Which is your Favourite Linux?

I have used gentoo for quite some time, but it went hownhill quite drastically. Right now I use freebsd and exherbo, which is basically Gentoo done right. Unfortunately it's still pre-alpha, and doesn't have some essential packages, but with some bash scripting skills you can write exhereses (like ebuilds in gentoo) in no time.
 
anomie said:
For production RHEL servers my philosophy could probably be summarized as: keep it simple, secure, "standardized", and easy to maintain. ;) That is why I'm staying with officially supported repos wherever possible. (Even if it is limiting at times.)
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pkgsrc.org would be kept only at one dir /usr/pkgsrc + /usr/pkg so I do not see any "bad" things here, only matter of of adding additional PATH.

Also openpkg.org is kept in similar way, only /openpkg and nothing more, even all scripts are kept there.
 
I like Gentoo though I have nice memories of Debian. Gentoo is used on a desktop machine to run mainly VirtualBox and flash. My laptop does run OpenSUSE as my wife likes it.

Gentoo has very good documentation, loads of packages and I can customize it as I see fit. From it I'd say the logical step is to move to FreeBSD due to some similarities such as the organization of ports/portage, documentation and customization.

I guess that the killer feature that I look for in a system is documentation and in the Linux land I'd point to Gentoo as its best example.
 
Started from ASPLinux, not so clear. A bit later I'm took FreeBSD 5.2.1 install CD from friend, who worked at this time in local ISP. And from this time actively using FreeBSD, as server\router and as desktop.

Answering a theme question I will tell that the favourite distribution kit linux - slackware because it really GNU :)
PS:Has tried many distribution kits linux & other systems, but really cosy I feel only in FreeBSD.
 
I like Slackware. My biggest thing with Slackware is how 99.9% of anything I've had to compile on it, compiled with no problems. That is, didn't ask me to get this library or this dependency; you know, the usual. :)
 
For servers I always use CentOS, with the EPEL and RPMFORGE repositories added to yum. For desktops Ubuntu all the way.
 
i don't even think about linux...how can i, i have most powerful OS in the world, why would i downgrade it to like..ubuntu..or something.
 
z0ran said:
i don't even think about linux...how can i, i have most powerful OS in the world, why would i downgrade it to like..ubuntu..or something.
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never underestimate linux as a decent mysql server!
 
r-c-e said:
never underestimate linux as a decent mysql server!
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You should try MySQL on FreeBSD and then edit your post, or learn how to tune MySQL while you're at it and then edit it. I've had nothing but performance gains with FreeBSD & MySQL, and I'm not really biased.

I use Debian sometimes, it's half decent. Also someone said Windows should never be connected to the internet, I've ran windows without anti-virus and such and I've never gotten virus's, when I used to fix computers the ones filled with virus's were filled with pornographic material... soo yeah. If you browse safely with windows you shouldn't have a issue, it's very insecure though regardless.
 
cmanns said:
You should try MySQL on FreeBSD and then edit your post, or learn how to tune MySQL while you're at it and then edit it. I've had nothing but performance gains with FreeBSD & MySQL, and I'm not really biased.
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Having "tried" MySQL on thousands of FreeBSD and Linux systems I think I might leave my post as is, but thanks for the invitation. I have found Linux w/ SMP gives me more performance even after tuning so I use it on dedicated systems. On systems with both web servers and MySQL, FreeBSD is my choice.

What I have found to be true, more than performance between the two; performance is dictated by the least competent query creator on the system.
 
I used or tried Corel Linux, some old RedHat, Mandrake, SUSE, Arch, Debian, (Woody and Sarge), Zenwalk and Ubuntu (all since 5.10). I have Xubuntu 7.10 on my computer in work, so it is good time to reinstall (waiting for FreeBSD7.1)
 
Debian is the only distrib I can support.
I have run Gentoo for many years but finally it's so useless. The same spirit than FreeBSD but with all the inconvenients of Linux ... Using it in production is boring.

And finally FreeBSD > * :f
 
I've got OpenSUSE 11.1 on my desktop and laptop -so far it seems to be stable, fast and easy to use. At this point I definately prefer it to Ubuntu (and I'm no longer all that fond of wasting my time on minimalist distros like Slackware).
 
If I'm looking for quality and reliability, nothing compares to Slackware. It may drive some people nuts because of the missing dependencies but that's a feature of this distro :)

Slack I say - within the plethora of Linux distros it actually sucks less :D
 
oliverh said:
If I'm looking for quality and reliability, nothing compares to Slackware. It may drive some people nuts because of the missing dependencies but that's a feature of this distro :)

Slack I say - within the plethora of Linux distros it actually sucks less :D
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You can use pkgsrc.org / apt-get (slapt) / openpkg.org with Slackware to provide package management with dependency handling.
 
vermaden said:
You can use pkgsrc.org / apt-get (slapt) / openpkg.org with Slackware to provide package management with dependency handling.
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Yes I know, but I don't see this as disadvantage. As much as I like the ports in FBSD, I do like writing my scripts in Slack ;-)
 
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