What Linux Distro do YOU use?

What Linux Distro do YOU use?

Simple question: What Linux distro do you use

What I use :

• Edubuntu (thin client Server installation) 6.06 LTS & 7.04
• openSuse 10.2
• Damn Small Linux (but will be trying TinyMe, based on PCLinuxOS, when it comes in )

What I have used :

• Red Hat 8 & 9.0
• Gentoo
• Ubuntu 4.1 & 5.04
• CentOS (Red Hat Enterprise Linux clone) 4.3
• openSuse 10.2
• Damn Small Linux (ver???)
• (soon) TinyMe (tba)

Originally posted by Tamil:

Ubuntu

Which version? Gibbon (7.10)? Feisty (7.04)? Dapper (6.06 LTS)?

I use OpenSUSE and Mandriva regularly. I also have live CDs of DSL, Nimblex, Sabayon, FaunOS, and several others. (Nimblex is something like TinyMe but it uses KDE and is based on Slax instead of PCLOS.)

I have Suse 10 as a dual boot on one of my desktops and am going to try Ubuntu 7.10 soon (i will get round to it!). I also use Scientific Linux at work.

Dava

Wubi

Gentoo & FreeBSD.

Have used various others - Debian ain't that bad, but Gentoo is the one I like the most so far.

Ubuntu 7.10 Gusty Gibbon! Great OS and for anyone who hasn't gave it a go! Trust me it's brilliant!

Also for anyone interested take a look at my new Ubuntu Group Please! http://my.opera.com/Ubuntu-Users/

Versions are obsolete. I use Gentoo.

Originally posted by Tapio Raevaara:

Versions are obsolete. I use Gentoo.

I have heard (please correct me if I'm wrong) that PCLinuxOS is also a "rolling distro" where versions does not matter and releases are the base plus all of the patches and updates to that point in time.

Many distros have said that they would be going to rolling releases, I think mostly because KDE couldn't keep their original schedule. KDE 4 was originally supposed to have been available in late September, many distros planned October releases so they could include it - but KDE wasn't ready.

I start with Mandrake 9.0 /dual boot with Win98/, then only Mandrake. After that Slackware 10.2 on PII and Ubuntu 7.04 at Acer Aspire 5310. /Once tried Knoppix at office, after that admin forbid, but I don`t care for it/.
Intend to use Slackware 12 and newest Kubuntu soon.../prefer KDE.../. Have no any MS product, and no need it anymore...Happy

Debian Etch / Fluxbox .. on a Dell Latitude C600 laptop

love it ..

I've been using OpenSuse 10.3 (my first linux) for couple weeks now and I actually use it more than xp nowadays

Well I got TinyMe CD (and 2nd module of 64MB Ram so I'm maxed out at 128! woo hoo!) and fiddled with it last night. Very promising and if it looks this good on a Pentium MMX @ 233MHz I look forward to getting time to try it out on my P3s or even P4s!

Damn Small
Aero
Debian Etch
Knoppix

Over the years I've used:

RedHat
Debian
SuSE

Then I settled in on Slackware for nearly a decade and loved it.

and now....(K)Ubuntu. It's freakin' amazing.

Source Mage

Even more versionless than Gentoo (no profiles).

And you'd be that "lynx" on the front page, huh?

In the past:
- Coherent (ok, not a proper Linux and noone remembers it anyway )
- Slackware, since whatever version came with Kernel 1.09.
- SuSE (6.0).
- Vector Linux.

At the moment by home machine has:
- WinXP.
- Puppy Linux 3.01.
- Slackware 12.0.
- PC-BSD, as soon as I figure out how to multiboot it.
- a couple of sandbox partitions.

Nowadays I am mostly running Puppy Linux. It is fast, solid, hassle-free and has all the apps I need, plus it is easy to mantain and great fun to mess with. Slackware (my other favorite system) has all the bells and whistles, but sometimes I just can't be bothered...

I use Open SUSE 10.2 on an IBM Thinkpad R51. I tried Ubuntu and Kubuntu, I liked some things about them, but i have decided that I perfer rpm packages over deb packages. also K/Ubuntu didn't support my hardwre very easily, where as SUSE compiled it right from the get go.

I use Sidux.

Bevore I also used Suse, Mandriva, Debian and (K)Ubuntu.

OpenSUSE 10.2

Come on folks! Am I the only one that uses Fedora?

The closest I've come to using Fedora is using CentOS which is RHEL (that and downloading and burning but never using Fedora Core 1 CDs)

I used Fedora Core 3 for a little while. Very little, the hardware detection was telling me my old printer had been removed and a new one installed every time I rebooted, so I went on to another distro. Hopefully that's been fixed by now ...

I use Ubuntu and Comfusion is a LiveDVD with Ubuntu + Beryl+ Compiz

Slackware 12.0 is my main flavor. Currently dual-booting with Fedora 8. I also have used and love Debian/GNU (testing).

fortunetely, I use Debian Etch + KDE 3.5 + Katapult,...........

well, I have Vista 'cause, I paid it, when I bought my Lap, fucking MS

Some friends and I have been debating ... retailer Wal-mart was selling a PC with Linux pre-installed for $200 (US), currently they're sold out. Now, this isn't exactly a top-of-the-line PC, in fact my current 5-year-old system has similar specs - a 1.5 GHz processor (the Wal-mart computer uses a Via G7 CPU), 512 MB RAM, an 80 GB HD (okay, my system only came with a 40 GB HD), a combo drive (DVD-ROM and CD-R/W, mine had two separate drives) ... you know, pretty standard for several years ago, certainly not noteworthy today.

