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 Oct 12 2008, 03:55 AM
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I've had Ubuntu and Fedora on two of my machines for a good 5 months now. Personally, I've become a huge, huge fan of Linux and I don't see myself switching back to Windows or crossing over to the dark side of Mac anytime soon (aside from government computers, of course).
Well, I just picked up Mandriva and it runs even smoother than the other distributions that I have. My mediocre Dell Insprion 6000 now operates like an XPS or Alienware computer, in terms of speed. After a few hours playing around on the terminal, I managed to install Fruity Loops 7 XXL Producer Edition as well as the racing game GRID. Everything runs smoothly. Still, I can't seem to figure out which Linux distro is the best. Each one I've acquired has been better than the one before. For the Linux users, what distros are you running on your machines? What do you personally recommend? edit: KDE is growing on me. I'm still partial to Gnome, but KDE 4.1 looks clean. |
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Nov 13 2008, 01:20 AM
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I am a huge Suse fan. They seem to have a lot of support out of the box. Lately I haven't been using Linux due to being on a Mac. Linux will always hold a special spot to me, with customization alone. I remember spending hours just customizing how my Linux box looked.
Distros I've tried are: Xandros Linspire (Lindows) Ubuntu Kubuntu Damn Small Linux (DSL) Fox Linux (a mac look-a-like) Slackware Fedora Core Suse |
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Nov 13 2008, 11:01 AM
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QUOTE(applejaxkz @ Nov 13 2008, 01:20 AM)  I am a huge Suse fan. Really? I'm a sysadmin for a network of OpenSUSE boxes, and I hate it. |
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fameONE Best Linux Distro Oct 12 2008, 03:55 AM
mipadi At work (I'm an assistant systems administrato... Oct 12 2008, 10:06 AM
fameONE QUOTE(mipadi @ Oct 12 2008, 09:06 AM) At ... Oct 13 2008, 04:09 AM XTC On my old computer I had Mandriva. My new one doe... Oct 12 2008, 11:12 AM fameONE ***UPDATE***
I'm currently still sold on Ubun... Oct 18 2008, 04:43 AM mipadi Yeah. Some details might be different, but overall... Oct 29 2008, 11:24 PM fameONE ^So I found an Debian/Ubuntu based distribution th... Nov 5 2008, 10:50 AM JosephCohen123 QUOTE(fameONE @ Nov 5 2008, 09:50 AM) ^So... Jan 17 2009, 11:17 PM fameONE ^What exactly don't you like about it? I heard... Nov 21 2008, 08:01 AM mipadi QUOTE(fameONE @ Nov 21 2008, 08:01 AM) ^W... Nov 21 2008, 12:06 PM fameONE That's a disappointment. I was considering SUS... Nov 22 2008, 01:16 AM WarMachine gnome-look.org is a pretty good site. it may seem ... Dec 31 2008, 05:07 PM medic When I did web servers, email servers, game server... Jan 2 2009, 12:17 AM WarMachine QUOTE(medic @ Jan 2 2009, 08:17 AM) The g... Jan 2 2009, 01:16 AM mipadi QUOTE(WarMachine @ Jan 2 2009, 01:16 AM) ... Jan 2 2009, 06:40 AM WarMachine QUOTE(mipadi @ Jan 2 2009, 02:40 PM) Wait... Jan 2 2009, 06:54 AM mipadi Definitely check out Hannah Montana Linux: Aug 11 2009, 03:00 PM medic I use Mint and love it. It's based off Ubuntu,... Aug 16 2009, 01:46 AM Buttsex I hate Ubuntu because it babies you, but I hate Mi... Aug 16 2009, 02:07 AM medic QUOTE(Buttsex @ Aug 16 2009, 01:07 AM) I ... Aug 17 2009, 04:26 AM Buttsex sudo apt-get install cockshaker-i386-dev Aug 17 2009, 05:18 PM |
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