Poll: What is your primary *nix distro on your home machine? • Hacker News Board

Re: Poll: What is your primary *nix distro on your home machine?

#11

Post by cmelbye » Sat, Oct 17, 2009, 11:20 PM UTC

Up-voted for including Mac OS X.

Re: Poll: What is your primary *nix distro on your home machine?

#12

Post by enneff » Sat, Oct 17, 2009, 11:20 PM UTC

I run FreeBSD on my home fileserver (primarly for its stable ZFS support, but also for its unparalleled documentation and ports system).

For all production servers I run Debian because they're the easiest to keep updated and to re-deploy at short notice.

Re: Poll: What is your primary *nix distro on your home machine?

#13

Post by frichard1974 » Sat, Oct 17, 2009, 11:20 PM UTC

What about Centos? Any opinions about it ?

Re: Poll: What is your primary *nix distro on your home machine?

#14

Post by enneff » Sat, Oct 17, 2009, 11:21 PM UTC

rpledge wrote: post #8

bediger wrote: post #2

Slackware.

Excellent choice. I think that slackware is the best way to learn Linux/unix systems

I grew up on Slackware, but I'd argue that today FreeBSD (ie, a "real Unix") is a better option (mostly for its quality documentation and sane organisation).

Re: Poll: What is your primary *nix distro on your home machine?

#15

Post by lallysingh » Sat, Oct 17, 2009, 11:24 PM UTC

OpenSolaris

Re: Poll: What is your primary *nix distro on your home machine?

#16

Post by aaronblohowiak » Sat, Oct 17, 2009, 11:27 PM UTC

cmelbye wrote: post #11

Up-voted for including Mac OS X.

it is POSIX compliant!

Re: Poll: What is your primary *nix distro on your home machine?

#17

Post by codedivine » Sat, Oct 17, 2009, 11:29 PM UTC

This is turning out to be interesting. Ubuntu and OSX are top choices and everything else seems really distant. From the top clicks on distrowatch.com, I had assumed OpenSUSE,fedora, debian and mint will be closer too.

Re: Poll: What is your primary *nix distro on your home machine?

#18

Post by htsh » Sat, Oct 17, 2009, 11:32 PM UTC

frichard1974 wrote: post #13

What about Centos? Any opinions about it ?

In my experience I've seen it used in servers quite a bit, typically those running cpanel. Its very similar to RHEL but without the pay-support plans. I've helped to run a machine running it for 3-4 years now, with no real issues.

Re: Poll: What is your primary *nix distro on your home machine?

#19

Post by htsh » Sat, Oct 17, 2009, 11:33 PM UTC

matthall28 wrote: post #10

Fedora 11 for me on my Laptop, Snow Leopard + Windows 7 on Desktop

out of curiosity, why Fedora?

Re: Poll: What is your primary *nix distro on your home machine?

#20

Post by wglb » Sat, Oct 17, 2009, 11:37 PM UTC

frichard1974 wrote: post #13

What about Centos? Any opinions about it ?

I use it in combination with perceus to run my cluster. very smooth install, but I don't update it very often. Best thing for that sort of application, in my opinion.