Linux distributions

[wysota]

I heard Windows has got good hardware drivers

[marcel]

Wysota, you are ruining my Linux distributions poll!

[wysota]

Why so? I didn't add a "Windows" option, did I? And I even voted in your poll!

[marcel]

I was joking :|.

Why so? I didn't add a "Windows" option, did I?

If you add it, probably will get the most votes.

[wysota]

Cheer up, it's not that bad.

[Brandybuck]

I heard Windows has got good hardware drivers

When I repartitioned my Thinkpad, I discovered that I didn't have any of the necessary Windows drivers. They were all on the "recovery" CD, when when you recover it will undo your partitions. So I had to hunt down and find wifi/video/touchpad drivers on my own. Definitely not user friendly.

[wysota]

Maybe Windows detected BSD partitions and gave you something extra for them being there? I lost my partition table a few times thanks to format.exe present on Windows installation CD that formated the first partition starting from block 0 instead of 1...

[Brandybuck]

It's just that the recovery CD reformats the entire harddrive, regardless of partitioning.

[ucntcme]

I use Gentoo at home (and Mac), and RHEL at work. Without regard to which is "best", if you are going to poll and claim "veteran" distributions, you can't put any Ubuntu up without listing Red Hat. Not disparaging any of the *buntus, of course.

[GreyGeek]

You voted for other . Did I miss any big/popular distro?
So what is the name of the distro?

Just a FEW!. The distro I use is PCLinuxOS 2008 MiniMe.

Visiting distrowatch.com would give you a list of those distros that folks query the most. You missed Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS, Mint and Sabayon.

Rank Distro           Pagehits
1  	PCLinuxOS      2400
2 	Ubuntu 	         2329
3 	openSUSE       1461
4 	Fedora 	         1291
5 	Mint                 1175
6 	Sabayon          1018

Rank Distro           Pagehits
1  	PCLinuxOS      2400
2 	Ubuntu 	         2329
3 	openSUSE       1461
4 	Fedora 	         1291
5 	Mint                 1175
6 	Sabayon          1018

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[przemoc]

Servers (including my home one): Slackware 12 - because it works^TM
Desktop & laptop: Ubuntu 7.10 - because it works mostly out of the box

[yogeshm02]

My first was Mandrake (2002) then SuSE 9.0 and since then I'm using SuSE (now openSUSE).

[lack]

first.. does it really matter?

i used zenwalk once - slackware derivative i suppose, lightning fast!
and now for development, openSUSE 10.3. why? coz it came shipped with all the tools (and Qt) in one dvd, i don't have to search repos anymore.

about drivers, IMO it's always an adventure with linux

[ComaWhite]

Is Slackware still preferring 2.4 over 2.6?
And Lilo over Grub ;P

[jay]

Dear All,

We are running our Server application in Slackware. This server application doesn't have GUI. Its running fine now. Do you feel any other distribution supports better by considering more user connection. please give your views.

Thanks in advance.

[MTK358]

Arch Linux, because it's fast, customizable, and doesn't hide anything.

I don't use Windows any more

[shmerl]

Linux is GNU and GNU = GNU is Not Unix

It doesn't change the fact that Linux inherits practically all of its roots from Unix, since it was modeled after Minix And Linux is not simply GNU. It was born out of cooperation between GNU and Linus, but since then it incorporated a whole bunch of different sub-projects such as Gnome, KDE, X.org etc. So it's far from just GNU anymore.

I like Debian, because of their spirit and the fact that they aren't controlled by any corporation. Out of open Unixes I like OpenSolaris (which was recently frozen by Oracle, but reborn by community as Illumos/OpenIndiana).

[MTK358]

Also, Linux is not GNU. GNU's kernel is called the HURD and it's still unfinished. But since Linux, like GNU, are buth Unixes, they dropped in Linux instead of the HURD and called it GNU/Linux.

Some Linux distros have a HURD edition, such as Debian GNU/Hurd and ArchHurd.

[GuL]

Arch Linux and Chakra

[genjix]

When I first got into Linux, I was switching between tons of different distros all the time like Slackware, Gentoo, TinyLinux and others. Now I just run Kubuntu.

I don't want to waste time building packages, admin'ing my computer (boring!) and fiddling with configs all the time. I just want to write code and have it all work. No hassle. And you don't gain much anyway by doing all that stuff.

Says a guy who runs a tiling window manager (Awesome)