What Linux distribution do you use?

#1 Gentoo.

Its a compile it all from source distro.

-Tim aka Spock

#2 Debian

it's free and after testing several distros, this is the one I like best. not for absolute beginners, though. if the commandline initimidates you, try something else instead.

#3 Slackware: nice and clean

Got root?

#4 Debian on the desktop, Mandrake on the laptop, SmoothWall on the firewall (nice firewall distro, but they've changed their license from GPL to some non-GPL, which might cause problems in the future).

However, reviews of Gentoo from around the web, and Spock's experiences with it have convinced me to switch my desktop to it (I just gotta finish school work first). If that goes well, then it's gentoo on the laptop as well.

#5 I finally managed to get Mandrake 8.2 installed and working. It seems to be a nice small footprint; no KDE or Gnome and just IceWM light.

Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda6 1011M 509M 503M 51% /
/dev/hda8 839M 62M 778M 8% /home

I managed to build the Torque engine as a dedicated server on this setup. Perfect - exactly what I wanted!

#6 Red Hat 7.2- I like it, even though it's probably the largest. Lots of system tools, and what I believe is the best set of user manuals...docs...etc...

#7 I tried Mandrake, and also Peanut Linux. Although Peanut was small and cool, the setup in Mandrake was much easier (and more accurate). Mandrake provides a full development environment out of the box, but Peanut didn't even have gcc or Make, so I had to install them off of my Mandrake disk :)

So, Mandrake 8.2. A joy to install, and I haven't managed to break it yet...

#8 Red Hate

#9 SuSE, always liked lizards...

And hey, ever picked up a Chameleon? Those little lizzies really know how to bite!

Matt

#10 Linux as a workstation?

ROFLMAO!

#11 I guess your not a Power user there Anthony?

..
Linux has many great development tools.
and IMHO it is funner than windows :)

once was said
"Linux Is user friendly ... its just carefull when choosing friends"


vi is where all real men (Edit:and women too im sure)write the best code.

if you know your project .. and arent learning the ropes,
vi is the best editor as it allow's you to move the fastest.

#12 Don't roll or laugh too hard, your windows might crack. ;-)

Suse 7.3.

#13 Red Hat 9.0, works great, Torque compiled with no problems with gcc3 and ran just fine (had to install OpenAL of course, but the rest of the needed libs came in the distro if I remember right). So far all contributed patches and resources I've tried have worked just fine also. Using the the nVidia X driver for my GeForce 4 Ti4400 it seems even faster than under Win2K on the same box, but I haven't done any frame rate comparisons though, so this claim is only anecdotal and subjective. I haven't booted back to Win2K since, but I do have another box running WinXP that I use for modelling and audio work.

#14 You know, I love windows and all, and I don't have a problem with linux. I've actually been meaning to get a Gentoo box up and running so I can dig in and really get linux under my belt.

What I can't stand is the closed-minded fanaticism that seems to permeate the linux community. Windows is a good product. If you don't agree, then fine, but the tens (maybe hundreds) of millions of windows users don't seem to think so.

Linux is also a great product. Each have their own uses, and each has strengths and weaknesses. Their tools, and you use the appropriate tool for the job. When 2 tools are of equal effectiveness in getting the job done, go with personal preference. IMO, it's not worth the waste of breath to berate the other guy for using a tool that you wouldn't.

#15 I have Mandrake 9.1 running on my two servers, and I've got a couple spare boxes that will probably be getting different distro's whenever I get time to rebuild them. One will be Gentoo, one will be a random distro with MythTV (backup PVR).

#16 Gentoo.

#17 Red Hat 8 and 7.3 in different boxes. FreeSCO acting as a router in a heroic 486/33 with 8 MB of RAM and no hard drive! Also using the RH8 box for cross-compilation to Win32 targets.

#18 Guess that anthony guy is an asshole...

Debian here.

Changing debian with gentoo? Bad decision.

#19 Debian, since pre-1.0. Never had a compelling reason to change.

'Small' is relative. Any distro is small, as long as you take the time to remove the fluff. I've lately eschewed KDE and GNOME in favor of pure X11 w/ WindowMaker or twm. Tastes great, less filling!

#20 Debian got upgraded to gentoo over here...on several different boxes. Lately, I've been slowly treading (sp?) into the FreeBSD world...which is probably the easiest OS I've ever had to install.