Linux, which is better?


What Linux do you think is best?  

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  1. 1. What Linux do you think is best?

    • Mandrake
      16
    • SuSE
      13
    • RedHat
      17
    • Other
      26


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Is there really any point to threads like this? Where are all the other distributions to choose from?

Yes there is a point to this! I'm looking to go into Linux, so I'm just asking other people's opinion on which one they like!!!

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Yes there is a point to this! I'm looking to go into Linux, so I'm just asking other people's opinion on which one they like!!!

But this has been asked countless times... :sleep:

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SuSE, Mandrake, Redhat, all good choices. Personally out of those I'd go with SuSE (or maybe the new fedora test), but thats really just personal preference. Gentoo & Slackware are the distros I'm currently using.

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debian. APT has Super Cow Powers.

[~]
[mike@arhra]$ apt-get moo
         (__)
         (oo)
   /------\/
  / |    ||
 *  /\---/\
    ~~   ~~
...."Have you mooed today?"...

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For a total newbie, I say go with SuSe, Red Hat, or Mandrake if you want something easy to install, and point-and-click type work. If you want to LEARN about using *nix, then go get Gentoo, Debian, Slackware, or a BSD flavour, and you will be fine. If you decided to go BSD based, I suggest Open BSD if you have a security fetish, but Net BSD is also nice.

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If Mandrake came with a nice crontab that had automatic pr0n downloading, then it would be complete :D

But Mandrake is good for starters. After Mandrake, sink your teeth into Debian, then finally, the mother of pains, Gentoo.

But on the Mandrake site, check out the hardware list and make sure all your stuff is supported.

If you have a wireless LAN card, theres a 80% chance it wont work.

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For those who don't know, Libranet is based on Debian. It has many improvements, such as the Libranet Adminmenu, and of course updated packages etc etc.

If you wanna check it out (which I highly recommend) go here

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well in my opinion it all depends what you are interested in doing as to which distro you should stick with. I personally use Fedora 0.95 right now on my desktop. On my server I run debian.

edit: there is now apt-get for rpms which makes fedora look much more attractive then it would otherwise look.

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