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As you know Linux comes in meny flavor distributions. What is your flavor choice?
My flavor was RedHat for a long time, but latly it seem that RedHat has become sugar coated like windows. I now use SlackWare. SlackWare is really nice linux distribution. Kinda like RedHat was before they went Co. :eek:
*On a side note im looking for some cool linux wallpaper. If anyone knows of a good linux wallpaper site please post a link in your reply.
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I have used SuSE (by the way not Sesu) for more then 3 years and it's still my favourite!
http://www.kde-look.org/Quote:
Just one of many. Also I found another site that had cool papers.If you search the old threads you'll find my podting of Linux wallpaper sites. Here is a pic of mine.
Ah ha.......... Found it. Check out this thread. Plenty of papers including the ones I use with my KDE.
http://www.antionline.com/showthread...hreadid=227803
I am really an advocate of FreeBSD, but I've got a terciary machine that is running slackware. I had tried other distros, Mandrake, RH, SuSE, Debian, Corel, Devil Linux, and a few others.. All in all I found that if I had to use Linux, slackware was about the best for my needs.
I am really an advocate of FreeBSD, but I've got a terciary machine that is running slackware. I had tried other distros, Mandrake, RH, SuSE, Debian, Corel, Devil Linux, and a few others.. All in all I found that if I had to use Linux, slackware was about the best for my needs.
i like mandrake....redhat just doesn't "feel right".....i have no other excuse then that.
my goal for the summer was to check out slackware, but i just recently (this weekend) got freebsd, and i love it. maybe i won't get around to slackware afterall.
I use Suse 7.2 and have had no complaints so far, and at £50 for the full professional edition (7 CDs/ 1 DVD) it's far better value for money than the other distros I've seen. Suse also seem keen to constantly update their products, which is another good sign. :)
Mandrake and RedHat all the way...
I've been using Redhat since pre-5 release and I'm having to agree that they're becoming more corporate with every day that goes by. I'm now looking into Turbolinux or Slackware but I was really hoping that Storm Linux would have made it. Bleh...
That has to be the most profound thing I have ever heard on these forums, and the most accurate also. One linux distro isn't better then any other. They all run the same kernal. They can all run the same programs. Etc etc. They are just packaged differently. Some say SuSE is better because it comes with 8 CD's and 42 DVD's (ok, a little exagarated). I can download any of that information from the internet. Some say Slackware is the best because it is most customizable. Download tar-balls instead of RPM's for your Redhat machine, and you have the same thing. About the only dfference in purchasing is that Redhat has some semblance of customer support.Quote:
i like mandrake....redhat just doesn't "feel right".....i have no other excuse then that.
Anyway, its all about what "feels right" to you.
mo matter which distro you use the underlying kernel is still the same(unless you modified it in some way to suit your needs)...so i dont think that opinions like SUSE is a better performer than Red Hat holds any water..again like souleman said various distros will have various packages to offer and that mind make a difference to the over all look and feel...but then these packages could be downloaded....
i am a regular user of Red Hat..
well i have corel linux personally i dont like it cuz it doesnt like my win modem!
Hmm...I guess I'd have to go with RedHat, but I haven't had much experience with all of those.
Just started using mandrake 8.2. like it better than redhat. got dvd and cdrw to work on first try.
never got RH7.2 to even detect cdroms so I had RH7.1 which worked great.
{P²P}Apocalypse kinda convinced me to switch to mandrake
It doesn't like your winmodem I don't blame it. It's a software based modem that was built for "windows kept in mind" and sometimes windows doesn't even like winmodems lol
yea win2k for instance :)...and i am not bvlaming linux i liek it i just dont like it with my pc :)
I have been usin mandrake the last time.
Used Redhat but it "doesnt feel right" .
Gonna d-load mandrake 8.2 and test it.
And when I get my laptop ill run Slackware on it.
love and peace.
i've been using redhat for several years, so far i've stuck to it. just haven't had time or resources to test out the other distros, except for debian, which i had to use for a 486 laptop (because it already had floppy install files ready) which i couldn't install over a network at the time.
and i've tried a few floppy-based linux distros for a short while. quite fun.
regards,
mark.