What's your favorite flavor?

[jaroca100]

I use Gentoo both for my server and my computer. I like it cause it is optimized for both my systems.

 

[pcthuglife]

I run Ubuntu on my main rig, but I just installed SimplyMepis on my laptop and I love it! It detected everything perfectly and I have a new found respect for KDE. I still prefer a RHEL clone for my servers though.

 

[xtknight]

Sure you can have multiple Linuxes. I installed Ubuntu Dapper and it automatically detected and added my SUSE 10.1 installation to the boot list, along with Windows. Debian Sarge did the same thing.

 

[IamDavid]

I figured Debian would've been used more, I hear about it all the time hear.. Must be from the same people over and oer again.

 

[networkman]

I am still primarily a Windows user, but my only successful Linux installs have been with using Ubuntu.

 

[oog]

i have both ubuntu and gentoo installed. both have worked well for me, though i'm considering replacing the gentoo with ubuntu.

 

[OSX]

I run debian etch with pride. I would install Xgl, but my project box has a 3dfx video card.

 

[daniel49]

have tried most of the popular ones PClinux OS is much more polished then the rest.
One could step directly from windows to it without batting an eyelash.

 

[Basie]

Ark and Underground have been two of my favorites lately. Ubuntu is still the best for updating and adding packages.

 

[daniel49]

Originally posted by: Basie
Ark and Underground have been two of my favorites lately. Ubuntu is still the best for updating and adding packages.

how is ark progressing? the last time I tried it it seemed kinda half done.

 

[Nothinman]

perhaps a single /boot with the different kernels, and a shared /home and /etc (that might not work)

Shared /etc would be a PITA at best and would most likely cause a ton of problems. My whole /etc is under 50M and most of it is gconf (damn XML registry crap), there's really no point in sharing /etc.

Sharing /boot might be doable, but if you used distributions that happen to ship kernels with the same name (entirely possible with Ubuntu and Debian) you could easily run into problems. And if you only install the kernel in one of the distributions you'll run into dependency problems in the others.

I use Gentoo both for my server and my computer. I like it cause it is optimized for both my systems.

Gentoo is no more optimized than any other distribution. The whole 'compiled for my specific system' crap is just that, crap. http://www.funroll-loops.org/

 

[engineereeyore]

SUSE 10.0 Enterprise Edition. Very nice. Firewall needs help though, but that's easily replaced.

 

[Maximilian]

Purple flavour

 

[kamper]

Originally posted by: Nothinman
http://www.funroll-loops.org/

is timing out for me. Is it some sort of subtle joke? 'Cause that would be pretty funny

 

[Nothinman]

It doesn't seem to be working here right now either...

 

[jcmuse]

GOOGLE CACHE 4SHONO:http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:ry_...&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=1&client=opera

 

[Seeruk]

Box 1, DualBoot XP/Vista
Box 2, Quintuple Booting MCE/Gentoo/Ubuntu/SUSE/Austrumi

 

[EatSpam]

Fedora or CentOS. I don't run Linux on the desktop.

 

[daniel49]

Originally posted by: Basie
Ark and Underground have been two of my favorites lately. Ubuntu is still the best for updating and adding packages.

You got my curiosity up on the underground distro so I installed it on a pentium with 250 mb ram
300 mhz cpu OC'ed to 450.
Which is actually below specs for what they require, but I must say I never saw a distro ,short of perhaps dsl or puppy, boot uyp as fast as underground did.

Haven't done to much with it yet besides set up internet and music players, but looks like a cool distro.
Based off of Arch linux

 

[IamDavid]

Gentoo was min 2nd so I installed it on a extra PC... WOW, I hated it. I hope it was just me but it took ~1.5 hours to install. On a p4 2.26... Ouch... I will play with it later I guess but first impressions usually make or break it for me..

 

[jagilbertvt]

I've used Slackware and Redhat in the past. Currently I use Fedora/CentOS, though I use em on servers rather than on desktops. I've used Debian on occasion, but never really cared for it very much. The main problem with a lot of distros is that they tend to lack any sort of standardization for file locations, which can make it a bit annoying when you're use to one flavor and switch to another.

 

[Nothinman]

The main problem with a lot of distros is that they tend to lack any sort of standardization for file locations, which can make it a bit annoying when you're use to one flavor and switch to another.

There's some minor naming convention differences, but nothing major. If you know how to use rpm, dpkg and/or find you should be able to figure out where anything you need is located.

 

[drag]

File positions may change slightly, but names are usually very consistant.

if you know what your looking for and your machine has run updatedb recently you can usually use the 'locate' command to find anything your looking for very quickly.

 

[jagilbertvt]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

The main problem with a lot of distros is that they tend to lack any sort of standardization for file locations, which can make it a bit annoying when you're use to one flavor and switch to another.

There's some minor naming convention differences, but nothing major. If you know how to use rpm, dpkg and/or find you should be able to figure out where anything you need is located.

Oh I know, as I said, it's an annoyance. My point was just that you can't depend on anything being where you expect it from one distro to the next. Granted, it's usually fairly easy to find, but you shouldn't have to try to find it, it *should* be consistent, imho.

I'm no linux noob (I've used it since 1995).

 

[IamDavid]

Now that Ubuntu 6 was released more people should switch over...