What distro do you run?

[paulunderwood]

I re-installed 98 and it now runs much quicker -- almost as fast a linux now. The only difference I can tell is that I now use AVG instead of Norton Anitvirus.

Also, I am installing Slackware instead of Mandrake on new systems because it is smaller, so I can use smaller disks. With Slackware I can install the base system, Samba, ssh amd IPtools using less than 150MBs

[amcfarlane]

FreeBSD -- Free the Beastie!

[leifbk]

Gentoo here on my three Linux boxes

[xilman]

FreeBSD 4.9
Gentoo
Redhat 9.0
RedHat 8.0
Redhat 7.1
Debian something or other on an Alpha box (and I can't be bothered looking it up!)
UltraSparc Solaris 5.7
WinXP Pro
Win2K3S.
WinCE 2.11 (ok, this is cheating --- I only use that box (a HP Jornada) for internet access when on the road and for running Pari/GP.

Many and various OS on machines I no longer boot up. You really don't want a full list.


Paul

[T.Rex]

Previously: Mandrake 7.2 , RedHat 9.

Now: RedHat FedoraCore 2 then 3.

[paulunderwood]

The 500Mb disk supporting one of my slackware installations went down. -- luckily I had taken a backup a few hours before it crashed. So I dug out a 80Mb disk and booted a Knoppix live CD, ran fdisk and mkfs.ext2 on the hard drive for user space. When I boot the Knoppix CD all I have to is mount the hard drive, make it readable and run my application ( NewPGen ). With the network device plugged into my router I am instantly able to access The Internet -- infact I am typing this message from the Knoppix machine now

[Peter Nelson]

I've tried a few other distros including Mandrake, Ubuntu, Knoppix, but I have used various Suse versions over the years 5.? 7.x 9.1, 9.2 and now 9.3. I do have a FC3 disk somewhere but never got round to installing it.

I like the Suse live DVD bootable versions - very handy.

Also have the 9.3 retail boxed set ie 2 dvd plus 5 cd plus manuals.

I can confirm that the linux version of prime95 runs well on this OS.

Suse is one of the few distros (yet) to support 64 bit hardware and I also find it very stable and being pretty up to date on packages.

My desktop environment of choice is KDE (now v3.4).

[paulunderwood]

I have just installed "Sarge". It is very nice! Over 512k DSL the 14 CD download was fairly slow. I wish I had 18M connection and a DVD burner

Now I have debian, slackware and mandrake boxes. What next?

[Xyzzy]

Originally Posted by paulunderwood

Over 512k DSL the 14 CD download was fairly slow.

A net install is much faster and a better usage of resources... Why download all that stuff you will never need?

http://www.debian.org/distrib/netinst

I particulary like how you can use just a few floppies to start this if you want... No CD or DVD drive required...

[gribozavr]

My first distro was ASPLinux 7.2 (FYI, it is based on RedHat). After I bought a big book about linux and started to move from windows to linux, I undersdood that my distro was outdated for desktop usage (though it was ok for the server -- I got the CDs from some server admin). I asked him about something newer and he gave me the first cd from Slackware 9.1. I tried it and it seemed me a bit hard to configure, though I liked the ability to control everything; as it was only one cd, there were not enough programs (e.g OpenOffice). So, I went to the nearest cd-shop and bought Mandrake 10 (it was the only linux distro there). I liked it at first, but when I finally organized a LAN in my house and we bought 96k/64k unlimited (!) DSL line, I had to chose a distro for the router. I bought a Pentium-MMX 233MHz with 64Mb RAM and 1.6Gb harddisk and found that Mandrake won't run smoothly there (even without GUI). So, I installed Slackware 9.1. It worked pretty well after 2 days of configuration.
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?...zavr.no-ip.org



I started to read reviews and feedback about different distros and finally chose the distro of my dream -- Debian. I downloaded stable Sarge and installed it. It impressed me by a variety of programs, nearly full localization, security updates, and, of course, package management with apt-get. I liked Debian so much that I installed it on my server. The base installation took about 200MB. Now it is:

# df -h
Filesystem            Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hda1             1.6G  470M  1.1G  31% /

Originally Posted by paulunderwood

I have just installed "Sarge". It is very nice! Over 512k DSL the 14 CD download was fairly slow. I wish I had 18M connection and a DVD burner

I wish I were you. I downloaded 7 CDs at 32 kbit/s (I don't use the line exclusively).

[E_tron]

Debian, but "running" it was the easy part. If only i could use it... someday...