I regret to say that this poll should have an option for Red Hat Enterprise Linux (pronounced, appropriately, "Arr Hell").
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?
#72Is anyone's choice of distro influenced by the type of servers they find themselves working on? For example, I find myself doing alot of work on REHL systems in the cloud, and thusly run Fedora (so I don't have to figure out where config files, etc. are kept in other distros).
Not quite servers, but I used to work in a lab where we used mostly RHEL/CentOS for our scientific computing work.
I found myself gravitating towards RPM-based distros during that time.
Re: Poll: HN desktop Linux users, what distro do you use?
#73I use Gentoo, on a bunch of servers across many providers (RackSpace, AWS, Linode, &c) Like memset I had some issues with waiting for compiles - especially when I started using Gentoo on both the desktop (Chromium!) and server. In ab out 2006 I configured a nice build system - All servers and desktops come from this same BINHOST. Amazing how stable a known, predictable, repeatable environment can be :)
I still laugh when my associates complain about their issues with CentOS, Ubuntu or Fedora - like not having latest versions or when some upgrade breaks things. Haven't had those issues since about 2007.
On the downside, I do have to maintain a few lines of shell script and a cronjob - and every now and then delete an email from root@calcium if there is a hiccup
Gentoo Binhost: http://praxis.edoceo.com/binhost
Re: Poll: HN desktop Linux users, what distro do you use?
#74New Linux convert here. Been an Ubuntu user since early April. Chose Ubuntu since it's what I defaulted to for my Linode instance (which I've also only had since January) upon referencing some guides, and since it seemed to have strong guides and references I could look to if I got stuck on something. Happy to be off the MSFT train after 17 years!
Ubuntu is a nice choice. It's easy enough, it has huge amounts of software available, commercial support is available, etc. The user generated support is variable in quality. There are a lot of people who know just enough to give the wrong advice, which can be frustrating.
There are some problems with Ubuntu. There are some political things about the benign dictator, and about contributing fixes, and about the direction it's going. These might not be at all important for you.
If you ever decide you want to leave Ubuntu you could chose Mint, which is popular (and they're doing interesting things). Mint should be as easy to use as Ubuntu. Or you could chose Fedora. The Fedora community is lovely! If you want to learn more about Linux and fancy a challenge you can try Arch. The Arch documentation is excellent, and is recommended reading even if you're not running Arch.
Re: Poll: HN desktop Linux users, what distro do you use?
#75* Sabayon - It's a better experience than pure Gentoo * SliTaz - You won't believe me how insanely fast it is! * Peppermint OS - Perfect for mum and friends Busybox Kernel, 35MB, but fully featured http://www.slitaz.org/en/ Ubuntu based, but much faster and less distracting http://peppermintos.com/ The perfect OS for a developer/sysadmin who is thrilled for more http://sabayon.org/
I used Sabayon and I will back this statement 100%. It was absolutely a pleasure to use, and surprisingly more slick than I expected.
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#77I've been through Redhat, Gentoo, Fedora, Ubuntu, Suse, OSX, and Arch over the past decade. Arch seems to be where I'm staying for a long time, for a few reasons.
First, it is a great distro for tinkering. I (obviously -- by my list) enjoy shaking things up and trying out new things, and Arch doesn't get in the way of doing so. Neither does Gentoo, but the compiling does get old after a while.
Second, I really enjoy the rolling-release system. It is nice to spend a few minutes every day updating the system to the latest & greatest rather than going through the 'big upgrade' every six months or so.
Finally, I feel like I'm the target market for Arch. OSX and Ubuntu are more general computing platforms. They are certainly usable, elegant, and outstrip my Arch/i3 setup for multimedia. But they don't scratch my particular itch. Arch does, and I don't think that's going to change anytime soon.
Re: Poll: HN desktop Linux users, what distro do you use?
#78Currently Ubuntu; likely switching to Debian in the near future. I was a huge Gentoo fan early on, but switched to Fedora when I stopped enjoying the USE configuration (which I still believe is awesome, just way too time-consuming), then to Ubuntu when I stopped enjoying yum (well, I never enjoyed yum). I think aptitude is the most stable package manager I've ever used. Likely going to Debian soon, though. Trying it…
Same here. Using 12.04 currently, but with the recent release of Debian Wheezy I'm considering using it for my daily work and getting more involved with Debian as a whole.
Re: Poll: HN desktop Linux users, what distro do you use?
#79Ubuntu has gotten me started on Linux thanks to the simple/low-hassle install process, and enough polish to be a bearable alternative to OSX or Windows. Now that I'm getting the hang of things, I'm beginning to prefer it in spite of the issues. I also like distros using Gnome 3+ but Ubuntu is ubiquitous enough that I defaulted to it.
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#80I used to use Debian for everything until I started working with OpenStack, and now use Ubuntu because it has releases in sync with OpenStack releases. So now I plan to have OpenStack running on both the server in the office & on the laptop that has a KDE desktop on it, too. It'll be nice because I can take my Windows 7 VM with me when I take the laptop out.
OpenStack is packaged for Debian. You just won't find them in the official repos. This guide may help: http://docs.openstack.org/trunk/openstack-compute/admin/cont...
devstack will work on Debian as well, although it is not officially supported.