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What's your favorite flavor?
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Posted about 1 year ago What is your favorite distribution of Linux and why? Personally, I've always been a Debian fanboy. I could never get into Ubuntu despite its recent popularity and the fact that it's just a redistribution of Debian. I'm just not crazy about the way it's presented and packaged. Being an old school Linux user/admin, I'm quite accustomed to and more comfortable in terminals than in the GUI. As far as Linux goes, I only run X Windows when I need to see images. Everything else can be done (and usually faster/more efficiently) from a terminal. |
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| Posted about 1 year ago OK, I admit it... I love my Ubuntu. Yes its built on the Debian kernel - and the best distros usually are. I don't have the time or the patience to deal with Fedora, and I have no suicidal tendencies so don't ask me to spend weeks messing with something like Slackware. Like the tagline for Ubuntu says, "it just works." And that's what I like about it. From the ease of installation, to the stability of the platform - the security-by-default of the server version, and the fact that its the only flavor that immediately recognized all of my peripherals and installed the correct drivers, that was a BIG plus. I first started as a Linux user in 1993 with Caldera, and finally gave up on them when they decided they didn' t want to be a desktop OS anymore. Tried Fedora 5.0 thru 7.0, but grew weary of the constant battle with device drivers. Found Ubu 3 years ago, and became instantly hooked. Now if they could just figure out how to make the Debian kernel support DirectX I'd never touch another Windows machine... but I'm addicted to my games, so I guess I'm stuck with the MS mess. |
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| Posted about 1 year ago i just got into linux around 2 years ago. the only distros i have used are ubuntu and Suse. i like ubuntu because it easier to use and i'm more familiar with it. last year i started a project at one of my schools to save old hardware and put EDubuntu on them for internet and word processing considering thats the only reason a student should need it. i had 40 pentium 4s with other hardware that barely worked and it had WinXP proffesional on it. anyway ubuntu worked great on them and the students that i was testing it on seemed to like it, however getting IE to work on them sucked royally because i couldn't use terminal or wine through the districts proxy. currently i'm getting mroe familiar with Suse so maybe that will change in the future
also does anyone here have a linux + cert? i might need a few tips for that cert. |
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| Posted about 1 year ago I personally favor Linux Ubuntu as well, it is both versatile and graphically appealing. It recognizes most hardware devices and has proven to be very compatible with USB and input devices as well. Also, though it uses the Gnome environment, its very diverse, you can make gnome to be virtually whatever you want it to be. Also, with the wine debian package for it, you dont even need windows anymore if anyone is dual booting. My point is, with the user-friendliness, technical acceptance, and overall performance of Ubuntu goes above and beyond those of most distributions. |
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| Posted about 1 year ago Hi guys and gals, Im fairly new to the Unix/Linux world. I was first introduced to this wonderful world on a RHEL 4 box way back when, but didn't really get into it until recently when I started doing first level support for all Unix/Linux server issues. Granted I did take classes in college, but I still didn't get down and dirty with it if you will until recently. My perfered "flavor" actually differs depending on what the box is going to be used for. For any of the desktops/workstations that I have setup, I perfer Ubuntu as its pretty user friendly for the first time users and has the ability to be expanded easily to provide additional functionality if needed.These machines includes a couple of my friends that I converted from windows, my own PC that I use as a media center(it's hooked up to my surrond sound and the 50" HDTV), and lastly but most enjoyably, my beautiful PS3 which is used primarily for video/graphical(2D and 3D)/musical editing. For the server that I have setup, I am currently using CentOS 5 at the recomendation of my Unix team at work. This is the first server that I have setup but so far I like CentOS much better that the server setup of Ubuntu. I'll probly end up asking you guys a few questions if no one minds. Always Looking to Learn, |
