Best Linux Distro


Which is your favourite.  

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  1. 1. Which is your favourite.

    • Debian GNU/Linux
      4
    • Gentoo
      20
    • Lycoris Desktop/LX
      0
    • Mandrake
      16
    • Red Hat
      17
    • Slackware
      8
    • SmoothWall
      0
    • SuSe
      11
    • Turbo Linux
      0
    • Other (please state)
      4


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personally, I loathe red hat and mandrake. They both used to be very nice distros, but now you can't even do anything in them like you would a normal distro, well, u can, but it can be very hard). I chose gentoo, because it is VERY NICE, I just can't get X configured properly.

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I've just recently installed Red Hat and it didn't like the fact that I have onboard video (I don't use) and a Radeon 9100 128 DDR PCI card. I can't get XFree to work with the onboard video or the Radeon card so I say screw Red Hat until they can get drivers that actually work right. It should at least work with my Intel onboard video for crying out loud! The only version that will actually work right for me is my live Knoppix CD which I have used twice to restore my system. I love that disc!

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As Im a Linux Red Hat soon to be ive got a question, if everything on other Distro's compatable. IE if you have some stuff on Red Hat will it convert over to mandrex ok or are the two like windows and mac?

Dan

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  • 4 months later...

Iam running Mandrake 9.2 using the Power Pack and I am very pleased, a huge range of packages fromthe Pack and all my hardware was detected and correctly configured by the install.

I also have Redhat 9 on another PC and Fedora on a laptop and both those are also very good .

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i've played around with a few of the major distros...

slackware 9.1

mandrake (several versions)

fedora

debian 3.0r2

i really like slackware, because it runs on my 50 mhz laptop with 8 mb of ram :woot:. mandrake and fedora are very easy...but that's not really what i want.

debian really intrigues me, especially the apt-get system. only problem with it is that i haven't been able to get X working properly with my video card. (can't say i've really tried very hard, but i'm still playing with it)

i did some installs with gentoo (heard many good things about it) and suse...haven't played with either yet.

anyway, my point is that there is only one way to determine what is the best distro:

try them until you find one you like.

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