What distro do you run?

[LoRdMaUL]

Just out of curiosity...what disto do you guys run? I currently run Red Hat 7 on my machine at home and 6.2 at work.

[FoBoT]

i am using red hat 7 on my server and suse 7 on my desktop and Coyote Linux (http://www.coyotelinux.com) on my firewall/gateway

have a nice day! :)

hey, wasn't elvis born in Tupelo??

[ 07 February 2001: Message edited by: FoBoT ]

[debiandude]

I am using Debian testing on my desktop at home and on my server Debain Potato.

[LoRdMaUL]

Yes....Da King was born here...not that I even like his music...but anyway...heh.. :)

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by LoRdMaUL:
not that I even like his music...but anyway...heh.. :)

me neither, but my wife :rolleyes: watches all those old elvis movies on AMC :rolleyes:

i drove through tupelo in the summer of 1987 going from florida to idaho

just to stay "on-topic" (don't want the forum police to get me :D ) , i am going to change my desktop linux to suse 7.1 when it comes out and build another server with debian (so i will actually learn something ;) ) as soon as i get my hardware musical chairs worked out

[LoRdMaUL]

I have the ISOs of the beta of the new redhat release coming out and I will try them out and see how its does. It is supposed to have kernel 2.4 in it. I am curious to see if it will see my QuickCam Express USB cam and other lil things as well.

[bdg1983]

I'm using SuSE 7 on my machine at home.

[treatment]

Guys,

I'm moving this discussion to the General-Linux Question forum. mmmkay?

[ph34r]

:cool: Slackware :cool:
:cool: Linux From Scratch (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org) :cool:

[r@nd0m @cce$]

Here's my favorite:


http://www.suse.com/us/images/suse71_front.gif

[Lend273]

I have run the following distros:
1.Redhat 7......Not bad but I really didnt like RPM's.
2. Slackware 7.0 - just could not get it configured with my hardware properly. I got frustrated with it pretty quick.
3. SuSe 7.0 - liked it but wanted to try Debian.
4. Libranet Debian - very nice......like apt-get. Easy to configure....great support.
5. Storm Linux 2000 - Best yet...... easy to configure, full featured, lots of apps. Bad news is it looks like Storm has gone belly up. But I'll stick with it cuz I like it. And it's debian so I'm sure I can keep it up to date. I'm still hoping Storm gets itself straightened out. But they still haven't replied to an email I sent to them 3 days ago......so it doesn't look good. My 2nd choice would be Libranet as I like debian
best.

Just my 2 cents.

Len

[mstich]

slackware

[freaker]

slackware all the way.... ----->


freaker :cool:

[Cobol_Stephy]

:cool: Caldera :cool:

[SubPar]

Originally posted by ph34r:
:cool: Linux From Scratch (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org) :cool:


You and me both - it's the ultimate answer to the distro wars.

[Ripley]

Originally posted by SubPar:

You and me both - it's the ultimate answer to the distro wars.

Ditto.

:cool: Linux from Scratch (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/) :cool:

[PLBlaze]

Originally posted by ph34r:
:cool: Slackware :cool:
:cool: Linux From Scratch (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org) :cool:

I'll second that :D

[LoRdMaUL]

wow...I finally post something that gets more than 2 responses...hehe.. :D

[Avatar]

Vector Linux 1.8 on my gaming box
Whatever hits my desk on my test system

[ 08 February 2001: Message edited by: Avatar ]

[kel]

RedHat 7.0
I'm pretty happy with it. I haven't tried any other distros though so I'm actually interested in what people have to say too. :)

[slayer17]

Currently I am running RedHat 'fisher' beta with the 2.4 kernel, and Drake 7.2 on my other workstation. I work as a unix admin at a university so I get to play with the beta in a production enviroment and I must say the the fisher beta is one bad *** mother!!!

[X_Entity]

Debian testing on main box and Debian potato on the server.

