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

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

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Post by aceofspades19 »

enneff wrote: post #14
rpledge wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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).

I'm curious as to why you think slackware isn't organized

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

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Post by bensummers »

grendel wrote: post #49

The main server at home is debian. i have one desktop box and the tiny vaio running ubuntu. recently being hacking obj-c for the iphone so osx has become my main desktop. have been considering switching to opensolaris for my server.

OpenSolaris is not really ready for a server, plus about one in four builds breaks something useful. If the features you need are in Solaris 10, it's probably worth the time to learn the grumpy old UNIX rather than be distracted by the new shiny.
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