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?

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Post by retroflexzy » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 4:14 AM UTC

ezmobius wrote: post #7

gentoo

Gentoo as well, on 3 separate machines.

Shared portage tree over NFS, distcc cluster, etc.

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

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Post by JeremyChase » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 4:26 AM UTC

cmelbye wrote: post #11

Up-voted for including Mac OS X.

Of all these choices OS X is the only one that is legally 'Unix'. The Unix trademark is owned by The Open Group, and to use the term Unix you have to meet several criteria and pay a substantial fee. The FOSS *nixes do generally meet the requirements, but do not pay the fee.

ta-da!

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

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Post by Batsu » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 4:42 AM UTC

Primarily a Windows user, but I use Gentoo on occasion. It doesn't get a lot of face time since I'm not doing the work that I originally installed it for anymore.

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

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Post by ecq » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 5:10 AM UTC

OSX

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

#65

Post by natrius » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 5:14 AM UTC

holdenk wrote: post #40

spooneybarger wrote: post #31

Not sure why some people expressed surprise with debian being so far behind. I would use Ubuntu for home use as well even though we use Debian for all things Linux + Server.

I've been using Ubuntu @ home and Debian for servers (and RHEL for day job), but I'm considering dumping Ubuntu. dontzap and stuff like that is crazysauce.

Adding a line to your xorg.conf sounds easier than switching distros.

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

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Post by Gibbon » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 5:30 AM UTC

uggedal wrote: post #42

lamnk wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Same here, i use Arch fulltime on my laptop

Arch Linux here as well. On my netbook, laptop, and htpc,

OSX on the laptop but Arch everywhere else, although I'd prefer freebsd if I could find a suitable hosting provider.

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

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Post by notthinking » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 5:52 AM UTC

Arch Linux - Rolling release, minimal, and great community

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

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Post by Scott_MacGregor » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 5:54 AM UTC

RHEL 5.4 64-bit with Centos in virtual via XEN.

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

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Post by walesmd » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 5:58 AM UTC

I voted for Ubuntu, but in reality it's Linux Mint. As well, I have a Windows 7 machine (that I love) and an XP machine.

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

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Post by pmcginn » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 6:10 AM UTC

spyrosk wrote: post #5

Arch

Another vote for Arch.

I've only been using Linux for half a year, maybe, and in that time I've tried Ubuntu, Gentoo, and Arch. Gentoo will always hold a place in my heart for teaching me more in three days than I learned in three months on Ubuntu, but maintaining it was just more work than I wanted to put in for my primary use machine. It also has the best community I've found--any question I had was already answered, in depth, on the forums. Ubuntu and Arch seem to have too many people guessing at answers instead of knowing them, from what I've experienced.

I've been consistently impressed with the Arch philosophy and implementation. Pacman's a dream to work with and the AUR/ABS is a beautiful system.