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| Posted about 1 year ago I started using Linux with Red Hat, hated it, found Debian hated it for a while too. Then a friend of mine convinced me to give a newer vresion of Debian a try. That managed to get working on some older hardware I have as a home web server and back up location. I've played with different version of Debian, Solarius and Ubuntu on my laptop and the only one I was ever able to get working in Ubuntu 8.04 and have since used it exclusively over the Windows Vista that came with the laptop except in the rare instance Wine and Crossover can't run an application. I will be converting my server over to Ubuntu server shortly since it seems to be the best of the distributions for my use. |
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| Posted about 1 year ago I have been using Ubuntu since 2005 and is my favorite. I have also tried Suse and lately Fedora 9 in class I am taking now. But i do not want to repeat what you guys have already said about Ubuntu. I like it for the same reasons as you do. :) |
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| Posted about 1 year ago I began to be interested in Unix/Linux in 2000. I have stared with Slackware. Then I have tried other distributions - RedHat (not enterprise edition), FreeBSD, OpenSuse, Debian, CentOS and Ubuntu. And after all I choose Debian. First of all, because I like the Debian's philosophy - everything for free. Second, which I want to underline, is package management tool - dpkg (apt) :) I think it's the best package management tool, for Unix/Linux OSs. I like Ubuntu too, as Debian based system, but I don't think that it's stable (I have used Ubuntu on VirtualBox, so this view is not the final and can be wrong :) ). Currently I'm using Debian etch and as Desktop and as Server OS. Also I have done clustering on Debian and it's working very well :) I think one of the important thing that Linux kernel developers should solve for users, it is color depth ( 32 bpp ). I think the non expert users that want to start use Linux should start with Ubuntu. |
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| Posted 11 months ago Until a month or so ago, I was strictly Windows (though not real happy about it). Finally two weeks ago I started playing with Ubuntu 8.10 and setup a desktop with it. Totally impressed I've dove in completely and now only using Ubuntu on my personnal equipment and recommending it to my following of clients. Still working on setting up the Server edition but hope to have a webserver setup in a week or so (time permits). I'm reading about the other versions, and have played a small amount with Sus and RedHat but found them not as compatable and friendly. Since most of what I will be working with is setting up users with operating systems and networks that need as little tweeking as possible I'm pretty sure that Ubuntu will be the way to go. I'm totally open to suggestion if anyone has them. I'm still looking at how the Desktop version will function as far as runing sound equipment. So far looks good. In the work environment we will be looking at ESX VMware which I understand is linux based. |
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| Posted 6 months ago I’ve used Fedora from Fedoracore 4. Fedora is now coming up on version 11. It’s a version of redhat. It has lots of option during loading and for me is easy to use. I also use Devil Linux as a file server. It’s a live CD. You can also configure it for a lot of other tasks. |
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| Posted 6 months ago It's been a few years, but I decided to start playing with Linux again and relearning the system. I used to run Red Hat and Mandrake, and played around a bit with Suse. I went back to using Windows because of hardware issues. It was easier to deal with them. Recently I decided to take an old Pentium 3 laptop that I've had for years and clean it up. Windows XP ran like a dog on it. I tried installing Ubuntu on it, but the installer kept giving me a segmentation fault error when it started the install. I tried to install Slackware on it, but the Slackware install I have is on DVD and the laptop won't boot from a DVD. Finally, I installed the Debian Net install and it worked perfectly. It recognized all of the hardware on the laptop and installed with no problems (just a very long install process!) I've set up Ubuntu and Slackware as virtual machines using VirtualBox. Of those two, I prefer the Slackware install. Since I am just getting back into Linux, I will probably have a lot of questions. |
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| Posted 3 months ago I was introduced to Linux in 2006 in my Vo-tech class. A friend had a Ubuntu Live cd and we fiddled around with it when we had free time. I enjoyed it. Since then I've tried several distro's, but the one I've enjoyed the most has been Fedora. It's gui frendly as well as command line. The problem I have with Ubuntu is that I can't get controll when I want controll. When I couldn't do an up down of an interface even with sudo in the shell I got a bit PO'ed at the thing and wiped it. I have enjoyed Fedora for it's wide support and documentation. I'm still more of a beginer but I'm learning quick. |
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| Posted 3 months ago My Favorite Flavor is UBUNTU |
