If they would have the power of Microsoft they would do the same or more evil.
The only positive thing on Sun is OpenOffice but they only do this because without it they haven't any chance against Microsoft Office.
cu
Mr Faber
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I use (k)ubuntu
Why? It's my first distro... small and quite simple...
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A slack fanatic coz IMO its a good and solid distro. Now i'm making the move to Solaris 10 (sparc).
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My first distro was Slackware 3. Since then I've tried FC3, Mandrake 10, Knoppix and Ubuntu. I'm back to using Slack-current (with 2.6 kernel) because it's not TOO user friendly. I don't like the software making all the decisions for me on how everything should be installed and configured. I'd rather make those choices myself. Swaret makes keeping my current distro current, also. (I check the changelogs daily.)
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Slackware, because it's simple, fast, have no freaky dependences in packages.
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I'm currently using FC4 because I have used Fedora the most and find it easiest for that reason alone.
I've also tried Suse 9.2, Solaris10, Ubuntu and Knoppix. All were sufficiently different to Fedora to make even the simplest of tasks difficult for me. Since I've got little spare time and no interest in learning a heap of new crap just to do what I can already do easily elsewhere, I've always reverted back to what I can use effortlessly. I know that sounds lazy but when you're a lowly peon being crushed under John Howard's Industrial Retaliations machine, you don't have much time for yourself, your wife , your children or your mistress (computer).
Amusing the self-deprecating shamed approach people seem to take when "admitting" to using FC4. Come on guys, do we need a Fedora Pride march or something? :D
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(http://img286.imageshack.us/img286/7719/slack110nq.png)
:D
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Suse 9.0, as it's stable and runs for years...
Client PC(s): WinXP :)
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Mandriva 2005LE.
Because Mandrake 7.1 was my first distro (5 years ago, go figure :rolleyes:), I tried all of the releases, tried Suse, RedHat, Gentoo, Slackware, Debian, (K)ubuntu (Hmmm, not bad at all), and came back to Mandrake/Mandriva, because I'm lazy, and mainly because I know it well, so I can tweak the scripts a bit 8o
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Xaignar,
I see you use Arch now. What are your impressions? I am thinking about a change here.
Cheers!
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I use Debian Stable (currently Sarge), because stability is more important for me than having the newest versions of software (exception: aMule ;).
And of course I do not use a commercial distribution like SuSE or Mandrake for example, because I do not want to be dependent of intransparent marketing strategies.
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Been using linux for over 10 years... Slack, RedHat, LFS and Suse.
For the last 2 years maybe, I'm a gentoo user. Cause I can define how I want it to be copiled and more optimization.
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Originally posted by To
Been using linux for over 10 years... Slack, RedHat, LFS and Suse.
For the last 2 years maybe, I'm a gentoo user. Cause I can define how I want it to be copiled and more optimization.
I can too on my debian AMD64.
I want it:
a) Compiled with default options
b) Compiled for AMD64.
There, done!
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Debian Sarge for our linux server and winxp prof on my personal computer
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Gentoo :)
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Another Gentoo user here
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Debian stable, with aMule 2.1.1 from here:
deb http://amule-debian.dyndns.org/ debian/ # Para aMule 2.1.1 GTK2
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archlinux.
fast, transparent, easy to use :)
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When I was at Uni (7-10 years ago) I used Slackware for the sole purpose of running a Quakeworld server.
About 2 weeks ago I installed Caos - www.caoslinux.org (http://www.caoslinux.org) - not a very popular distro, but its quite up to date and stable and has everything I need and has one big bonus - one of my best friends uses it at home and work (and does packaging and bug fixing for the distro), so I get 1st class support from him.
Cheers, Nick
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Fedora 6 (Simple to use, and it just simply works for me) and Solaris 10 (the SUN one, still waiting for my OpenSolaris DVDs) because it simply rules ;)
Regards.
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Debian Lenny
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for 2 Years Kanotix (Debian) then pure Debian and now Mandriva 2007.1 One for testing purposes
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since long time ago suse, now SuSE 10.2... Because.... was, German Technology ... jejejeje :D
Keep in mind Suse was a fork of Slack (pro slack user here, active dev). For home usage I use slack, suse for linux and for unix solaris and bsd.
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SuSE, due my job and...
... my sloth ;D
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My distro? Debian of course! Now running Lenny. What's dependency hell? ;)
Attila
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Gentoo 2007.0 and kernel 2.6.19.1-rt15-3D-fb-alsaext from the pro-audio overlay for me.
Dependency hell is what append when you are using multiple repositories (the equivalent of gentoo's overlays) and are trying to install a package that depend on a particular version of a library when another version is needed by some other installed programs. It's very frequent with the rpm based distributions and less frequent with the apt based distributions (Debian). It doesn't append with gentoo because, as all the programs are compiled, their dependencies are all in your system, not precompiled in some external repository.
