Whats your favorite version of linux? Tell why you like it and where you can find it.
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Whats your favorite version of linux? Tell why you like it and where you can find it.
Slack - http://www.slackware.com
My favorite distro has to be SuSE thanks to the helpful words of LoggOff. SuSE ships with just about anything you can want, from Ham Radio programs to John the Ripper, its on the SuSE disks. The YaST2 installer is probably one of the nicest installers I've seen. You can find live evaluations at Linux ISO or you can buy it at the SuSE website
my favourite is slackware simply because that is what my friends at school used and so that is what i started using .. i have used mandrake and others like red hat but i am just used to the look and feel of slackware now ...
ps i hate the loader and the install procedure for mandrake 8.1 (??)
I am downloading the 3rd CD of RH 8.0 right now. I have been using Mandrake 9.0. After I run RH for a while, I am going to try something a little more "advanced", like Slack or Debian. I want to get a job working with Linux, so I know I'll have to know RH, since it seems to be the most prevalent in business, but I want to get to know as many distros as I can...
I have pretty much completed the switch from Windoze to Linux, and I've always liked Red Hat. I got Red Hat 8 a day after its official release and have been using it ever since. I like the feel of Red Hat, the new Bluecurve is nice as well. The only thing I didn't like about this new distro is that it does not ship with MP3 support, but a quick download and rpm install and your on your way again. Fast, stable, easy to use, and flexible, I choose Red Hat all the way!
You can get it at http://www.redhat.com/ or http://linuxiso.org/
Rock on Linux!
Hi,
Just installed RH8 a few days ago, and I like allthough its a little slow at this time. For this I'm testing a few options I had from AO-colleagues. But for the rest it's a nice OS.
Once I'm a little more experienced I'd like to try Slackware. I'm hearing such good things of that one. The only thing that bothers me is that I need to have win xp tweaked up somewhere, for my girlfriend or profesionally.
Greetz,
I currently use RedHat7.3 which is a pretty nifty distro in terms of speed running on a not so good system. Ive tried RedHat 8 but found that it uses quite alot of resources. So my advice to you would be to just pick a distro and install only what you think you will need as there are tons of packages that are included with these distros that, most of the time, are not needed, and can compromise your systems security!
Id also recommend getting a good linux book to guide you through the filesystem and various commands for operating from a command line. I use the RedHat 7.3 Bible which is very good!
So good luck!
Cheers
i use Suse Linux 8.1 professional, bought and proudly paid for, iv used red hat but i dont honestly like it that much, its to popular around here for me, and iv used K12 which is red hat based, iv used mandrake which is ok, but nothin compared to Suse, and yea as the other member said it comes with ham radio stuff, it comes with a buncha games, it comes with a nice firewall, it comes with scientific tools, tools to look threw the sola system, and if you have kids Suse Linux 8.1 professional has tux the typing tutor:) and it comes with education tools, all kindsa stuff, and good USB support, it found and installed drivers for my ZIP drive (external) when you buy that heavy ass green box, insideyou get an install and user manual, an admin manual, this made from coardboard thick ass CD holder with 7 CDs and a DVD, a 2003 calander with the history of Suse on it, 4 Suse Linux stickers, a booklet about Suse, and a support booklet. iv also used Free BSD slightly, it was cool, and i have caldera open Linux, not installed right now but iv used and like it.
So far i have used 3 types of linux, and all of them are really very great.
Tom's Linux : An entire linux os on one single floppy. I use this distro more as a rescure system or if i need a minimal system without having to install the entire OS onto a computer.
Devil-Linux: Its a dedicated security enchanced linux for firewalling,routing,proxying,ids. Its an OS that runs of a live cd (no hard disk needed). Their website www.devil-linux.org has very good support online, aswell as the emails that the people on that site provide. Its a minimum system, which only has the essential applications for a secure firewall.
SuSE 7.3, and 8.1 : SuSE linux is so far the best OS i have ever seen. The amounts of applications that are included is awesome. The support on their website is awesome too. Lemme just list a few examples of the use possible with SuSE linux.
Excellent GUIs, office applications, games, graphic and network utils, security utils, servers from apache, bind9,proftpd, wusftpd,sendmail,postfix,10 diff GUI for xservers, mysql,vmware, and a whole bunch more. The office applications are star office, open office, kde office. For graphics its got GIMP. Its got a bunch of mp3 players, mp3 organizers, virutal drum machines, diff mpeg players. Also, you can always update online (for free) any applications you need, aswell as system updates. Just like gore said, it also comes with very good written books on the applications, aswell as all the basic OS information needed to get you started and online. The new YAST2 is really helpful for installations, and system maintainance (good GUI). Its very stable and its also a good distro for more advanced linux users.
Of course i have not listed everything that comes along, like gore said....its 7 cds full of "Stuff". The only thing i am missing from this distro is a dvd player, and an mp3 encoder, but they can be found on freshmeat.net. Also the hardware support on SuSE is huge. Many cdr, dr-rw, scanners, printers, modems, isdn cards, pcmcia cards, network cards etc....
A very good distro indeed.
Cheers.
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Hey gore ;) SuSE should make us an offer for the advertisement we are making for em.
Well, I just bought my first version of Linux. . I went for SuSE 8.1. And Im going to install it tonight on a dedicated box. Wish me luck!
Mine would be the one I learned the most from. Slackware based on the 1.4 Kernel
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Debian, www.debian.org
I'm a toss up between RedHat and OpenLinux
RED HAT u can get it at www.redhat.com
I started with RH, but didn't spend a whole lot of time on it before switching to Slack. I've never tried any other distros, but I'm very happy with the capabilities of Slackware and the challenge of learning it. And there have been times where I've almost literally pulled my hair out trying to do something that was completely simple. Now I'm getting that stuff down and learning more complex things and being an avid windows user I've begun to see why people choose linux not only for the security aspect, but the extreme flexibility and customization. And I've found all of that in Slack. :) http://www.slackware.com
Uhm.....i wanna take back some stuff i mention on my last post in this thread.
I just tossed my suse 8.1 out the window. Im going to stick with suse 7.3
8.1 is not for linux lovers at all. I went nuts with it today. There so many packages that are missing compared to 7.3
So my opinion now is that suse 8.1 is nice for absolute linux newbies, its got its gui and bla.
So its suse 7.3 thats the best os ive ever used so far :cool:
Cheers everyone :)
gentoo
Debian, the only PURE distro
I was an RH fan until they started to turn to sh*t around RH7.. then I moved to mandrake which had been crappy but when RH went down hill, mandrake managed to turn it around. It was like they had traded places.