Whats Your Favorite Linux Distro?

[CyberGeek]

Hey,

I was just wondering what everyone's favorite linux distro is... Mine is BackTrack. Whats yours?

[Null]

Such an obscure Linux distro surely earns you geek points..

I've used Suse, Fedora Core, and I've spent about 1/2 hours with Gentoo. In the end, Ubuntu works well and lets me play around with a CLI when I want to.

[r.3volved]

My favorite installation distro is Slackware (I just finished downloading the DVD install of 11.0 w00t)

I use a whole bunch of live distros on an almost regular basis for work and ...ummm fun

Knoppix STD, Auditor, Backtrack and Ophcrack are my favs in the live category

[CyberGeek]

Null wrote:

Such an obscure Linux distro surely earns you geek points..

I've used Suse, Fedora Core, and I've spent about 1/2 hours with Gentoo. In the end, Ubuntu works well and lets me play around with a CLI when I want to.

Well I am a G33K ... lol. Just kidding about the leet speak crap. Ya. I love BackTrack....

[md]

CyberGeek wrote:

Hey,

I was just wondering what everyone's favorite linux distro is... Mine is BackTrack. Whats yours?

Interesting choice, considering it's intended use

I use gentoo on all my computers (workstation, server, laptop). I've tried ubuntu and hated the package management, tried freebsd (not technically linux) on the laptop and it worked great for hte most part; but I found ports to be lacking in some of the software I've come to expect from linux and ports isn't quite as nice as portage.

For a really interesting venture into the world of *nix systems work check out Minix. It's a micro-kernel based unix system V clone. It's got plenty of power; but is simple enough that it won't break your brain going over then entire kernel (yes... I have reaqd every single line in the minix 2.0 kernel... very enlightening).

[timmytheturtle]

My distro of choice is ArchLinux, it's really plain and not bloated with useless applications. Binary packages in the repositories, or you compile everything using the arch building system (abs). I also tried Ubuntu, Gentoo, Fedora Core 4, Knoppix, Debian. And out of all of them, I like ArchLinux the best.

[apomb]

Ubuntu for me, i like Fedora Core as well, but i havent been able to get it downloaded. i use that at school, and ive also used Red Hat and Knoppix.

[rdrake]

Used countless Linux distros... preferred I Debian out of them all. Though it was early when I first tried SuSE and Gentoo, so that's not really fair to them. I also recommend Ubuntu over Debian for a beginner, definitely.

My vote would have to go with FreeBSD, despite it not actually being a Linux distro.

[Craige]

I'm not great with linux, but I generally use Slackware.

--Edit--

Now after this talk of Linux, I went and reinstalled Slackware.

[Amailer]

So far only used ArchLinux, used SuSE for .. a couple of hours Anyhow, ArchLinux is cool, I like it

[bugzpodder]

Im tempted to say Microsoft Linux

[Craige]

bugzpodder wrote:

Im tempted to say Microsoft Linux

lol. You almost could if you ran Wine to emmulate allot of Adobe's programs.

Anyway, while were discussing Linux, lets talk desktop enviorments aswell. I really like XFCE, except it's default file manager (though I have gotten used to it because I don't want to install a new one), and a few other things

[wtd]

Ubuntu

[Tony]

Ubuntu

(although the prefered OS by far is OS X)

my mom hates both

[md]

Craige wrote:

bugzpodder wrote:

Im tempted to say Microsoft Linux

lol. You almost could if you ran Wine to emmulate allot of Adobe's programs.

Microsoft Linux is actually a spoof site