With portage, you have 2 keywords, arch and ~arch (x86 and ~x86 as example). It is like debian stable and testing. And you can mix them, that is define the system as arch (stable) and use ~arch only for your favorite program like amule. So, you will get the best of both world, a stable system and the last versions of your favorite apps.
Another thing with portage is that it is very easy to do a major system upgrade (like upgrading from suse 10.0 to 10.3), just 3 commands in most cases. My current system is 2 years old and is almost always up-to-date.
The minus is the huge installation time because of the compilation, but the system is fully usable during that time. You can even stop and restart the update as you want to.
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ubuntu gutsy and debian stable ;)
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I put my distro Ubuntu 7.10 in my profile so everybody can see and knows.....helps avoid asking me the question...
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I use Linux since 1995, first SuSE 5.0 , then Slackware, Sorcerer, Debian, Gentoo, Ubuntu, Kubuntu and I stay with Gentoo.
Gentoo is great, all Options are there. Works from 250 MHz PC to High End. From Server to Multimedia PC.
It is always up to Date. I love him.
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I also use It for some time
I began with Slack (curiosity), then RedHad (this was of bad habit in combination with usenet c.o.l ^·_·^ ), then Debian, and for few time SuSE (I Acquired the 6.1 and I was fed up with it, I gave it) and Gentoo (I'm in love)
Today Kanotix and Gentoo
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For me: I testet some Distro's...
But being a bit a noob...for me it's Ubuntu! (now 8.04...)... :)
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archlinux
IMO its the best.
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I used for my first year as linux-user Ubuntu, from feisty to hardy. Then I tried Vector Linux, Zenwalk, Slackware, Gentoo, Suse, Debian, Linux Mint, Fluxbuntu and all *buntu with different DE, then I found the light.
ARCH LINUX PROUD USER, powerful as gentoo or slack, simple as ... nothing... Nothing is better than Arch, once you try it, you can't go back.
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I use only slackware :) and everything works fine.. Some time ago i tried Mandrake Mandriva Debian, with all those user friendly tools, doing something somewhere completely out of my control and thing started to explode and had riots against me.. No tnx, back to slackware :)
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32 bit: Slackware
64 bit: Slamd64 (a 64 bit Slackware version)
Why? I use Linux since the "ancient times"... Since the times of HUNDRED of loppy disks jnstead of the modern CD/DVD (ah... it was so awful when installing from the 20th floppy disk some read-error occured...) and at that time there were only few distro. One was Slackware!
And the first distro... well, you'll never forget the first distro!
And I love the "slackware" style:
- minimalistic, so the user MUST understand what he/she is doing, the user must use the brain! No strange automatism Windows-style;
- packages are, at most, as provided by programmer, no strange (and unwanted) patches;
- it's really simple to create a package.
Bye,
Mr Hyde
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Vista Home Premium. :P
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Vista Home Premium. :P
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Vista Home Premium. :P
!!!!!
hehehe! ;D multiplaform world!
If some day at future, you will join us at Tux world, you will love Compiz 3D tubes and eye candies. ;D
Happy Vista aMuling! ;)
Really happy to see you here! ;)
Kubuntu Hardy AMD64 for me.
Easy! What more to say? :D
I prefer the KDE look (windows like), than Gnome( OSX like).
As soon as I complete my transfer from Windows to Linux (almost done), I'll install AfterStep or a similar package.
It remembers me the good old days of NextStep, OS/2 and Win 3.11. ;D
OK! Just a matter of personal taste. :D
About the different functionality of different desktops, I believe that someone can handle them, dealing with their control panels and setting files (conf, ini, etc.).
Cheers!!! :)
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I changed from gentoo x86 32 bits to gentoo amd 64 bits.
And still fvwm-crystal. Fvwm is the only wm that let me confiure the mouse the way I like it. It is faster than every other wm, and with fvwm-crystal, you get a real fvwm based desktop.
Last but not least, the modular configuration of fvwm-crystal (even if it is not perfect, too much env variables) make it relatively easy to learn to configure fvwm and how to customize crystal. And like with fvwm, you can do whatever you want with it.
Minus of fvwm-crystal: no 3D effect. No GUI to make custom settings, you have to rtfm for that.
Plus of fvwm-crystal: no 3D effect make it very fast even with heavily loaded system. Stable, normal preferences settings can be changed on the fly directly from the menu, custom configuration capabilities not limited by a GUI but only by the imagination.
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At the moment i'm using Linux Mint 6... (ubuntu based)
...i think i finally have done the change from window$ to Linux...
...and it's so stable...just great!