Best Distro?

Silent Echoes

Nov 17 2006, 11:20 AM

So, what does everyone reckon the best distro is? I reckon Mandriva, because it's easy and English. But SUSE has more stuff!! What do you think everyone?

ignite

Nov 17 2006, 11:32 AM

QUOTE(Silent Echoes @ Nov 17 2006, 01:20 PM)

So, what does everyone reckon the best distro is? I reckon Mandriva, because it's easy and English. But SUSE has more stuff!! What do you think everyone?

CentOS on servers, Fedora - desktop.
In general questions isn't correct. There isn't silver bullet in OS field, every distro have it's own niche.

yordan

Nov 17 2006, 11:39 AM

QUOTE

I reckon Mandriva, because it's easy and English.

I choose my preferred languate when installing Mandriva. Isn't it the case with other distros ?

Quatrux

Nov 17 2006, 02:28 PM

I personally think that the best dsitros are Arch Linux and Gentoo and Kubuntu/Ubuntu for people who doesn't know anything about Linux.

Jimmy89

Nov 17 2006, 11:26 PM

I have to say Ubuntu, just for the ease of use! Simple to use, easy to install - what mroe could you want from and OS, cept maybe some more features!

xboxrulz

Nov 18 2006, 12:31 AM

I chose SuSE Linux because of its ease of use and powerful tools for professionals, zipped in one package.

Furthermore, I pinned the post since there are a couple of related posts and we don't want the exact same question asked later.

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sonoftheclayr

Nov 29 2006, 08:31 AM

I have to go Ubuntu and Kubuntu as they are the only ones I have used (I know they are pretty much the same, the only difference being Desktop Environment). I would like to try Fedora but the download is so darn big!

Melanova

Dec 1 2006, 01:23 AM

SuSE. Im gonna upgrade to 10.2 when its out. I like how WiFi works and my videocard right of the box. My only complaint is my soudcard. I had to go to edit. (Not actually change anything, but just open up the edit window).

If only SuSE had the ability to upgrad the distro like Ubuntu did..

theking648

Dec 1 2006, 01:34 AM

I use linux and windows, I also like linux better but I still need windows for a few reasons
alot of my favorite programs only run on windows such as photoshop and flash 8 professional. I use suse linux 10.1 and that is one of the reasons I like linux because its FREE!

, I also like the security of linux.
unfortunatly I am still in a linux class and I only know 20% of linux commands.

I give Linux 5 out of 10
I give windows 7 out of 10

Hercco

Dec 1 2006, 08:11 AM

I'm currently running Ubuntu and I've been very happy with it. And for people who want to brand Ubuntu as n00b Linux, I'd like to say that there are many of us IT pros who just like the simplicity.

Previously I've used Red Hat, Mandrake and Debian and I don't really have bad things to say about any of them.

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ScepterDonFetti

Jan 1 2008, 09:55 AM

I just got finished installing Kubuntu and setting up a Lamp server. I am very impressed in
how easy it was to install. I used the live CD and It blew my mind that I could be running an
OS and be installing the same OS at the same time. I was checking email, surfing the web
and getting used to the feel of my OS while it was installing.

Then to set up my LAMP I used one command:

CONSOLE

> sudo apt-get install apache2 php5 php5-mysql php5-gd mysql-server phpmyadmin

This is the quickest I've ever setup a web server. I won't be using winsucks for a long time
that is probably to never going to come.

If you ask me it's easier to use than windows ever was anyway. The only problem I'm having
is finding a driver for my printer. It's a Lexmark and all I can find on their website is a Linux
Development Kit.

Guess if I ever get bored enough I'll write a driver then share it with the world.

Miles

Dec 26 2007, 02:36 PM

I'd say have to say fedora core, it's a good mid-range distro and is neither too hard nor too easy, and althought I found setting up NDISwrapper hard (my wireless network card isn't directly supported), it's still a good distro. I dual-boot it with windows XP.

dewslat

Dec 26 2007, 12:33 PM

this is not likely to be an issue on whats what and whos who... everyone has their own preferred distro. thats why there are hell of a bunch of them. with all the features and issues with it.. i have been in so many distro and a regular visitor of www.distrowatch.com and i love the way every distro compete. about 8 years ago when the linux scene became to increase the number of users, i also eager to join except that i dont have broadband before and access to it would really be time and money consuming. but for those linux geeks out there, here is my best choices of distro for different uses.

High End System - 3Ghz Processor, 2Gig Ram, 512Mb Video
Sabayon - With its fully functional 3D graphics out of the box!

Mid Range System 2Ghs Processor, 512 Ram, 128Mb Video
Ubunto - Very Easy Interface with easy to update and install programs and becoming industry standard(never mind about the criticisms from the geeky linux PROS)

Low End System - Basically what you can get from the garbage can which I have a lot of them
Zenwalk - So damn easy to use and install that has everything a standard PC OS should have. Really fast and no crap linux under 500mb! Great people and support! A++ even for newbies

pyost

Dec 26 2007, 08:35 AM

QUOTE(mikesoft @ Dec 26 2007, 04:50 AM)

I've been a windows user for a long time. Recently I switched to linux (ubuntu 7.10) and I must say I'm impressed. I have it installed on my laptop working as a web server (LAMP) though I must say I didn't know anything about linux and ubuntu makes it easy for you, I had to research a lot over the net to be able to do all the stuff I wanted to do, like, to open a root window without switching to root account and stuff like that.

It's been working well for over a week.

On my laptop I have a windows/ubuntu dual boot, because I still use lots of games for windows, though some of them run with wine on ubuntu, but some of them don't.

For any who is tempted to switch, DO EET! its easy, I suggest ubuntu, as it is amazing linux distribution, its better than vista, believe it or not.

Exactly the same goes for me - except I installed it on a desktop machine, not a laptop one. So far, so good. Makes web development and site administration (i.e. through SSH) easier and faster than in Windows.

Sten

Dec 26 2007, 05:03 AM

can i just say something?

one answer i can give u to this question is this, not centos! its meant to be professional isnt it? i hate it! maybe for a server but no one could seriously want to use it just for their computer. its disgusting. and every version seems to get worse. do they downgrade their version of kde and gnome in each version? it still looks like fedora 1.

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