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Crash-Override Joined: Feb 20, 2009 Posts: 3 Location:Dallas, TX Other Topics	Posted Feb 20, 2009 at 5:44:32 PM Subject: OFFICIAL: Distro battle thread Gentoo > * (for personal) CentOS > * (for production) HACKERS OF THE WORLD UNITE!
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Rubberman Joined Jul 30, 2007 Posts: 944 Location:40 miles west of Chicago Other Topics	Posted: Feb 20, 2009 8:11:34 PM Subject: OFFICIAL: Distro battle thread I won't argue that, though Gentoo is a bit much for noobs, and it helps to have a really complete inventory of your hardware in order to configure the OS correctly! Also, you really need a printout of the installation/configuration docs, which are a couple hundred pages, if I recall correctly. I think I killed an entire grove of trees the first time I successfully built a Gentoo system... Sometimes real fast is almost as good as real time. Remember, Google is your friend!
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ralphsmole Joined Feb 20, 2009 Posts: 1 Other Topics	Posted: Feb 20, 2009 9:50:13 PM Subject: OFFICIAL: Distro battle thread I ran Ubuntu for a LONG time. Recently switched to Linux Mint and love it!! Even though it's based on Ubuntu, it's much better and I even got the kids and wife to use it :-) One step closer to getting them weened away from Winblows. My PC has had Linux for a long time. Next step is the wife's laptop!!
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Reed Joined Feb 07, 2008 Posts: 758 Other Topics	Posted: Feb 20, 2009 10:02:57 PM Subject: OFFICIAL: Distro battle thread Arch Linux for me, followed by Sidux. Neither are really for new folks, though.
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Rubberman Joined Jul 30, 2007 Posts: 944 Location:40 miles west of Chicago Other Topics	Posted: Feb 21, 2009 4:25:42 AM Subject: OFFICIAL: Distro battle thread My wife's laptop is a PowerMac G4 (17"). She runs OSX and Linux at work, hates Winblows, and has a PhD in particle physics. Of course, she won't let me anywhere near her systems! :-) Sometimes real fast is almost as good as real time. Remember, Google is your friend!
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Joined Jul 26, 2008 Posts: 703 Location: Other Topics	Posted: Feb 21, 2009 10:00:31 PM Subject: OFFICIAL: Distro battle thread Alright, I'll bite. Puppy or AntiX>Personal Ubuntu> Server/Production Ubuntus support may cost more than redhat or Opensuse but from what I've read it gives you more than either.
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proopnarine Joined Apr 03, 2008 Posts: 590 Location:San Francisco Other Topics	Posted: Feb 22, 2009 6:30:09 PM Subject: OFFICIAL: Distro battle thread I have been a long-time devotee of Red Hat systems. All my "production" machines run Fedora 8-10. A combination of ease of installation/management plus access to many well packaged computing tools keeps me faithful. All my other machines run Kubuntu. So I'll make this worse: I use KDE only. No Gnome on my machines. Fedora support for KDE is fine, and Kubuntu is, well... Take the red pill Climate Change Blog Food Weblog
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jstphnd Joined Jan 21, 2009 Posts: 2 Other Topics	Posted: Feb 24, 2009 4:12:52 AM Subject: Re: OFFICIAL: Distro battle thread ive been using linux a little over a yr, have tried numerous distributions and always go back to fedora with gnome
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FieserKiller Joined Jan 12, 2009 Posts: 25 Other Topics	Posted: Feb 24, 2009 6:24:06 AM Subject: OFFICIAL: Distro battle thread gentoo@home ubuntu@girlfriend gentoo@embedded systems gentoo@lan servers suse@internet servers Im not really happy with suse, wanna move to debian for future internet servers but I'm to lazy to migrate the existing ones... and suse is not sooo bad at all ;) @rubberman: hint: save the trees, just use another term to access the guides on cd with lynx next time ;)
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Rubberman Joined Jul 30, 2007 Posts: 944 Location:40 miles west of Chicago Other Topics	Posted: Feb 24, 2009 3:51:14 PM Subject: OFFICIAL: Distro battle thread Regarding accessing guides on cd with lynx - that's fine as far as it goes, but it is nice to have hard copy in the lap when grinding thru the configuration of the hardware, etc. It also works better in the loo... :-) Sometimes real fast is almost as good as real time. Remember, Google is your friend!
