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Solon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Feb-18-05 11:05 PM
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Poll question: What distro of *nix do you use?
Whether FC3 or Mandrake, BSD, or Darwin, what is the distro you use now?
If you have one that doesn't appear listed here, it is most likely is listed here, hence the "based" part of the choice, for example, if you have Ubuntu Linux, its Debian Based, but if you have ASP Linux, it is Red Hat based. Actually, you could get even more confused, technically Mandrake Linux is Red Hat based, and Darwin is BSD based. Oh, well, so tell us what you use!
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SeanQuinn Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-19-05 10:44 AM
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1. Formerly FC3, now Ubuntu [Debian-based]
great distro. Faster than Fedora, less bloated, it comes with my wireless drivers in the kernel already, and many packages available in .deb format.
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Solon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Feb-20-05 12:53 AM
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7. Yeah....
I'm waiting for Hoary to get out of beta stage so far, I liked the Warty distro though I don't use it right now. I use Kanotix 2005.1, based on Knoppix with better hardware detection. Also is debian based on the Unstable tree.
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mike_c Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-19-05 12:33 PM
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2. I've also made the move from FC3 to Ubuntu, but...
...I still have a couple of computers running SuSE 8.1 and FC1 as well. Ubunto is pretty sweet, however.
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qnr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-19-05 02:14 PM
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3. You need an "Other" because I use a source-based distro - and don't
Edited on Sat Feb-19-05 02:20 PM by qnr
say "Gentoo" covers that, because Source Mage pre-dates Gentoo.

Source Mage GNU/Linux

Also, I use NetBSD
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Solon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-19-05 11:22 PM
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5. Sorry! Past the Edit stage....
I should have thought of that already!!! *smacks head*
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qnr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-19-05 11:29 PM
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6. heheheh s'ok :)
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alfredo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-19-05 05:07 PM
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4. My Linux box
is on extended loan to a friend who has had his fill of MS bullshit. It is dual boot, OSX/YellowDog Linux.
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StrongbadTehAwesome Donating Member (623 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Feb-26-05 12:00 AM
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8. FC3 on my desktop, Ubuntu on my laptop n/t
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Syrinx Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Mar-06-05 05:49 PM
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9. pure source code
Bootstrapped from Red Hat 6.0.
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Occulus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-21-05 12:36 AM
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15. Showoff.
:)
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longship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Aug-23-05 10:40 PM
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10. Let's see.
Edited on Tue Aug-23-05 10:42 PM by longship
achilles -- Debian Sarge - PIV - Apache, Sendmail, Workstation
tortoise -- Gentoo stage 1 - AMD Duron - Workstation
turing -- Gentoo stage 1 - VIA EPIA Nehemiah - Workstation
sloth -- Red Hat based - StrongARM (NetWinder) - DNS server
bach -- Debian based - router hardware - Firewall
escher -- Debian - P1 (Cyrex) - (retired)
magnificrab -- Damn Small Linux - PII - ????

I voted Debian. But I'm slowly but surely becoming a Gentoo user.
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FormerDittoHead Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Aug-27-05 09:38 PM
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11. What about Suse?
I'm using it - the install was great, and even though I haven't been able to figure out how to get my wireless LAN card to work (where to set it to ath0 via Yast?) It's pretty much the same as Redhat, which I'm used to using.

Once you get whatever running, however, and choose your desktop manager (I switch between KDE and Windowmaker, depending upon what I'm doing) they seem to be all pretty much the same.
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Lowell Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Aug-29-05 11:44 AM
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12. SUSE 9.3
Been using SuSE for several years. Didn't see it on the list. It runs great and is easy to maintain.
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Dogmudgeon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-05 04:37 PM
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13. My First Linux Distro
Yggsadril. Named after the Norse tree of the gods.

It was an unmitigated pain in the ass and its version of X didn't like my graphics card. I tried Linux a total of four times before I finally tried Ubuntu, and love it.

Just in time, too. Microsoft wants me to pay them something like $900 for a new MSDN subscription to develop in DotNet. Installing anything from them has become an ordeal of license navigation. I don't even have a job, and Microsoft's encouragement of my last employers' outsourcing didn't help my financial profile. So they're losing a developer.

And as much as I've loved Visual Basic, I've started to learn Python. C is also on the roster.

Mark Shuttlesworth can take a vacation in space any time he wants, as far as I'm concerned. So can Bill Gates, but he has to give Shuttlesworth the heat shield.

--p!
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bemildred Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-19-05 10:12 PM
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14. Welcome to Un*x.
:hi:
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5X Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Oct-22-05 11:46 AM
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16. Puppy
not sure of what it is based on. Newbie, but got the
wireless working.
Now have it set up on celeron 400 custom box
and IBM Thinkpad 390e.
Started with live cd then installed to hard drive,
win98se partitions on both.
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longship Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Feb-22-06 05:09 AM
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17. More than one distribution.
Red Hat for StrongARM on Corel Netwinder
Debian Testing on Intel P4
Gentoo 2.6.15 on Athlon 64 X2
Gentoo 2.6.15 on VIA EPIA MII12000/C3 Nehemiah
Gentoo 2.6.11 on AMD Duron

I also have a Intel PII that runs Damn Small Linux.

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