I voted Red Hat since that's what I use currently, but in reality, it's a tossup between Red Hat and Slackware. I love "Slack" for its simplicity, but I just need a machine to put it on...


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MasterC.... No one could have said it better.

There's a lot of hatred towards lindows as evidenced by many posts on this site. But what everybody overlooks is that it represents competition for our pet hate monopoly...(guess who).

I have never used any distros apart from Mandrake 8.2/9.1 and Coyote. But I still love any company working towards making the Penguin the most viable operating system. Never mind what they charge for their products.

Red hat 9 all the way.

I tried installing Mandrake 9.1 on my IBM Netvista p4 1.8 but it keeps freezing everytime I try to update mandrake or swap files on my Jaguar box. But RedHat 9.0 never chokes. Its great.

i voted gentoo. it is my current "desktop" os. i am pretty new to linux, i'm not a computer guy. tried mandrakes, redhats, suses,
libranets. gentoo takes time to install, and as a complete software idiot, i had my share of problems getting gentoo going,
but i finally succeeded getting most of what i wanted working,
and enjoyed the experience, and also learned a bit about linux.
there seems to be some controversy about whether gentoo optimizations are truly effective. i dont know, my optimizations werent that drastic, i havent installed a ton of stuff like i would/did with the cd based distros, so maybe the fact that gentoo boots faster(except for libranet) and that apps like mozilla,opera, and openoffice launch quicker in gentoo is due more to having an overall smaller install? i like portage, but i'm
having second thoughts due to my lack of linux knowhow and potential configuration issues as i update thru portage. if you asked for a second favorite distro, i would vote libranet. if i replace gentoo, it will be with libranet.

I think that Lindows should be appreciated for what is trying to do, but instead the linux gurus generally treat it as an non-linux OS. It's like the pigeon that wanted to be a crow that ended up in the end in being banished away from pigeons and crows too.

I think I might. I installed Debian on my router because I wanted a distro with a decent package management and upgrade system and Gentoo was out of the question because it was a 486 but I'm starting to get so sick and tired of its crap that I really want to put something else on and swaret has given me reason to Slackware back on it.

thats so deep dude.

I prefer RedHat simply because I generally use it, but I am surprised that more people don't use Debian. I am considering a move to it sometime soon, and I thought almost all linux geeks generally used slack or debian.

mmmm.....

i dont know if i should call it a distribution, as there is no one distributing it, but hey, its my distro of choice for now.

OTHER -> "Linux From Scratch"

the other would be Arch.