Which one is your favourite Distro in Linux ?

[indigo]

Here I wanna know that which distro which u people like most??

Also pm me to add your distro name here..

[dalek]

I picked Mandrake but I like Gentoo most.  I picked Mandrake because it is a really great OS for someone that is new or switching from windoze.  I did the former not the latter.  I hate windoze, sorry.

I think Gentoo is really cool and fast.  Mandrake is easy to setup as long as hardware is compatable.

LFS, maybe one day soon.  That one is tough.

Later

       

[narsingh]

My assessment of the common distros:

Mandrake - excellent for new starters.


SuSE - excellent for new as well as somewhat advanced users. But I don't like some of their propritory modifications to the common apps.

RedHat - very good for servers and networks. Most of the documentation available make reference to it. Almost the defacto standard. But they had always been non-considerate towards the SOHO/desktop/small users. Now they have started concentrating on the Enterprise - the money is there. Fedora project is there way of telling the world that they are connected to the Linux philosophy.

Gentoo - Excellent. Optimal installation. very fast. Requires tons of patience to build. Needs bandwidth for Net access, else you will be sitting for days, something uncommon for common Indian users. But certainly a Distro to watch out in the future.

Debian - Not for newcomers. Rock solid. True to the GNU/Linux philosophy. "Apt" alone makes it way above the rest. It means you have really graduated.

Slackware - Sticks to the old world charm. Is the most Unix-like of all. Rock solid.

[dragoncity99]

Haha, i agree with nar singh

I used Red Hat as my first linux ( Now using Fedora)
Well, it pampers me a lot especially in console mode. Suitable for setting up servers.

Slackware is my new flavour . Well, it's very fast i can say. Few services and fast boot up time.
Not very suitable for beginners. I like its idea of installing package without dependencies. (*.tgz packages)

Mandrake, errr, guess i use it only for multimedia stuffs. Nothing much actually. Very suitable for those u likes to use GUIs (good for beginners)


Cant i vote more than one distros? I like slackware too.

[Ricky]

guys.. We don't have many vote for the poll but uptill now.. Redhat is on the top..
So.. RedHat is the best ??

[dragoncity99]

Not many people knows about this poll i think.
Why not we put a headline on top of the main forum index to let others know.

[tuxfan]

I vote for RedHat (or now Fedora) or also PCQ Linux which is based on Fedora.

I can't vote for anything else, because I have never seen any other distro so far except Knoppix, Red Hat (Fedora) and PCQ Linux (based on Fedora)

[firewall]

using Debian. it's pretty kool. beside this, i like gentoo !:)

[spoody_goon]

I choose Mendrake I mean Mandrake. I'm not sure why being easy is a bad thing but I need to work thus the user freindlyness of Mandrake hits the spot.
However the version of Mandrake10 I have is not very stable I don't know why but 9.2 was a lot better for stablility.

[tuxfan]

One reason for going for Red Hat / Fedora is that you will find most number of books for that. They are easily available and cheap. So self-learning is easier.

[firewall]

yes... @Tuxfan... besides it supports most hardwares .

[tuxfan]

I haven't yet tried my internal modem and USB Scanner with PCQ Linux (based on Fedora Core 1). External modem works fine.

I will have to see how internal modem and USB Scanner works with PCQ Linux because there have been problems with detection.

Red Hat 9 failed to recognise them.

[firewall]

dunno about internal modems but in pcqlinux usb scanner will work, though it will not autodetect it. refer howtos on usb to make ur scanner work.

[tuxfan]

Ok. Thanks.

[jeeva]

i really feel redhat is better than suse( i used only redhat and suse, nothing apart from those two ). you can see some marketing stratagies in the commercial versions!! its not bad!! but still i like to use redhat and i always feel comfortable with redhat!!