Favorite linux distro

xtheblack9x · Post by **xtheblack9x** » 23 Jan 2006, 03:49

whats every ones favorite linux distribution? and why?

for me i would say mandriva or fedora

Post by **bad_brain** » 23 Jan 2006, 03:53

well,for me it´s still RedHat9 Enterprise, simply for the fact that it´s on my server...

but I´ll switch to Fedora soon because the support for RH9 has been ended..

xtheblack9x · Post by **xtheblack9x** » 23 Jan 2006, 04:41

bad_brain wrote:well,for me it´s still RedHat9 Enterprise, simply for the fact that it´s on my server...
but I´ll switch to Fedora soon because the support for RH9 has been ended..

is this site on your personal server? or are you paying for one? if it is yours what kinda connection do you have?

Post by **bad_brain** » 23 Jan 2006, 05:29

nope, this site is on a different server. my server is a rented one..

GODhack · Post by **GODhack** » 27 Jan 2006, 14:27

Puppy linux is the best for me.

Why?
1)Small,
2)easy to start from cd or usb or hdd or external hdd or...
3)fast - doesn't just work; it runs happily in most every computer!
Puppy Rocks!

MEPIS, Knoppix, Baltix(distro localized for my country) and Ubuntu also is good.

w1tchdoctor · Post by **w1tchdoctor** » 27 Jan 2006, 15:02

I personally like Knoppix....it usually comes with a kick ass packet sniffer......

xtheblack9x · Post by **xtheblack9x** » 27 Jan 2006, 15:28

GODhack wrote:Puppy linux is the best for me.
Why?
1)Small,
2)easy to start from cd or usb or hdd or external hdd or...
3)fast - doesn't just work; it runs happily in most every computer!
Puppy Rocks!

MEPIS, Knoppix, Baltix(distro localized for my country) and Ubuntu also is good.

think it would run good on a 700mh celeron with 128 mb or ram. normally wouldn't bother with such a slow machine but i think im going to put it in my car

Post by **bad_brain** » 27 Jan 2006, 17:01

magiceiko wrote: think it would run good on a 700mh celeron with 128 mb or ram. normally wouldn't bother with such a slow machine but i think im going to put it in my car

man, it would run REALLY good on a 700mHz box....my RedHat home server is just a P2 and it works fine. and such small distros are even optimized for really slow systems by using slim window managers like Fluxbox, so even the cheapest/slowest graphics card and CPU is enough.

xtheblack9x · Post by **xtheblack9x** » 27 Jan 2006, 18:46

bad_brain wrote:
magiceiko wrote: think it would run good on a 700mh celeron with 128 mb or ram. normally wouldn't bother with such a slow machine but i think im going to put it in my car
man, it would run REALLY good on a 700mHz box....my RedHat home server is just a P2 and it works fine. and such small distros are even optimized for really slow systems by using slim window managers like Fluxbox, so even the cheapest/slowest graphics card and CPU is enough.

sweet ill have to make it a project on day and try it. so far debian has been the best but man i tryed installing the newest fedora and the newest mandriva and boy did it run slow.

Spartan09 · Post by **Spartan09** » 13 Feb 2006, 19:40

I would have to say that even though I am using Suse now, I liked ubuntu<---(spelling may be off) the best. I have tried many different distros and unbuntu is the one that has given me the least amount of trouble, and easiest set up. I like suse, but for some reason emacs won't work, but that could be a different thread all together.

Post by **bad_brain** » 14 Feb 2006, 04:49

yeah, I heard it already a couple of times that Ubuntu is a real nice distro, I hope I have some time in the near future to test it...

well, imo emacs is obsolete anyway, vi is a lot better, and it´s shell-only which is important when administrating remotely over SSH for example.

here are the basic vi commands:
when starting all you can do is to move the cursor, to edit the file you have to press i for insert.
when done with editing you have to press esc

by pressing : you start a command
:q quits vi
:w saves the file

you can also combine commands:
:wq saves the file and quits vi then