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 Dec 14 2004, 06:03 AM
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CampusJunk  Group: Members Posts: 36 Joined: 9-November 04 Member No.: 2,200  |
Hey, I played around w/ linux about 5 yrs ago but havent done much w/ it since and was just wondering what everyone's opinion was about the different distros. Im looking to get back into it and was wondering what everyone liked?
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Dec 14 2004, 02:10 PM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 190 Joined: 3-November 04 From: Croatia Member No.: 2,103 |
QUOTE(campusjunk @ Dec 14 2004, 07:03 AM) Hey, I played around w/ linux about 5 yrs ago but havent done much w/ it since and was just wondering what everyone's opinion was about the different distros. Im looking to get back into it and was wondering what everyone liked?  I think that Fedora Core 2 is best free distribution now. It's a legacy of Red Hat. Try it. |
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Dec 14 2004, 03:52 PM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 158 Joined: 5-December 04 From: Canada Member No.: 2,567 |
FreeBSD and Gentoo are pretty good.
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Dec 14 2004, 11:03 PM
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POWERED BY LINUX! Group: Members Posts: 607 Joined: 11-July 04 From: Toronto, Canada Member No.: 78 |
Please note: FreeBSD, OpenBSD ARE NOT LINUX!!
I like SuSE, Knoppix and Yoper xboxrulz |
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Dec 14 2004, 11:31 PM
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Member [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 65 Joined: 9-December 04 From: 65201, USA Member No.: 2,634 |
I prefer SuSE for ease of use. YaST is very powerful. If you don't mind a command line installation give Gentoo a try. It is extremely efficient.
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Feb 11 2005, 05:12 PM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 153 Joined: 9-August 04 From: Serbia Member No.: 751 |
SUSE, Mandreke, Fedora for beginners
Gentoo, Debian, Slackware for advanced users |
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Feb 20 2005, 06:12 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 144 Joined: 19-February 05 From: Nakorn Chaisri, Thailand Member No.: 3,864 |
QUOTE(popac @ Feb 12 2005, 12:12 AM) SUSE, Mandreke, Fedora for beginners Gentoo, Debian, Slackware for advanced users Did you say Fedora is for beginners ?????? I beg to differ here.. Even though Fedora rose out of a Redhat backed community-based project - it is not at all meant for the beginners.. Mandrake, Slackware, Ubuntu and even Gentoo are the ones which infact new users should start with.. Fedora has carved a separate niche for itself among the linux distros by its own right. In fact, the coding and features are so good that it's only comparable to the Redhat Enterprise Server series of Linux..no less.. It's as good at handling servers as the RHEL's are, if not more... I've been using it alongwith RHEL for quite a while on my company servers and I'm thoroughly impressed at its performance, even though I'm using FC2 (The kernel of FC2 is thoroughly optimized for networked rdbms systems). Eagerly waiting to get my hands on a copy of Fedora Core 3. I read through all these discussions on the best linux distro.. If you want to view the most comprehensive list of linux distro's in the market and read loads of reviews on them - goto: DistroWatch.Org - that's the site to be in for all linux users out there... Also check out my other post on Ubuntu Linux - they're giving away absolutely free copies of their distro on CDs including free shipping... Cheers 
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Mar 12 2005, 12:51 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 142 Joined: 24-December 04 From: Queensland, Australia Member No.: 2,902 |
I have one thing to say... Debian pwns all of 'em.
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Mar 12 2005, 12:54 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 142 Joined: 24-December 04 From: Queensland, Australia Member No.: 2,902 |
Can't find an edit button... must be blind...
Seriously though, I've heard both Suse and Gentoo are good, I'd love to give them a try... *wants more computers* *wait a minute, I see a mandrake installation... die* |
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Mar 12 2005, 05:19 PM
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POWERED BY LINUX! Group: Members Posts: 607 Joined: 11-July 04 From: Toronto, Canada Member |