What Linux do you run?

Tux said:
Chucked Opensuse 11.1 out the window and installed Mandriva 2009.0 on this box
Awesome. Like it more than Suse. No hassles with packman repos to get mp3s to work or dvds to play...

Fast becoming me favorite distro. Soon as I feel comfortable enough with it going to install it on my other Ubuntu and Suse boxen as well
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:D More people here should try Mandriva instead of pulling up there noses it really is good/
 
MyWorld said:
Once you get used to the Gentoo way of things, you will never be satisfied with other distros, EVER!
:p
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only problem being a system upgrade can take a while at times

chiskop said:
And when did you start the install process? :D
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:D Probably took about 4 hours to get everything right. No doubt I will be making an image of the system.
 
I usually boot a live CD like Knoppix or something and install from within Knoppix, that way I have a working desktop while I wait for the install to finish. All you need is the stage-3 tarball. Untar it, chroot to the untarred environment and fire away with the rest of the install.

That said, it has been years (2006/7) since I last installed Gentoo on my desktop, I really cannot see why you should need to reinstall (unless you wipe your hard drive).
 
Rite now my laptop has Ubuntu 8.10 default WM, and my desktop has Ubuntu 8.10 with Openbox and still learning to customise Openbox inside the comfort of Gnome.

Once I'm confortable with Openbox I'll be installing ArchLinux...(easy verison of Gentoo, they say)
 
Using Arch Linux on home pc. Love it.

Run about 25 servers on Ubuntu 6.06 server edition. Great OS with very few snags. Easy to hit 600+ days uptime on boxes that do not get kernel updates.

Would have upgraded the servers to Ubuntu 8.04 LTS server edition but after a few months of testing it proved to be too unreliable for use in a production environment. Heading to Debian Etch soon.
 
running ubuntu jaunty, debian 4, damn small linux and a few others
 
milomak said:
took the plunge and went with gentoo. it's an awesome experience. very different from the norm. especially the install process which i recently completed
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fyi, local mirrors:
fetch: http://gentoo.mirror.ac.za/
rsync: rsync://gentoo.is.co.za/gentoo-portage

MyWorld said:
Once you get used to the Gentoo way of things, you will never be satisfied with other distros, EVER!
:p
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I regularly try other distro's, but I get frustrated quite quickly.

milomak said:
Probably took about 4 hours to get everything right. No doubt I will be making an image of the system.
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good idea, but it will probably be out of date in a month or two. it gets easier with every reinstall through :p

you could also just backup your changes...

nice thing about gentoo is that portage knows about every file on your system (that it installed). for instance, to see which files have changed since installation:
equery l | equery k | grep '!!!'
 
I have used almost all the major distros out there.

- Slackware
- Redhat
- Fedora Core
- Suse
- Centos
- Debian
- Ubuntu and variants
- Freebsd (not linux but hey its cool)
- Some random stuff I can't remember

Then a few years ago I started with Gentoo, stuck to it for a very long time but got really upset when I had to do work but wait for updates and compiles ect. No other distro could get close to it, it was a favourite of mine for a long time.

That is when I found Archlinux. At first it was not exactly Gentoo but very close to it. After 2 months with Arch as my only distro on my pc at work I found a new distro that is everything I wanted. So now its Arch on the laptop, pc at work, pc at home and even some of the servers. I found it to be a lot less troublesome than most binary distros and source based distros.

Personally I feel at home on any distro I touch and can do everything in all of them, but my preference became permanent to Achlinux.

Most servers though still run on Centos as it work very closely the same as Redhat Enterprise Linux.
 
Archlinux.

After nearly 3 years of Gentoo it's the closest thing to the perfect distro I've always had in mind.
I've also used Redhat,Debian,Slackware before Gentoo.

Archlinux is the best, and even though it's my opinion I'm probably right too. :P
 
With a week to go before the launch of fedora 11, I finally finished my new server with Fedora 10. It used to be RH then became fedora core 2, then core 4 and only now it became Fedora 10.

I used Suse a lot at work, as well as tried Ubuntu since everyone keeps going on about it. But I always went back to Fedora.
 
Ubuntu 7.10 -> 8.04 -> 8.10 -> 9.04

Now dual-booting between Kubuntu and Ubuntu to compare the two. So far still prefer the Gnome offering.

Itching to try FC, Mandriva 2009 and mebbe Archlinux sometime
 
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