Distros you can't get away from

[seohonolulu]

It happens to the best of us... you go out once a year testing out new distros and after some fail to meet the challenge, you keep reinstalling the same one(s) until you get the urge to venture again.

So which distros have you wrapped around their finger time and time again?

My guilty list:

*PCLinuxOS (2007 & mini-me)
*openSUSE
*Poseidon Linux 64bit

[bob]

Fedora (of course)
Mint
Vector
Debian

[JN4OldSchool]

Gentoo. I love it, and I finally have a finished install that I am happy with, but it just cannot take the place of Mint or Fedora for me. I am currently sold on Mint.

[seohonolulu]

Originally Posted by JN4OldSchool

Gentoo. I love it, and I finally have a finished install that I am happy with, but it just cannot take the place of Mint or Fedora for me. I am currently sold on Mint.

I just tried out Sabayon Lite Four OH! (or whatever it is called) and it was my first foray into a gentoo based system. I was really digging it until my first boot and every boot afterwards. No matter what I did, it would see my wired net connection and give it limited access. Probably not a gentoo issue, but man it was frustrating.

Mint has been getting some pretty good buzz lately I've noticed... think I got a few dozen live cd's with their newest release floating somewhere around here LOL...

[RupertPupkin]

My list:

1. Fedora

[seohonolulu]

Originally Posted by RupertPupkin

My list:

1. Fedora

Easy enough lol

[sonoran]

1. Fedora
2. Arch

I keep my Arch rolling-release installation up to date so I will have
something usable to fall back on while I tweak the latest new-model
Fedora into stability.

Arch updates can indeed break things, but not with the same severity
as a new Fedora that won't boot or scrambles the display. I also like
the Arch Build System for 3rd party stuff.

3. Linux From Scratch as soon as they release the 64-bit version. I
found it a great way to learn the innards of GNU/Linux when I built
the 32-bit a few years ago. There is something aesthetically
satisfying about having a Pure Tool Chain. (geek porno, perhaps?)

Windows 3.11

Wayne

[metaltux]

for me it's
1- Fedora
2- Debian
3- Ubuntu

Hehe

fedora

[metaltux]

for me it's
1- Fedora
2- Debian
3- Ubuntu

Hehe

[PabloTwo]

For me it's:
1) Fedora
2) Fedora
3) Fedora

...oh, wait.. I seem to spinning my wheels in the sand and going nowhere. Maybe I need a 'push'.

[JN4OldSchool]

Originally Posted by PabloTwo

For me it's:
1) Fedora
2) Fedora
3) Fedora

...oh, wait.. I seem to spinning my wheels in the sand and going nowhere. Maybe I need a 'push'.

Judging from one of your earlier posts today I seriously wonder why you are spinning? F8? It was a good un, but what now? I almost responded to that post earlier, but I surely do not know anything that you dont. I am certain you can find a more pure oldschool distro though.

[aleph]

Originally Posted by sonoran

1. Fedora
2. Arch

This is exactly my choice too. I use Fedora as my primary OS. I've already been used to The Fedora Way and I can't get away from it. Maybe I'll give the new Debian 5 a try after it comes out tomorrow (IIRC) but I know I'll stick with Fedora.

I use Arch because it's clean, concise and highly modularized. I run Arch inside a QEMU virtual machine, where I can hack it without worrying about frying my primary OS. (Some of the stuff I do with it are potentially dangerous e.g. exploiting local vulnerabilities...)

Originally Posted by sonoran

3. Linux From Scratch as soon as they release the 64-bit version. I
found it a great way to learn the innards of GNU/Linux when I built
the 32-bit a few years ago. There is something aesthetically
satisfying about having a Pure Tool Chain. (geek porno, perhaps?)

Haven't tried that yet, but it looks promising. I think I'll give it a try when/if I upgrade my hardware.

[PabloTwo]

@JN4- not to derail this thread and it's topic, but... my post here was, as a few others, tongue-in-cheek and just having/poking fun. In regards to my 'other' post you refer to, that was probably my first post on this forum, in the ~3 years I've been lurking here, that one could call 'editorializing', which is your specialty. Naw, I'm not spinning, and I don't really need that 'push'. It doesn't matter what distro/version of Linux your using in order to 'learn the ways of the command line', as opportunity to do that is almost endless and limitless no matter where you're parked in Linux. From your own hand/mind.... "Linux is Linux".

[JN4OldSchool]

Originally Posted by PabloTwo

@JN4- not to derail this thread and it's topic, but... my post here was, as a few others, tongue-in-cheek and just having/poking fun. In regards to my 'other' post you refer to, that was probably my first post on this forum, in the ~3 years I've been lurking here, that one could call 'editorializing', which is your specialty. Naw, I'm not spinning, and I don't really need that 'push'. It doesn't matter what distro/version of Linux your using in order to 'learn the ways of the command line', as opportunity to do that is almost endless and limitless no matter where you're parked in Linux. From your own hand/mind.... "Linux is Linux".

Ayup. But the distro can make or break it by how it is put together, and that is not a jab at Fedora. From everything I see F10 is pretty righteous. I have been tempted to jump back aboard this train a few times. But things are feeling pretty "right" here at the moment so I am sitting tight for now.