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roundst Joined Feb 27, 2009 Posts: 1 Other Topics	Posted: Feb 27, 2009 9:07:30 PM Subject: OFFICIAL: Distro battle thread i use mandriva 2009 at home 2008 on most office servers, centos 5.2 on other servers, Fedora 10 on laptops. no probs with any - all do pretty much as asked. I do like to mess more with the mandriva 2009 box though c
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proopnarine Joined Apr 03, 2008 Posts: 590 Location:San Francisco Other Topics	Posted: Feb 28, 2009 3:18:10 AM Subject: OFFICIAL: Distro battle thread Rubberman, try an eee PC for the loo. Just kidding! Loved your comment. Take the red pill Climate Change Blog Food Weblog
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Rubberman Joined Jul 30, 2007 Posts: 944 Location:40 miles west of Chicago Other Topics	Posted: Mar 01, 2009 2:21:51 AM Subject: OFFICIAL: Distro battle thread It's also handy when I run out of tp... :^) Sometimes real fast is almost as good as real time. Remember, Google is your friend!
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digitalironman Joined Feb 19, 2009 Posts: 9 Other Topics	Posted: Mar 02, 2009 6:20:19 AM Subject: OFFICIAL: Distro battle thread All I'm going to say is application dictates incarnation. A good saying no matter the situation.
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STiAT Joined Mar 05, 2009 Posts: 11 Other Topics	Posted: Mar 05, 2009 2:29:11 PM Subject: OFFICIAL: Distro battle thread +1 Arch Linux on my desktops +1 Arch LInux on my virtual (playground) +1 RedHat or Ubuntu LTS on production Servers +100 The right distribution for your needs, make your own choice.
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Mike Joined Jan 02, 2009 Posts: 58 Other Topics	Posted: Mar 09, 2009 12:38:26 PM Subject: OFFICIAL: Distro battle thread I'm a suse w/ KDE fan.
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Shashank Sharma Joined Jan 01, 1970 Posts: 1657 Location:New Delhi, India Other Topics	Posted: Mar 10, 2009 6:22:22 AM Subject: OFFICIAL: Distro battle thread I might get some heat for this, already have actually, but I say Gentoo, Debian and Slackware aren't for first time Linux users. I've used these all, I love them all, but I'm saying first time Linux users should stay away from all three. Shameless blog link where I discussed this: http://linuxlala.net/thoughts/2009/02/20/linux-distributions-new-users-should-avoid/ Coauthor of Beginning Fedora: From Novice to Professional published by Apress. Please follow the Forum Guidelines
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Mike Joined Jan 02, 2009 Posts: 58 Other Topics	Posted: Mar 10, 2009 2:19:23 PM Subject: OFFICIAL: Distro battle thread Shashank: I concur. Unbuntu though Debian based is geared for newbies.
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proopnarine Joined Apr 03, 2008 Posts: 590 Location:San Francisco Other Topics	Posted: Mar 11, 2009 3:15:26 AM Subject: OFFICIAL: Distro battle thread I agree also, but I'll add that for the _adventurous_ newbies, I would recommend Fedora. Take the red pill Climate Change Blog Food Weblog
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Warmotor Joined Apr 25, 2008 Posts: 24 Other Topics	Posted: Mar 16, 2009 10:50:44 PM Subject: OFFICIAL: Distro battle thread I actually started my Linux journey with Fedora, and it was kind of cool to learn about dependency hell and makefiles. Of course I'm more _adventurous_ than most, I'd say skip the irritation and get cozy with Synaptic. I know it catches some heat for being mainstream, but LTS Ubuntu just keeps getting better. For an old machine, SimplyMEPIS is teh shnitzle.
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