This isn't the first Linux system Wal-mart has sold. Several years ago they had some Mandrake systems, and more recently Linspire, the current models feature gOS. And okay, the previous systems were priced a little higher. But the previous systems were never big sellers, and this time Wal-mart sold out within just a few weeks (they will be getting more). So ... is it the price, are people just more accepting of Linux, or is it because these computers don't have Vista on them (and couldn't anyway, not with only 512 MB RAM)? I don't think we can really say, but I had to throw it out there ...

(If you're interested, no, that doesn't include a monitor, though it does include stereo speakers.)

PCLinuxOS

Ubuntu 7.10:yes:

Linuxmint 4.0 Daryna. It's ubuntu based but fixed up. I have tried most others but this has what I want

I use Fedora 8 for AMD 64 with KDE.

I use debian etch on a dell laptop, fedora 7 on my file server and possibly will update that to 8.

PCLinuxOS.... I havn't booted anything else in months.
I still have Suse 10.0 on another partitiion.

At the moment I'm using Ubuntu. Now that I've got it doing what I want it to do it's started to grow on me.

Right now I'm on Mandriva 2008.0 with KDE 3.5.7 (my favorite environment). I also learn Elive with E17.

PCLOS. No Windows - deleted the partition a few years ago. Used a few other distros, such as : Sidux, Mandriva, Ubuntu & Kubuntu & Mint. PCLOS remains my favorite and I've been using it for over three years now.

opensuse 10.3

I use Linux Mint Daryna.


Have used:
Linux Mint Cassandra,Celena

Fedora Core 4,5,6,7

Ubuntu 5.10 thru 7.10

Debian 3,4

Kubuntu

Xubuntu

Dynebolic

Vector Linux

Suse,OpenSuse 9thru latest version

DSL

Knoppix 3 thru 5

Swecha Linux

I now have to add that I am using Fluxbuntu on an old Dell Latitude CP (PI w/MMX @233Mhz & 128MB Ram) and now that I have internet connection (dial-up external modem) and I got the resolution up to 1024x768 (had to drop the Screen's DefaultDepth to 16 in /etc/X11/xorg.conf), I will probably stick with this one for a while.

At least until next month when I get to go to the computer club meeting and use their DSL connection

Currently I use:
Ubuntu 7.10
Fedora 8 (had some trouble with it at first but now it's running smoother)
Mandriva 2008 very seldom

Have used:
SuSE 10.x
Xandros
Ubuntu (since 6.06)

Tried to install Solaris (not Linux, but still an OS), Fedora Core 6 and Fedora 7
Might try Debian, Slackware, DreamLinux, Gentoo and/or possibly Foresight Linux

Originally posted by Sindar:

Currently I use:
Ubuntu 7.10
Fedora 8 (had some trouble with it at first but now it's running smoother)
Mandriva 2008 very seldom

Have used:
SuSE 10.x
Xandros
Ubuntu (since 6.06)

Tried to install Solaris (not Linux, but still an OS), Fedora Core 6 and Fedora 7
Might try Debian, Slackware, DreamLinux, Gentoo and/or possibly Foresight Linux

Have you thought about openSolaris (Project Indiana)? It's due out soon I believe and it should be interesting to follow since Ian Murdock (the second half of DebIAN) is in charge of the project.

I use Kubuntu (currently 7.10 Gutsy Gibbon).

I'd like to switch to Arch Linux and I've already tried it, but I simply do not have enough time to set and tune everything...

You don't have to do tune that much to get your system up and running reall If you have any questions you can just send me message.

I currently use Arch Linux with kdemod and Ubuntu 7.10.

Originally posted by dragonbite:

Have you thought about openSolaris (Project Indiana)? It's due out soon I believe and it should be interesting to follow since Ian Murdock (the second half of DebIAN) is in charge of the project.

Well i had seen it, but i never really thought about trying it (also taking into consideration i never got Solaris to work properly) . Now that you mention it (and that i have some free time), i might as well try it out.

PCLOS is my current favorite (and has been for months now..)

Also used (K)Ubuntu 6-7+, Linspire, Fedora 4-6, for extended periods of time, and many, many others for only moments in time

..getting ready to try and revive a couple of old retired win98 machines with PCFluxboxOS or TinyMe (not shure why, but PCLOS live CD continuously reboots just after the splash screen on these dinosours [pIII] -- works great on older p4)

You do get the splash screen though, huh? Might be apci or apic. Due to having had problems with it before (on even more recent machines) I'd try adding "noapic" to the boot line first.

Currently using: Debian 4

I've used:
Redhat 8
Ubuntu/Kubuntu 6.10, 7.04, 7.10
Fedora 7
OpenSuse 10.3
Debian 4

My only issue is no wireless support for my atheros ar5005g wifi card. The funny thing is that it worked in Kubuntu 6.10 and 7.04 but no longer works
("Unable to attach Hardware" error). Ndiswrapper didn't seem to resolve my problem but still like linux anyway.