At work I don't use Linux but we have a nice selection of operating systems :-

Solaris
RSX
Gardian
Monitor
hp-ux
AIX

[groundzero]

Work:
Mandrake 7.2 (firewall)
Mandrake 7.2 (webserver)
Win95/98 (work stations)

Home:
Mandrake 7.2 (firewall/webserver/email)
RH 6.2 / Win98 (My PC)
Mandrake 7.0 / Win98 (Roomates PC)
Looking to go Slack soon though for Email/Webserver
:D

[Tiger]

Debian potato, w/Afterstep.

[ 08 February 2001: Message edited by: Tiger ]

[milanuk]

Firewall: FreeSCO 0.27 (cuz I'm lazy)
Desktop#1: KRUD 2001-01-02 (RH7+errata+goodies_
Desktop#2: KRUD 2001-01-02
Laptop: Dual-boot Win98 + whatever I've feeling like playing w/. Currently, KRUD, but perhaps SuSE 7.1, after it gets shook down a bit.

Monte

[ 08 February 2001: Message edited by: milanuk ]

[Devrdander]

Originally posted by ph34r:
:cool: Slackware :cool:
:cool: Linux From Scratch (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org) :cool:

MMmmmm hmm... Thats good stuff ;-)

[wormwood]

!! Trustix !!
THE server distro .. www.trustix.net (http://www.trustix.net)
it doesnt come with everything u dont need on a server .. like X-windows, kde ++
secure, because almost nothing is running by default ... (even if u did install it)

[GNU/br0wni3]

Redhat 7.0

Installing couldn't have been smoother.
It runs fine.
Im a total newbie, and i kinda understand it/ can manage it. I think thats cool. :D

Not planning on changing it for the moment... maybe when i get more experienced i'll look for alternatives.

br0wni3

[Gweedo]

:cool: Suse 7.0 :cool: and upgrading soon to :D Suse 7.1 :D

[scott_R]

I started with RH 5.2, then 6.1. Then I switched to caldera for about a day, then to Mandrake 7.1, which I'm using now. My next distro will be SuSE though, just to see if it's as good as I've heard. After that, I'll probably go for debian, just to make sure I'm not tied into a certain distro company.

[teeitup]

Department file servers
Debian, 1 slink, 1 woody

Laptop -> Debian!

I would like to try the Linux from scratch path someday. Time and priorities always get in the way.

[Domin]

Mandrake 7.0 (Couldn't get 7.2 or Redhat 7 to work on my new computer :()

[Letalis]

:cool: Linux From Scratch :cool:
and :cool: Slackware :cool: but slack is soon leaving since LFS rule so extremely hard.

[Morph]

Drake 7.2 INstalled first time on my dreaded intel i810. I couldnt believe it. I virtually had to do NO configuration. My flatmates said it is easier to download and install than their WINDOW$ 2000 ME 98.

I used to run RH6.1 but it got to be a pain. I coudl never get licq to work.

As soon as I got Drake installed I was able to get DIVX working first time with no probs :D :D

[Crankshooter]

Ran Redhat for a couple of months, got bored, now its been Slackware all the way... it r0x.

[witman]

:cool:Redhat :cool:

[thor4linux]

I started with REDHAT 6.0. then i found Drake 7.0 and 7.1. I got a free cd with RH 7.0 and KDE 2.0. tried to install KDE 2.0 on my darake 7.1 system, wouldn't work. to many failed dependacies. so i installed RH 7.0. Got KDE 2.0 to work but not much else, couldn't even get kppp to work or the RH ppp manager. So, i'm back at Drake 7.1 and waitng for SuSe 7.1 to come out. after that i'm going to try slack and debian.

