Fedora from f08 to f16, but switched to centos 6.4.
Poll: HN desktop Linux users, what distro do you use?
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Re: Poll: HN desktop Linux users, what distro do you use?
#32Unfortunately, the distro whose philosophy I like the most has a package manager that I like the least. Therefore, instead of Arch, I use Ubuntu.
Re: Poll: HN desktop Linux users, what distro do you use?
#33Fedora from f08 to f16, but switched to centos 6.4.
Re: Poll: HN desktop Linux users, what distro do you use?
#34Fedora from f08 to f16, but switched to centos 6.4.
Re: Poll: HN desktop Linux users, what distro do you use?
#35It's weird; I was introduced to linux via CentOS (while working) and I immediately fell in love with it, but I can't pin down /why/ I genuinely like this particular distro. Anything I come up with seems pedantic at best. Maybe I'm just in love with a particular part of linux. Maybe its how I'm able to look at the innards of an OS and see how components of a system interact. Or maybe I'm in love with the puzzle in an…
It sounds like you're in love with Linux, more than specifically CentOS.
Re: Poll: HN desktop Linux users, what distro do you use?
#36I started out with Gentoo, maybe 10 years ago. It was the coolest thing, but later realized that I was spending a lot of time compiling everything and wanted these magical things called "binaries" instead. So I switched to Ubuntu - Warty Warthog! I loved it because it was a minimal distro that was very useful and fit on a single CD. (I neither had lots of internet nor CDs available to me at the time.) Also, I never k…
"I started out with Gentoo, maybe 10 years ago. It was the coolest thing, but later realized that I was spending a lot of time compiling everything and wanted these magical things called "binaries" instead."
I'm using Gentoo and I don't really notice this, but that's probably because my needs are fairly minimal and I take the approach of "if it's working, don't change it". Unless I happen to upgrade to something that requires a new version of a library that then breaks other things that were linking to it, setting of a chain of forced recompilation, I don't really spend much time compiling at all. (Amortized time compiling, in light of the library issue just mentioned, might still be high.)
Curious what other Gentoo users' perceptions of time spent compiling is.
Re: Poll: HN desktop Linux users, what distro do you use?
#37Unfortunately, the distro whose philosophy I like the most has a package manager that I like the least. Therefore, instead of Arch, I use Ubuntu.
What is wrong with pacman?
Re: Poll: HN desktop Linux users, what distro do you use?
#38Unfortunately, the distro whose philosophy I like the most has a package manager that I like the least. Therefore, instead of Arch, I use Ubuntu.
I'd like to know as well. I love the simplicity of pacman.
Re: Poll: HN desktop Linux users, what distro do you use?
#39I started out with Gentoo, maybe 10 years ago. It was the coolest thing, but later realized that I was spending a lot of time compiling everything and wanted these magical things called "binaries" instead. So I switched to Ubuntu - Warty Warthog! I loved it because it was a minimal distro that was very useful and fit on a single CD. (I neither had lots of internet nor CDs available to me at the time.) Also, I never k…
Same here, around 8-9 years ago... on a laptop. Things would break all the time for me and it was hard to even use any vanilla kernels on it. It taught me most of my basic linux skills, and the forums were a treasure of information (before they took a dive, not sure how they are nowadays). I often had to boot Knoppix (livecd) to fix things.
It was a distro that invited a lot of experimenting and tweaking.
I've been running opensuse as my main distro now for a couple years. Great kde support, very stable, gets the job done. For servers I gravitate towards CentOS.
Re: Poll: HN desktop Linux users, what distro do you use?
#40I started out with Gentoo, maybe 10 years ago. It was the coolest thing, but later realized that I was spending a lot of time compiling everything and wanted these magical things called "binaries" instead. So I switched to Ubuntu - Warty Warthog! I loved it because it was a minimal distro that was very useful and fit on a single CD. (I neither had lots of internet nor CDs available to me at the time.) Also, I never k…
as a power-user, I was really unhappy when the switched from init scripts to upstart
Why? Personally, I much prefer the declarative configuration over the lengthy SysV boilerplate, and there's always pre-start and such if you want to insert some shell code.
By the way, may I suggest Debian Sid/Unstable? Most of the commands and package names are the same (for obvious reasons ;), it has a rolling release (so you're always up-to-date) and it's still on SysV init scripts.