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| Acmlm's Board - I2 Archive - Hardware/Software - GNU/Linux distributions, which one? |
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KaOSoFt Goomba Level: 8  Posts: 18/20 EXP: 2065 For next: 122 Since: 05-18-04 From: Colombia Since last post: 156 days Last activity: 156 days |
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| I know there are some post similar somewhere, but this is most specific and it's more technical in the sense that I will ask specific things. First : I would like to know which distrubution do you use (if you do currently) and why. Second : It would be cool if you could provide some advantages and disadvantages (pros and cons) for the different distributions you HAVE tried, not guesses here, please. Third : I'd like you to help me clasify different distros for different kind of users, I mean, home VS company. Which one would be better for different cases, needs, etc., and what requirements are needed for each one. Fourth : Please don't comment other people posts, just let them be, we'll try to open a space for it when the main, important things have been said already. Thanks for your support and I will be waiting for your awesome answers. [HH: Fixed misplaced smilies.] (edited by HyperHacker on 04-09-05 12:50 PM) |
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||bass Programmer Admin Level: 44  Posts: 291/817 EXP: 570813 For next: 40472 Since: 03-15-04 From: Salem, Connecticut Since last post: 26 days Last activity: 11 days |
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| http://eedok.voidofmind.com/linux/chooser.html Check this out. This quiz thing actually gives good results. I tried out the distro it said I might like (never heard of it before then) and it turned out to be a freakin pwn distro. |
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KaOSoFt Goomba Level: 8 Posts: 19/20 EXP: 2065 For next: 122 Since: 05-18-04 From: Colombia Since last post: 156 days Last activity: 156 days |
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| Actually, I was looking for personal comments, understand me? Although that link is awesomely cool, and I may edit it (translation, etc.) and make it public so people can get its benefits, I need "real" information about my questions. Anyways, if you, personally, have tried some GNU/Linux distributions, please, support my "investigation". I will, eventually, have to try some of them.  (edited by KaOSoFt on 04-08-05 11:40 AM) |
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Vystrix Nexoth Level: 30 Posts: 298/348 EXP: 158678 For next: 7191 Since: 03-15-04 From: somewhere between anima and animus Since last post: 3 days Last activity: 2 days |
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| so far the only one I've tried (besides the occasional fling with Knoppix) is Slackware 10.0, which I chose because it struck me as a "generic" distro, i.e. without some distro-specific distrubution/upgrade system like RedHat/Debian/Gentoo/etc. Plus, Slackware 10 had just come out at the time when I was looking for a distro, so I had a go with it. Been using it since. | |||
FreeDOS Lava Lotus Wannabe-Mod :< Level: 59 Posts: 1340/1657 EXP: 1648646 For next: 24482 Since: 03-15-04 From: Seattle Since last post: 6 hours Last activity: 4 hours |
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That quiz actually gave me my favourite distro as best choice. Yay.  I use Slackware, because it doesn't screw around with software to the point of major incompatibility (like Red Hat and deriatives/clones). Slackware: Pro: Easy to install, software is left alone except for bug and security patches, doesn't default to any software so you have 100% choice (and time to mess with things). Con: Package management is lacking, so if you don't want to compile things...  Fedora Core: Pro: Graphical installer, easy for someone coming from Windows where things are done automatically, RPMs are easy to install. Con: No NTFS support built-in (Red Hat has never said why, but easy to add it), up2date crashes often, slow. SuSE: Pro: Don't know any. Con: Screwed over my NTFS partition while resizing it, didn't install into a bootable system. Knoppix: Pro: LiveCD, tons of software, great to show GNU/Linux to people unfamilar or not wanting to do partitioning. Con: Slow (only due to being booted on CD-ROM media), settings aren't saved if you don't have a USB drive to save them to. In general... there's usually no distro specific to just home users or just business users. There are distros specific to different functions. Such as server distros (web, firewall, router), where you need very little software and no X Window System. |
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||bass Programmer Admin Level: 44 Posts: 299/817 EXP: 570813 For next: 40472 Since: 03-15-04 From: Salem, Connecticut Since last post: 26 days Last activity: 11 days |
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| That quiz works shockingly well actually. It told me about a distro that I had never heard of called Ubuntu. I tried it and I freakin LOVE IT. Ubunt has, hands down, the BEST package manager there is. |
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