What's Your Favorite Distro

[paradox]

Well I have to say your one lucky man! I would like to give them a low blow, right to the groin!

Aragorn

[Mojo]

Well rather than me sayign what my favourite is first.. id liek to say what my least favourite is...

*gulp*

MANDRAKE!

Arghhhhh I used to use it - but i got so much hassal from it...

Everything is preconfigured! ARGH WHAT CAN I DO NOW! It feels like Windows! ARGH! Everythign feels cluttered - and to get mandrake lookign nice (for me anyway) theres lots of stuff i had to mess with - for startedr that silly mandrake menu thing..

Oka my fave is Redhat - and next in line is Slackware - 7.1 is giving me some problems so im on RH7.1 atm - now slackware 8.0 is still being downloaded (moo) and ill try that out soon!

I await your flame!

Mojo

(PS why is the text below this editbox so damn tiny...)

[johnqpublic]

No flame from me. I use SuSE and didn't care for Drake all that much either.

[Swishy]

Running Mandrake 8.2 found I had issues with WineX under redhat 7.2 , runs smooth as under Mandrake 8.2

[historyb]

Hi,

I use Linux now and I really like it, now. This is my story.

I first heard about Linux on the internet and went and purchased a generic copy that had no name expect for Linux. Well I hated it from the get go. It was extremely hard to install and did not configure well nor did it pick up my hardware. I had to do it all.

Mad and frustrated I took out the CD and throw it in my BBQ. I vowed never to use it again until someone came out with a distribution that picked up hardware and was friendly to install.

That was about two years ago; than the Linux bug bit me again when I read about Mandrake 8.1 almost a year ago I believe. The Mandrake team boasted of an easy install and PnP type of deal so I made good on my vow and went and bought it and started to install the new OS. (As an aside I didn’t download it because 1) I had dial-up at the time and 2) I wanted a book from the distribution itself.) I loved it. The install went great and picked up all hardware with the exception of my modem, because it was a win modem. I didn’t worry about that because I was going to DSL anyway.

I am now up to Mandrake 8.2 and once again it has preformed excellently and I was able to get everything I used in Windows, without the hassle of Windows. I just moved over completely to Mandrake from a dual boot station and everything is going great.

I recommend Mandrake Linux highly myself.

I am sure there are two different types of people. Ones who are purist, who believe that the GUI and such are to much and the ones like myself who are happy that finally there is a distribution of Linux that can give Windows a run for its money. ;D

One more thing I am excited about the newest flavor of Linux coming out called Lindows. It is suppose to run Windows software. Has anyone tried it yet?

[VampyreUK]

... but it didn't seem to natively support my Promise IDE RAID array. Nor, rather suprisingly, did Red Hat 7.3!

To say I like SuSE 8.0 would be stretching it but it's the only one that does seem to support my RAID ... QED :-)

VampyreUK

[JimH]

... but it didn't seem to natively support my Promise IDE RAID array. Nor, rather suprisingly, did Red Hat 7.3!

Only a few of the Promise controllers are supported under Linux without using Promise's binary drivers. In my opinion using binary drivers is not an option.

Easiest way to find out which ones are supported is to look at the options available when compiling a kernel or just look at the source code. You can look here for a list of IDE controllers supported by open source drivers.

http://www.linux-ide.org/

Jim H

[howie6267]

I am a new linux user and choose redhat I have a friend that uses it and dicided to go that route. Install went well I have a dual boot laptop with W2K and RH7.3

[Swishy]

Running Mandrake 8.2 found I had issues with WineX under redhat 7.2 , runs smooth as under Mandrake 8.2

mmm I take this back now, GENTOO rocks...... ;D

[johnqpublic]

Hmmmm,what is this Gentoo thing? Many folks seem to like it. Got lots of drive space. Maybe, I should give this Distro a try, or wait for Xandros!


PS!! SuSE 8.0 rocks