What Linux distribution do you use?
by Mike Stoddart · in Technical Issues · 05/02/2002 (8:19 pm) · 111 replies
I was just wondering what Linux distribution everyone uses? I'm trying to find a small distro, that will work nicely, so I'm trying Lycoris.
Thanks
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#102
tried a few debian types, pretty pissed at the configuration of them.
slack is the only box I seem to like the configuration means.
haven't bothered installing ubuntu, too mainstream for me.
it's all about the simplicity and removing control, adding stuff I don't need.
so I will just stick to the basics.
it's more fun for me.
12/08/2006 (11:46 am)
Slackware 11.0tried a few debian types, pretty pissed at the configuration of them.
slack is the only box I seem to like the configuration means.
haven't bothered installing ubuntu, too mainstream for me.
it's all about the simplicity and removing control, adding stuff I don't need.
so I will just stick to the basics.
it's more fun for me.
#103
Tightly integrated dependency handling might appear to simplify things, but too many times in the past I've encountered odd circumstances which arose from doing several fairly moderate upgrades. Nowadays I tend to just setup a clean copy of Windows and even Linux on my workstation every few months to avoid problems, but as for Linux I still keep going back to Slackware. I've had fairly decent experience with the later versions of Fedora, but I still can't stand the performance hit the larger and more popular distros have. Normally I can handle all issues on my own, so it's not a matter of which distro is supported, as they all use a Linux kernel, GNU userland and compilers, glibc, and things like SDL and X11.
TGE works fine on Slackware, if you know how to use ldd, know how to compile and install packages/software. It's been very stable, although I'm a beginner with it all. (TGE and programming in general that is...)
Been using Slackware since 8.2, and before that I used Red Hat 7.3, which was the first distro I used full time. The first distro I ever used was IcePack Linux, which is now dead. I've flipped many times between Gentoo and Slackware, and have experience with Debian as well, but I lately have found that Gentoo is working better for me on my non-production workstation. I really have always loved FreeBSD ports, and find Gentoo portage to be more reliable than apt or rpm, but sometimes the Slackware flatfile package management wins out. It's a hard decision, but I really would recommend either distro to most developers. As for Fedora and Debian, it's your call if you use it, and if you like it, then more power to you. I've been a sysadmin for years, so I am kind of bias against certain distros.
06/01/2007 (5:20 am)
I normally just use Slackware and modify it to my needs. I guess you could call me a power user but no distro really suits me, and Slackware feels like IRIX to me, which is simple and easy to modify. I prefer the BSD rc init system over sysv, and prefer Gentoo and Slackware's package management system over apt and yum. I prefer FreeBSD as a server, and I have ran it as a desktop in the past, but for game programming I can be found running VMware for some things, and bare metal Windows on another box for heavy modeling, so I tend to use Linux.Tightly integrated dependency handling might appear to simplify things, but too many times in the past I've encountered odd circumstances which arose from doing several fairly moderate upgrades. Nowadays I tend to just setup a clean copy of Windows and even Linux on my workstation every few months to avoid problems, but as for Linux I still keep going back to Slackware. I've had fairly decent experience with the later versions of Fedora, but I still can't stand the performance hit the larger and more popular distros have. Normally I can handle all issues on my own, so it's not a matter of which distro is supported, as they all use a Linux kernel, GNU userland and compilers, glibc, and things like SDL and X11.
TGE works fine on Slackware, if you know how to use ldd, know how to compile and install packages/software. It's been very stable, although I'm a beginner with it all. (TGE and programming in general that is...)
Been using Slackware since 8.2, and before that I used Red Hat 7.3, which was the first distro I used full time. The first distro I ever used was IcePack Linux, which is now dead. I've flipped many times between Gentoo and Slackware, and have experience with Debian as well, but I lately have found that Gentoo is working better for me on my non-production workstation. I really have always loved FreeBSD ports, and find Gentoo portage to be more reliable than apt or rpm, but sometimes the Slackware flatfile package management wins out. It's a hard decision, but I really would recommend either distro to most developers. As for Fedora and Debian, it's your call if you use it, and if you like it, then more power to you. I've been a sysadmin for years, so I am kind of bias against certain distros.
#104
07/28/2007 (12:35 pm)
Suse 10.2
#105
08/03/2007 (6:26 am)
I'm gona use ubuntu which is the most popular distrib... as it's debian based i prefer Ubuntu than a RedHAt based distribs...
#106
08/07/2007 (6:44 am)
Slackware. Rock solid, great community just like this one.
#108
09/09/2007 (12:58 pm)
I tried Knoppix but I couldn't connect to a Wifi network and it kept crashing
#109
Heh, this thread is ancient..
09/09/2007 (7:28 pm)
PCLinuxOS was the last one I've tried, and not for awhile...Heh, this thread is ancient..
#111
10/24/2007 (12:11 pm)
I use Fedora for my Laptop/Desktop and CentOS for my servers. Windows only advantage is market share. 
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There is a little hack you need because of reliance on a bug in libSDL, but other than that you should be good to go regardless of distro.
I'm currently running Kubuntu Edgy (It's the best desktop distro I've ever tried)
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