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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 ilyak »

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).

Not until they fix their default vim configuration. Arrows, pgup/pgdown, home/end should work out of box in both modes.

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

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Post by mapleoin »

htsh wrote: post #19
matthall28 wrote: post #10

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

out of curiosity, why Fedora?

I mainly use Fedora because their community is targeted at contributors rather than users. I switched to Fedora so I could contribute to their infrastructure team and get to play with all their webapps. In Fedora you can become anything you want. You can play with all of the servers, the build servers, updates, wiki, blogs, planet etc. given you've proven yourself.

I've recently begun contributing packages as well. The processes are a lot more complex than Arch for example, but it's all very documented and sane once you get over the steep learning curve. Packages get through a lot more filters before they get accepted and there's also the "send all patches upstream" mantra which makes Fedora special because we are contributing to other distros as well this way :)

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

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Post by _b8r0 »

spyrosk wrote: post #5

Arch

I've been using Linux for longer than I care to remember (and 386BSD before that) and after a few years on Ubuntu I was amazed at how much of a breath of fresh air Arch is.

Ubuntu always worked well compared to other distros, I could do stuff and it'd just work or there'd be plenty of help and support. I put Arch on an old P3 850 with 256mb of RAM and it just flies. I can be logged into my desktop from cold boot in the time it takes for my dual core Vista laptop to go from login to desktop. That (and discovering awesome wm) are the reasons that Arch gets my vote. Yes there's a learning curve as with any new distro or program but it's definitely worthwhile.

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

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Post by siddhant »

Archlinux. It has literally proved to be an end to my distro hopping. I've had crazy experiences with Ubuntu. And IMHO, the only 2 distros that are fun to work with, are Arch and Gentoo. I just dont have the patience to compile each and every package, so Arch it is. :)

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

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Post by sidmitra »

codedivine wrote: post #22
wglb wrote: post #21

I use the following in my home setup: 16 ubuntu machines, 3 OpenBSD machines, 1 freebsd, 8 centos (one headnode, 7 diskless compute nodes) 2 osx, 1 windows (oops-two; wife's laptop). Several of these are old recycled boxes, but every one of these has a job. In retrospect, I wish I had done 8 of the ubuntu servers as freebsd.

Uhh, do you live in a server farm :) ?

It must be hot in there!!
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