What do you think is the best distro?

[Dark Cobra]

I might need to get rid of redhat if I can't get internet on it...

[phazeman]

What exactly is the question of yours ?????

[Derango]

Ask 5 different people on this forum and you'll likley get at least 4 different answers. The best distro is the distro that you feel comftorable using. Thers a NHF on distros here: http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/distros/distronhf.html

It has a nice little roundup of the availible distros, and their strenghts and weaknesses.

Also, run a forum search on this topic, as it has been discussed very, very often in the past.

[xhadow]

So?
You think that change to other distro will solve that internet problems?
All distros are same, theyr all Linux!!
I suggest you to configure your RedHat, read documentations, browse the net (use Windows if your Linux cant get internet) to find the answer.
If you solve it, you know whats wrong, whats happening in there
then you may think to change to other distro, and find which distro suits you

[xhadow]

c'mon guys, just stop this distro war
just use whatever distro that suits you, and that would be the best distro!
a BEST distro for someone is not a BEST distro for everyone

[Okie]

quote: c'mon guys, just stop this distro war
just use whatever distro that suits you, and that would be the best distro!
a BEST distro for someone is not a BEST distro for everyone /quote...

i agree completely, the best distro is whatever works best for you, personally i prefer Redhat it is the BEST!!! (to me)

[subnet_rx]

I've got to agree. I use Red Hat 7.1. And I will say this, if you can't get your internet connection working in Mandrake or Red Hat, you probably won't be able to get it working anywhere else.

In short, reinstallation is never the long term answer.

[albertfuller]

Originally posted by Dark Cobra:
<STRONG>I might need to get rid of redhat if I can't get internet on it...</STRONG>
I started out in RedHat 5x, then went to Mandrake 7x and now I am content with SuSE 7.2 -- although I have been reading mouth-watering reviews of Progeny - a debian distro (it is a commercial Debian distro run by the guy who started the debian clan...
I am getting ready to run 2 Linux distros (SuSE and Progeny)
So as to your question... I have to challenge your assumption, why must a Linux user settle for one distro...
And as a follow-up question, maybe for the "Linux Book of Records," who has the most distros on one box and how many?

[Icculus]

honestly .. its all linux ...

[Radar]

Debian

[hugs_to_tux]

the distrobution u choose is actually like a girl choosing a sanitary napkin where she has a plethora ofones to choose but she shud take the one she feels is good :-)

[Syngin]

the distrobution u choose is actually like a girl choosing a sanitary napkin where she has a plethora ofones to choose but she shud take the one she feels is good :-)

Eww. :eek: I'd recommend Red Hat. It seems to be the most widely-used distro but its structure seems to be quite different from other distros. I've also heard great things about Debian too. Try either of these before Napkin 1.0 ;)

[Matches Malone]

rtfm is a good concept, but maybe you might have better overall luck using Mandrake. At least for starters, then once ya understand a bit more about inner workings, you may decide redhat is better later :)

[mangeli]

Originally posted by xhadow:
<STRONG>
All distros are same, theyr all Linux!!
</STRONG>

That is simply not true.

Yes, they all run on the Linux kernel but they are hardly the same.

Mandrake comes with a ton of software (most of which you'll never use or even know it is on your system) and is almost redhat. They've made some changes.

Slackware - Despite the name slackware isn't necessairly for slackers. Its built on the BSD sysinit setup and is very different in the way it operates from redhat. It allows you to use RPM (Redhat Package Manager)s or TGZ (Slackware packages) and is truly the best of the distrobutions (My oppinion)

Debian is again different. It doesn't use rpms, I'm not sure what type of system init files it uses, and it has apt-get. Which I am curious about....

Before you go and say that they're all the same, I suggest you try some of them. Peanut Linux is totally different than Mandrake. The only thing that is the same among the distros is the kernel. After that, its a jungle....

[Dark Ninja]

...well...all I have to say is Windows is the best. Yeah. Wait. What? Oh sh*t. Wrong forum...


:D


Dark Ninja

[paulb]

The first distro I used was Caledra. At the time I knew nothing about Linux, but it was in the bargen bin for $5.00 Canadian (thats like $3.00 American). It was ok but I deleted it because it was too confusing and the screen was bigger than my monitor and I had to scroll with my mouse.

Then after learning PHP I decided to take up Linux again, so I downloaded Corel Linux. This was all around the time that Corel Linux was purchased, which meant that it would no longer (to my knoledge) be supported.

So last Saterday I moved to Red Hat. Red Hat solved most of the problems that I had with the other two distros (like kde, gnome, gimp, sound, ect.)

I LOVE RedHat.

[ferg]

Do the analysis.
I did. Find out what's best for you based on your limited understanding. I did.
RedHat was the best for me.
Try it.

[hugs_to_tux]

Originally posted by paulb:
<STRONG>the screen was bigger than my monitor and I had to scroll with my mouse.

</STRONG>
see the screen problem was noot because of caldera distribution but because the monitor u must have selected.one u provide the correct hori and verti frequencies refresh rates it adjusts fine with the screen.
regds,
saurabh.

[NeoFax]

Actually, In XFree86 you can setup a virtual monitor size. i.e. My monitor can only handle 800*600 but X fools the monitor and I can have a virtual size of 1024*768. It does this by only drwing 800*600 at a time.

Anyhow, Go w/ what works and what fits you best. I am using SuSE 7.1 soon to be 7.3. I have been using Linux since RedHat 5.0. I have used RedHat/Mandrake/SuSE/Debian/Slackware/Peanut/MaxOS/Stormix/Corel/Caldera/FreeBSD/QNX/Solaris/BeOS. As you can see, I have tried alot of different versions of Linux(and not linux) and I have settled w/ SuSE. It does just what I want, Automated for most things, but still capable of Manual.

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