Which Linux Distro?


Which Linux Distro do you run?  

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  1. 1. Which Linux Distro do you run?

    • 1. Debian (including Knoppix) [apt-get]
      4
    • 2. Slackware [.TGZ]
      4
    • 3. Source-based (i.e. Gentoo) [screw packages!]
      13
    • 4. I don't currently run Linux
      3
    • 5. Even though it's off topic, I want to vote for Windows.
      5
    • 6. Any other distro that uses a different package type.
      1
    • 7a. Red Hat [RPM]
      7
    • 7b. Mandrake [RPM]
      9
    • 7c. SuSE [RPM]
      4
    • 7d. Other RPM-based
      0


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You'll need to creatively vote with a lot of Distros because there are too many to list.

You will find that many distros are related to one of the ones mentioned (i.e. there are quite a few Debian-based releases).

Feel free to vote for source-based even if you use a distro with package management but you install your applications from source anyway.

To make the package management comparisons fair you should subtotal all of the RPM-based distros but I thought you'd want to see them listed separately.

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i voted RPM, basicly because i feel if your gonna do it from source code, you sould actully know how to program so you can change the code if you want, and because i know

crap about programing, i'll leave it to the pros who know what they are doing.

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They have a poll section for a reason y'know. And the poll section is full of polls just like this.

Yes, but this was pretty Linux specific and more Linux users will see it here.

Poll Station is listed under General Discussion so you will only have a whack of Windows users voting or commenting unnecessarily.

Personally I'd like to get a feel of what people like not only by the poll but by what they comment as well.

Although I am expecting tons of responses that I left out their favourite Linux distro.

Remember kidz, I had 10 entries only! Feel free to post your choice here.

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Gentoo uses packages. Its very similar to the bsd ports system.

There are .ebuild scripts which download, configure, install, and then tell portage all that it did. Simplistic description but that's essentially what it does.

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Gentoo uses packages. Its very similar to the bsd ports system.

There are .ebuild scripts which download, configure, install, and then tell portage all that it did. Simplistic description but that's essentially what it does.

Yup. It's not all source :p . Some packages have binary ebuilds.

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SuSE is my favourite for every day use, Slackware is my favourite for "extra curricular" use, and I'm quite looking forward to installing Gentoo 1.4 Final on Tuesday.

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Actually the gentoo 1.4 final comes with a pre-built system with office, mozilla, gnome, kde, everything else optimized for athlon-xp, pentium4, etc.

Of course there's always a stage 1 install totalling 10 MB.

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Actually the gentoo 1.4 final comes with a pre-built system with office, mozilla, gnome, kde, everything else optimized for athlon-xp, pentium4, etc.

Of course there's always a stage 1 install totalling 10 MB.

Stage 1 is my favourite, but the machine I'm installing it on isn't exactly a speed demon, so it looks like I could be at it for the next couple of weeks.

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LFS in virtual PC as something to play with. If you're going to roll your own ala gentoo (or to a lesser extent slackware) you might as well go all the way. I'm wiping one of the partitions on my powerbook to install gentoo ppc 1.4. I've heard they finally have hardware accelerated X11 working on the radeon cards.

No real reason (other than ideology) to use Linux over OS X for me, but I spent the better part of 10 years using it so it feels wrong to completly remove it from all of my systems.

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Seeing how PPC is basically a RISC architecture it ought to compile a lot faster. It would be cool to see how well altivec is supported by gcc.

Here's a hint, -03 slows compile time and can actually hurt application speed (but good for really good for number crunching) . -02 is a safe bet for most apps and has less bugs. Even if there is a speed difference it will be like 1%. Not much purpose. Also, DO NOT COMPILE Openoffice. Use the binaries. Even Guru's don't see the point because its too sensitive to flags and takes forever.

You'll probably have a working fluxbox within a few hours even from stage 1. KDE takes forever, but gnome takes less time, around a few hours. With preemtible-kernel in the gentoo-source-2.4 kernel you can run it in the background and won't even notice the slightest slowdown at all.

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