How many linux distros have you tried?

[oldcpu]

I used Red Hat for a few years (1998 to 2001). I then switched to SuSE and I have been using it ever since.

On occasion I will use the Knoppix Live CD (and now live DVD).

I've played around with the Live CD's for most distributions, but I don't consider that playing around (for a few hours) meets the criteria for acatually trying a distribution. I think one has to use a distribution for at least a couple of months, before it meets the criteria.

Hence I filled in only "3" on the poll.

[flcpge]

I've used three as my main distro.

First tried Mandrake 9.1 for almost a year. Currently I use both Debian for three years and Gentoo for eight to nine months.

The two other distros I barely used.

I played with Knoppix for less than a week after Mandrake. And played with Ubuntu when it first came out, also less than a week. Although I always have a copy of both of them on CD.

[ezra]

About 26 if you count each derivative distro as one:

SUSE
Slackware
Red Hat
Mandrake (currently using 2005 LE)
Ubuntu (on another box)
Caldera
Mepis
Slax
Dynebolic
Puppy
Knoppix
PCLinuxOS
Vector
CentOS
K12LTSP
Yoper
Symphony
Foresight
Scientific
BLAG
KateOS
Fox Desktop
Mediainlinux
rPath
Lorma
QiLinux

Plus FreeBSD, Solaris, Unixware, and NextStep 3.3 for Intel

[genesus]

Currently Running: Fedora Core 4, OpenBSD, Gentoo stage 1

Have Tried: Slackware 10, 10.1; FC1,3; RedHat 7,9; SuSE 9.3; Debian Sarge, Etch; Knoppix and about 20 varieties; Puppy; DSL; FreeBSD; NetBSD; PCBSD, Arch, Parsix...and some others I'm sure...

so counting all of the Knoppix varieties as one, my total number is around 20 or so...hehe, I have a spare partition and I love trying new ones out...