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Re: [POLL] Distro of choice

Signius — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 17:31:55 GMT

I voted Redhat but that was a vote for CentOS which you should have included along side Fedora.

I also run Debian and a couple of specialist distro (ie. Firewalls)

Re: [POLL] Distro of choice

murrine — Sun, 20 Apr 2008 15:50:51 GMT

Update: I've been testing Mandriva for a while now, & have been quite impressed. I've now installed it on all my machines as the main OS.

Re: [POLL] Distro of choice

David Nelson — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 11:25:28 GMT

Automatix will be heavily dependent on the version of Ubuntu it's shipped for just by the nature of what it does. Some of it's functionality in Gutsy will be redundant but there will no doubt be a new version developed for it. I will have similar problems with the odd deb I've installed which will conflict with the new distribution so ill most likely need to do a full reinstall over the top of that Windows installation I never use anymore I can't say I've used Suse since the 5.2 version shipped on the PC Plus cover disk back in 1997 which got me into Linux in the first place, even back then though it was out of date! I might give the new version a spin at some point and see how it's doing.

ah memories...

Re: [POLL] Distro of choice

Ken Odlum — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:49:53 GMT

David Nelson:
Well 7.10 isn't released yet so you can't expect perfection. I usually do my dist-upgrade about 2-3 days before launch as it beats the queue and isn't far off the final release barring minor version tweaks.

Hi David

The PC I use is only a spare so I don't depend on it for anything really so took the chance. Most of the software that stopped working was installed through Automatix and as that failed to work also I could not get it off.

I managed to get the second hard drive to mount at boot on Ubuntu but can't yet on Suse but the new click to install in Suse 10.3 works great.

I downloaded the DVD iso which was 4.5Gb and with a busy site took about 4 hours but was well worth it and I will stick with Suse for the foreseeable future.

Unless I wreck it again

Re: [POLL] Distro of choice

David Nelson — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 10:27:46 GMT

Well 7.10 isn't released yet so you can't expect perfection. I usually do my dist-upgrade about 2-3 days before launch as it beats the queue and isn't far off the final release barring minor version tweaks.

Re: [POLL] Distro of choice

Ken Odlum — Mon, 08 Oct 2007 11:56:54 GMT

As a Ubuntu 7.04 to 7.10 upgrade crippled a lot of the software I had installed I thought I would try the new Suse Linux 10.3 in it's place (last version of Suse I tried was 10.1).

So far I really love it.

Re: [POLL] Distro of choice

peterb — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 16:19:51 GMT

Recently upgraded to Fedora Core 6 (From Red Hat 9)! Upgrade not without problems (big jump releases - and significant chanfges with X Server (which is wherethe problems lay) but very impressed with the 2.6 Kernel - FAR more memory efficient, among other things! Good plug and play USB support too.

Re: [POLL] Distro of choice

AndyM77 — Sat, 11 Aug 2007 18:50:11 GMT

Slackware user here, started off on 'Mandrake' (now Mandriva) and went to Slackware 9.0, been using it faithfully since

Re: [POLL] Distro of choice

catcher — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 10:56:30 GMT

Mint (Cassandra) on one box, Mint XFCE on another

Re: [POLL] Distro of choice

Steve Milner — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 12:34:57 GMT

I' new here.

Fedora Core 5/6/7

Mythtv Box running FC5

Home Mail/Web/Network server FC6

Laptop FC7

Steve

Re: [POLL] Distro of choice

Ken Odlum — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 13:59:41 GMT

Ken Odlum:
I have been running Ubuntu on a spare machine for the best part of a year now and just wonder

Why do you have to go right round the houses just to install a software download or update, why not just a setup.exe?
Why do I have to mount drives etc (a second hard drive is a bit of a pain really)?

I have two PC's running XP and I can't even imagine Linux ever being a serious threat to Windows.
I can understand why Linux is so good for a server etc but a desktop machine no.
Maybe it's just that I have used Windows in one form or another for so long now but I do find Linux so unfriendly once I get past just using an application.

Just installed Ubuntu 7.04 and find it much easier to work with.

Just have to sort out why I can't capture mic input using a SB Live card and I am well away.

Re: [POLL] Distro of choice

David Nelson — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 14:43:29 GMT

Community server uses MSN-style emoticon codes rather than common BBCode. Can't say why though, we didn't write it

I tried Beryl recently too on the Fawn but I found it too unstable and completely pointless, I'll save my CPU cycles for when I need them.

Re: [POLL] Distro of choice

ske1fr — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 13:14:33 GMT

One clapped-out old laptop running Xubuntu Dapper Drake.
One old but still serviceable P-3 running Kubuntu Dapper Drake
One Athlon-64 running Kubuntu Feisty Fawn - I tried Beryl but I got bored

Hmm, anyone care to tell me why my bold BBCodes in my sig gets me Andrew [beer] skeifr [/b]? Works fine in other flavours of BBCode fora, works fine in body of post. Apologies for OT.

Edit #57 OK, I got it.

Re: [POLL] Distro of choice

David Nelson — Tue, 08 May 2007 15:02:33 GMT

Finally fixed this by changing to the i386 kernel rather than the generic. I've also managed to get the wireless working somehow, possibly a change between the last beta and the final release versions. Went to reinstall onto a SATA disk which took my luck a bit too far as grub either wouldn't install or my PC wouldn't boot from the on-board SATA RAID, I needed to put a small boot partition on the PATA disk which is annoying.

Re: [POLL] Distro of choice

David Nelson — Tue, 24 Apr 2007 15:25:07 GMT

I can't say I have although since upgrading I've been unable to use the new kernel as it hangs my pc after 10 minutes use - not over impressed but that's life. Hopefully it'll get a fix soon.