Linux flavours out there

[ettubrute]

Maybe one of the mods could turn this into a poll...

What flavour of Linux are you currently using?

I'm still using SuSe 7 Enterprize. Have been up and running extremely stable for years now...

Using the box primarily as a firewall/router/fileserver. Also playground for mySQL and PHP development. What do you do with yours?

 

[noswal]

As a newcomer to linux world I am happy with ubuntu, at the moment I see no need to change.

 

[chris54]

Presently dabbling with Ubuntu Dapper Drake (flight-6) and doing daily updates. OS in evolution

Triple booting with XP, Ubuntu Breezy and Dapper.

Have you seen this XGL demo (~58MB)?

http://www.freedesktop.org/~davidr/xgl-demo1.xvid.avi

found on this site
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_XGL#Cards_found_to_be_supported

 

[andres101]

i started off with gentoo; haven't found a reason to try something else since.

 

[sparklehorse]

Yeah, been using gentoo for... a long time
But as soon as I can sort out my free space problems, I want to try ubuntu as well. The package management system looks a lot like portage.

In the end it's all the same programs

 

[andres101]

i think ubuntu uses apt-get from debian (which is what it is based on).

 

[nic777]

I'm using Debian, with Kubuntu on a spare partition.

A poll will be great to see what everyone is using.

 

[redarrow]

I use Fedora Core, currently using FC4.
I'll update to FC5 as soon as they put it on the "Freedom Toaster"

 

[thisgeek]

I like Fedora as well, currently using core 4. I'll update to FC5 at some stage too.

 

[w1z4rd]

gentooooooooooooo! for dekstops
fedora for e.e servers

 

[swordfish1]

I use Fedora core 4, it is ok, but the GUI tools suck, but which linux doesn't suck in that respect ...

 

[sparklehorse]

What gui tools are you referring to?

 

[thisgeek]

gui? Who needs gui?

A Linux geek needs no gui!

 

[LandyMan]

We are running Suse (9 I think) on our firewall/proxy
Ubuntu/XP on my HP notebook
Redhat/Win2000 on my ShuttleXPC print/file server at home

 

[Moederloos]

RHEL for my server

 

[web]

Suse 9.3 Pro except my games machines

 

[b3dlam]

Gentoo on Internet gateway with no WindowManager
Gentoo on Desktop PC with Fluxbox as WindowManager

Gentoo FTW

 

[jjtoymachine]

im using Kubuntu..its ubuntu that uses KDE wow!!

 

[bb_matt]

Bored of Linux on the desktop, I've been a dabbler for 6 years, but for the last 6 months, haven't bothered - there's just not enuff apps for it, or rather, the apps I need - dreamweaver, photoshop, fireworks and a host of other brilliant bits of software have no robust mature linux equivs.

As far as what flavour for server, it doesn't matter one little bit.

Linux is the kernel, what you put on top of that makes the difference.

If your doing web server stuff, it really doesn't matter a fig what your using - it's all down to Apache/PHP/Perl/MySQL or whatever you wish to use.

The absolute best for a dev environment would be a completely slimmed down distribution - something like Slackware, or better still, Arch.

Engarde Linux is an option for super security.

At the office, I develop on windows with PHP/MySQL/Apache installed simply because it's just so much easier to have a closed environment while testing/developing.

My company only uses Linux servers and my own hosting is Linux based - a matter of cost more than anything else.

So yeah, it really doesn't matter what flavour you use right now, as Desktop Linux STILL hasn't made the grade for most purposes, but that's my opinion - at the office, I'm the only windows user, everyone else is Mac based...

Hmm, interesting that

 

[ettubrute]

Quite agree with you bb_matt. I was just curious to see what distro's are used in SA. I know in NL it was basically only SuSE and Redhat, with very little else...