What distro do you use?

[Kamel]

just curious -- usually a poll like this exists on message forums. being a gaming forum with linux, i feel a poll of what distro/flavor/os you like best would be helpful in deciding which distro to use for gaming.

me personally, i love gentoo linux. the customizability and seeing only 1 thing when i do lsmod makes me almost as happy as using 40mb of memory when i first boot and start the GUI. btw, stage one install; of course.

[netviper13]

I use Fedora, and am currently downloading Core 2.

[connyosis]

Used Redhat, Mandrake and Slackware before I tried Gentoo. Now, I'm never going back. Gentoo rocks, period.

[Kamel]

heh, i totally agree. btw, i've probably tried more distros than most have... i've tried redhat, mandrake, suse, slackware, freebsd, knoppix (is that considered "trying a distro"?), and debian. -- so my opinion isn't based on a "i'm used to this distro so i use it" basis; like many are ;/

[utanja]

i have used RH since v. 5 thru 9 and fedora1...but i settle into debian....i like the minumal amount of bloat and hate RH ne w policy about service and support...

[paulmer2003]

i use Slackware. ive tryed Redhat, shedrake (mandrake), redhat, freebsd. i hated redhat and mandrake there 2 nooby and bloat'y for me. i then tryed freebsd and it was okay, it was fast, but i had 2 learn a new os (unix/bsd) and that was a pain in tha ass then i tryed slackware and i loved it. moral of stopry, use slackware

[paulmer2003]

also, on mac os x. so x is VERY nice and it would b toe and tow w/ linux. i love mac's. but the problem is that they are so damn over priced, it is amazing. someday i will get a mac...i hope

[Imek]

I'm using Gentoo- I've tried many distros, and it's the one that appeals to me most. Though I am also planning to try FreeBSD and Debian soon.

[sorinakis]

I'm using TFM (Alpha Desktop Preview), so I voted "other" :)

[kurt454]

Using Slackware 9.1 on one machine. Playing around with Fedora Core 2.

[dschueths]

Poll should separate RedHat from Fedora....not many users of RedHat anymore.

[Kamel]

Poll should separate RedHat from Fedora....not many users of RedHat anymore.

that's actually why i combined them *shruggs*

if you like i suppose i could fix it

[johnydoe]

using fedora core 2 atm, like it...noobish, but with some tweaks it can be somewhat more 'geekish' then out-of-the-box :)

i'd like to some day be able to install gentoo, but the last time i tried it (2 months ago or so) i wasn't able to understand what they wanted me to do with the stages install and such :P

[John5788]

gentoo for a couple months now.

[romeoinrippdjns]

used to use debain, but went back to mandrake for a while to teach my other half about linux... damn i miss apt-get :(

[lightman]

Poll should separate RedHat from Fedora....not many users of RedHat anymore.


Not really true. A lot of firms and universities still use RH. Eck, a lot of them are still using rh 7.3 or even older versions.

Here, at the Dept. of Physics at the University of Milan, Italy, we're still using a mix of RH9 and RH8 (only a couple of boxes on more than 30, but still...).

Fedora is not at option atm, mainly because of the incompatibilities w/ some programs/drivers.

Not to mention the clusters, where fedora (w/ 2.6) is way too bleeding edge atm. When you have to run a 16 or 32 boxes cluster 24/7 w/ some important simulations running on it, you have to be damn sure that os doesn't screw things up. ;)

[mikemarv]

Debian and suse 9.0 64 bit but mainly debian. I love debian , apt-get rules

[thomas21]

Started with SuSE about 4 years ago, not bad, but I like Debian (unstable) very much.
Now all my machines run Debian unstable with custom kernels 2.6+
(on my AMD64 machine I run the bleeding edge Debian AMD64 port) :super:

[tijn]

Used Suse, Mandrake, Debian, Gentoo on a dual celeron, stuck with Gentoo and it now runs the dual celeron, p4 and am64, all on some sort of 2.6 flavored kernel. It's a bliss upgrading the entire system now using distcc ;)

[Steven301]

Suse 9.1 pro, using suse since 6.3, have not tryed installing the suse 9.1 64bit edition just yet.

[darkshadow]

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