Which Linux ???

I just want to know which Linux distribution is used by the most users or suggested by the great Hackers

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  Red Hat
  SuSe
  Slackware
  Mandrake
  Debian
  Caldera
  Others

I am using Openlinux now for my toy server, an old PII 233 64MB ram. Everything else I've moved *BSD but my RAQ's.

Gentoo here! I like thier bsd style portage, and it uses the hardware I spent money on. You use an RPM style distro and you wasted money on all that nice new hardware since it isn't compiled for it. Yay.

i too have to say gentoo, if u looking for something to really pust ur buttons, install freebsd

Hi Im new here anyway I use Redhat Linux...

Gentoo! Portage is just so much easier to work with than any other package management system

Slackware for Servers, Redhat on the desktop - Right tool for the right job


christo

Fantastic comments! But I mainly use Mandrake - 9 for desktop and for server searching........ i.e. learning

But what for Hacking ???

And what SuSe is good for ???

well to be honest, I like to hack on Slack - I find it's much simpler to understand exactly what is going on under the hood.. I regularly re-gen my kernels on a few of my Slack boxen, I build all applications from source and configure them up to the nines

However Redhat is nice for the desktop, just because everything works out of the box, the packages are easy to find and install and the whole Bluecurve thing is very easy on the eye. I did try with Dropline Gnome on a Slack-installed laptop recently and it was fscking awsome, but there were some bothersome holes in the dropline package list... I found galeon and evolution were badly supported (partly because Ximian don't support slackware) and there were a lot of missing Gtk libraries..

So my hope is that someday soon I'll be able to convert back to a slackware desktop, but for now, Redhat is making my life very easy.... and I still have some Slack boxen kicking around to hack with..

As for SuSe, I have seen it running on other people's machines and it really does look fantastic. However I have never tried it. From what I understand it's a heavily German-based distro, so you'll find a lot of the docs and support forums etc are in german - although that's probably changed somewhat in recent years too..

Anyway.. I'll stop foaming now

christo

CHR15T0 (Your Name ???)

No doubt you are indepth of Linux and thanks again for sharing your knowledge

I am new here but hope I will continue and share knowledge with "you" people

C U.

Debian

Easy to install, easy to use, and I can't help but say I love apt-get.

I’ve only used three Linux distributions in my life. I got my feet wet with Linux with a Redhat 6.2 box, then moved on to 7.2, and then 7.3. I heard everybody talking about Slackware and how nice it is, so I decided to give it a try, and I loved it!

Slackware is simple and sweet. I absolutely love the install! It gives you complete control over what’s installed, and doesn’t install anything you don’t tell it to install, even if it will break the system. I love that though! It does what you tell it to and that’s all.

I’ve never tried any other distributions because there is nothing Slackware isn’t good at. However, people started talking about Gentoo and how good it was too. After using BSD for a while at the time, Portage sounded cool, and I liked the idea of having a system totally optimized for your architecture.

If I’m going to run Linux though, I’ll run Slackware. Gentoo just takes way to long to install on my old PII 200Mhz with 64MB RAM computers, and my other faster computers are occupied.

Jason

yellowdog. for three reasons:

1. looks and feels like rh9
2. has apt-get!
3. runs on low-power, cool running ppc mac hardware.

I believe that the best distro it the one that works for you. There are advantages and disadvantages to each -- but those differences pale to the time and effort it takes to configure that pesky hardware driver or find that USB device.

I have tried my PC favorite on my iMac: Debian, only to discover that old hardware configuration headache I had when I first tried Debian {i386] several years ago.

Mandrake makes me show my age, because it reminds my of an old Donovan song [Mountian]
...first there was a sound card, then there is no sound card, then there is...

I haven't tried Gentoo yet. Though I fear, I will someday. I just can't seem to be satisfied until I try everything that comes down the pike. It is an illness I have.

But right now, it's Yellow Dog. It's YDL 'cause all I did was put the disk in, select 'install everything,' and pick a desktop. All the hardware, except the iPod, is there. My cat could install it.

But that's just this machine. Your mileage may vary.