POLL: Which distro do you use?

[daacosta]

Haha. Perhaps I should explain that. I use Mac OS X for everyday things, and when I do use Linux, I generally want something I can install quickly in my Parallels VM, fire up and do something with it (like figuring out what menu option a user needs to choose to tweak something on Gnome or whatnot). For that purpose, Ubuntu works.

I've been harsh on Ubuntu in the past (as I alluded to earlier) but I don't hold grudges from one release to the next. Believe it or not, if Slackware suddenly changed their entire philosophy into something I'd use, I wouldn't write such scathing rants about it. Once a distribution becomes useful for me, I no longer loathe it.

I have suggested several crappy OSes for you to review Sylable and Nexenta and... Oh well! I opened distrowatch today to find a distro called Topologilinux which is based on Slackware so I wont even suggest reviewing... I was almost tempted to try it but I got scared...

[tommytabib]

I voted ubuntu, but im only using it because my mandriva has all gorn haywire on me.

In the next few weeks/months though i intend to download several other versions until i find my personal favourite, but for now its ubuntu.

[techieMoe]

I have suggested several crappy OSes for you to review Sylable and Nexenta and... Oh well!

...And I thank you for doing so. Without seriously crappy OSes, my site wouldn't be nearly as entertaining for me or anyone else. I still chuckle when I read rants for things like aLinux.

[oz]

I'm surprised that Debian users have taken the lead (as of this post), and was thinking that Ubuntu would probably score the most users. The low number of RedHat/Fedora users is a bit surprising, too.

Of course, there's still quite a bit of the year remaining for votes to be counted, so maybe the numbers will swing one way or the other before the year is out.

[JordanII]

I use Puppy Linux and like it a lot. I would love to get Debian, Slackware, or SuSE on my computer but they will not install on my HD. I have used Knoppix but am not very familiar with it (I like it though). I would suggest not using Knoppix for your main distro because it is a live CD (you might be able to install it to the HD but I don't think so).

~Jordan

[techieMoe]

I would suggest not using Knoppix for your main distro because it is a live CD (you might be able to install it to the HD but I don't think so).

~Jordan

You most certainly can install Knoppix on your harddrive, and it looks exactly as it does on the CD; it just runs a lot faster.

[oz]

Yeah, just a few years back, I ran Knoppix as my default Linux and it was installed on the HD. It worked really well too, but it sometimes had problems with updates. Being a fan of lighterweight distros, I eventually dumped it for something else.

I love Knoppix as a live CD, though.

[apoorv_khurasia]

Looks like Redhat needs to see this and choose their next steps carefully (which should translate to "users are not test creatures")

[JordanII]

You most certainly can install Knoppix on your harddrive, and it looks exactly as it does on the CD; it just runs a lot faster.

Really! I've bean wanting to do that but I did not think it was possible. How do you do it?

[JordanII]

Ignore what I said a while ago about Puppy. I have switched over to Ubuntu and it totally ROCKS! If I were you I would go with Ubuntu.

~Jordan