[LoRdMaUL]

well I attempted to install Red Hat "Fisher" last nite and had all kind of "fun"....After I burned the ISOs to cd-rom....I proceeded to make a boot disk and then slapped the disk in my machine and rebooted....oddly enough it didn't even attempt to boot off the disk so I figured the disk was bad so I made another one. Same thing happened. So i tried booting off the cd and it did boot...and I entered "text" to go into the text mode setup and then the screen turned solid blue and then it said it was shutting down due to an Anaconda error....I rebooted again and this time it wouldn't even boot off the cd...grrrrrrrr...guess I will wait for the official release or something.... :mad:

[Big_daddy]

Drake 7.2 in the house

[LoRdMaUL]

I tried Mandrake 7.2 but I never could get it find a modem ...I can't see the point of having it if I couldn't get online...so I got rid of it.... :confused:

[element-x]

:cool: Slackware :cool:

but I have gone through, Mandrake, Redhat, SuSE, and Debian. (also FreeBSD, but :shrugs: I'm just not quite ready for it yet)

[whiterabbit]

RedHat 6.2 (Laptop)
VALinux RedHat 7.0.1 (Workstation - Work)
RedHat Fisher 'Beta' (Test Enviroment - Work)
Slackware (NAT/Firewall - Work)
RedHat 6.0 (DB Server for Lucent Definity Sys - Work)

I have never understood the distro wars, haven't we learned anything from the history of Unix since it's inception?

[Tyr-7BE]

I'm running Mandrake 7.2, and it's great 'cause I'm a newbie...I'm gaining experience and thinking of moving to either RH 7, or SuSE 7.1 (shipping soon :D ). Once I get a) Good enough, b) A new hd (looking at a 60-gig :cool: ), I'll try Debian and Slack, as they seem to be the distro of choice for many users who know what they're doing. Also gonna try FreeBSD and BeOS :)
Question: What's SuSE like? Strengths? Weaknesses? Recommended user level? I know that it has support for those damned RPMs, but it's not a native-deal like with RH and Drake.

[Lonely Cat]

Mandrake 7.2, :)

I tried RH7.0, not as good as Mandrake.

Now I don't want to upgrade with the whole distribution but some packages. So, it doesn't matter which distro for me, :)

[Lonely Cat]

Mandrake 7.2, :)

I tried RH7.0, not as good as Mandrake.

Now I don't want to upgrade with the whole distribution but some packages. So, it doesn't matter which distro for me, :)

[wbd]

Peanut 8.3 (http://www.ibiblio.org/peanut/)or Potato, depending on which one has Pissed me off this week.... (Peanut rules at the moment) & Linux From Scratch.

[legaviu]

Mandrake 7.2 :)
JBLinux :)
Tiny Linux :)
muLinux :)
Peanuts :)
Conectiva :rolleyes: (need to try it more, but easy)


Used before, but left them:

Red Hat :(
Caldera :(

For server installation, Mandrake is best, though JBLinux or Peanuts are best for standalone workstations, and faster too.

TinyLinux is based on slackware and can be used on a 486 with 8Mb and 120Mb, and though its nice and easy, you need a lot of help to get this running under X with network support.

MuLinux works great with 386 and 486 boxes with at least 4Mb RAM.

Have tried Caldera, the only great thing I like about it, is that it has two dos emmulators that can con in handy ocassionally, though emudos is out there.

RedHat, has great documentation, but prefer Mandrake that is based on RH and has better support through command line or GUI interface, that allows you to reconfigure your Linux Box. Conectiva is a good option as well.

Downloading Slack, Suse, Stampede now.

[ 10 February 2001: Message edited by: legaviu ]

[ 10 February 2001: Message edited by: legaviu ]

[Getta48]

I've been using Linux more than a year now. I started with BestLinux 5.3 (Biggest/most popular/known distro in Finland), then BestLinux 2000-R1, R-2 and now with ABIT BE6-2 v1.2 board Gentus Linux. There has also been RedHats, like 6.1,6.2 and 7.0 beta witch by the way sucks x1000. And also i have tried Corel Linux 1.0 beta and 1.0 final, and both of them suck x10 000! With current mb, Gentus is definitely the best for me.

[bisk]

I have tried most distributions , redhat , caldera, debian , mandrake , turbolinux , corel , suse. Sure most of them work and are pretty but the one distribution I keep coming back to is Slackware.
I have 2 slack boxes , and would not have it any other way.