Which Distro? 2008

[Dapper Dan]

Although I also use Slackware, Ubuntu and Fedora, on my personal work computer and my home box I mostly use Crux.

[FunkyRes]

I'm using CentOS 5.1 -

I started back in 98 with MKLinux DR3 (based on RH 5.1) and have pretty much been using RH based distros ever since, though I have played with Debian, SuSE, Mandrake (I guess that's RH based), LFS, etc.

LFS was by far the nicest system to use once I had it built, but keeping it at patch level was a real chore.

I was using Fedora - and I fell in love with Fedora Core 6. I didn't bother with F7. When F8 was released, FC6 reached EOL and Fedora 8 was just a complete nightmarish blunder of a release, IMHO it needed about 3 more months of QA and bug fixes. I'm sure it will be a great system in a few months, but I just got sick of it - and switched to CentOS which won't be EOL any time soon. I can upgrade to CentOS 6/7/whatever when I damn well feel like it.

Anyway - so I voted for RPM.
I'm very familiar with RPM but for me, the package manager is just a tool, not a reason to pick a distro. None of the package managers at this point suck so much they should be avoided, all do a fine job when the user doesn't do something stupid.

[stinkoman]

Slackware for my full 3 days!

[Ogion]

Debian (Lenny and Etch)
Although i tried other distros (such as Arch, i even had a short while a FreeBSD) i always stick with Debian, cause for me it's just the best distro. Besides that it's the best package management system

Ogion

[techieMoe]

At the risk of being redundant (thought I'm sure not everyone has read my article on the subject), I'm using Ubuntu 7.10 64-bit on my laptop.

[Skooma]

I've found myself using Debian based distros more than RPMs, I've never used a source one.

Although my monitor refuses to run Linux and I am stuck with Putty.

[gruven]

I use vanilla Gentoo. I find that I know it best, and it works the best for me. I run ~amd64.

Gentoo may have it's problems, but portage is a great package manager, and I love the choice you have through the various tools and use flags.

[FeestBijtje]

I use Debian Lenny,
Since it has the great package system called "synaptic" I can find the right packages in moments. And ofcourse when I can install some thing by source i will do that.

I installed Debian Lenny from an ubuntu live CD. And configured it costum for my system specs. Its base runs as Gentoo (since base system and gnome are compiled from source). And runs the comfort of Debian Lenny (Testing)

[valan]

I build my own, loosely based on LFS, with some hints from DIY Linux.

[goghie]

OpenSuSE 10.3 on my box, works just fine... was using SuSE Linux 9.3 for a long time earlier...