hey ASP-linux is a singaporean product right?

As for old distributions, Suse has a lot of packages included, and looks like it would be easy to install if I had a boxed version but I tried downloading Suse and installing it, and had a problem. Then I installed Caldera and it was much easier to install and had no problems. But there is a new distribution out, that is really cool, extremely easy to install, and looks a lot like Windows XP. A lot of the icons look like they were taken directly from Windows XP. This distributiion is called Lycoris, and you can find it at www.lycoris.com. You can either buy it for $29.99 or download it for free from www.lycoris.com/download. It is great in my opinion.

I vote Slackware - It was my first Distro and I am most confident with this distro. I have tried others, but they usually fail in 1 or more situations (Installers usually fail) and Slack hasn't ever!

I vote for Slackware. Like someone said before:

"Once you go slack, you will never go back".

I'm with debian.It's by far the easiest to maintain and keep current.
Might install conectiva again to have something in a language wive and family understand.Good distro besides of being rpm-based.

I voted for Gentoo. I've tried Slackware (long time ago), Red Hat (around version 5.x) and more recently Mandrake 8.2, Suse 8.0 and Lycoris. It's been more than a week now since my Gentoo installation and i really love it so far.

Instructions are clear, your system is customized for your machine and is very fast. After the installation, i wanted to install KDE. Well it was really easy:

- type "emerge kde"
- go sleep
- edit the XF86Config file for my video card settings
- type "startkde"

that's it! The emerge command downloaded, compiled and installed all the required softwares. I never had that much control over my machine, yet it's very simple and very educative.

- type 'setup'
- edit XF86Config
- startx

And You dont even have to sleep when using slack

Slackware is my first choice. I feel like I am in control.

I think I have 8 machines at my house running Slack... Its been a while and they just don't ever screw up so I haven't checked on them in a while.

Cheers,

Finegan

lol, you got me there.

I just meant that whatever software you install in Gentoo, all the dependencies are resolved automatically.

So the point still stand, if the package you want is not included in your distribution you must go hunt the rpm packages and install them. Then you have the different libraries version conflicting, etc... I got these problems in Mandrake and Suse, the 2 recent distro i used. As long as you install included package you are safe... until you need to download and install another program using its source and that erase files used by existing programs... or you install a rpm designed for another distro and i puts its file at the wrong place.... etc... etc... do i need to go on? This apply to rpm-based distribution so that exclude Debian. Do the .tgz used by Slackware are any different?

With Gentoo this wasn't hapened to me (yet anyway). All the package i can think of are there... just because they are only small scripts (ebuild) that tells the system how to compile the official source package and not actually packages that needed to be created.

I find that Gentoo let me tweak and learn many thing and at the same time it eliminates all the chores about some other distro. Well as usual, YMMV.

Uh-huh, there is an office in Singapore, but it doesn't mean it belongs to them. Like Sony America, does it belong to USA?

http://www.asp-linux.com/en/company

"The ASPLinux Company was created by professional developers and managers team, and at present is one of the leading russia software and Linux services suppliers. ASPLinux team develops the same name GNU/Linux distribution program and different software products, based on that operating system."

HQs:
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Hmmm this is a good poll.. a good poll for the distributions section that is hehe

I've only used Mandrake,Corel,SuSe, RH and now Debian...Debian is so far the best distro I've used...apt-get and the painless install and security.

Say whatever you uber-slackers want, but I've used Mandrake because I'm too lazy to learn everything about my OS, and it does just fine on what I need it for:
- Learning programming (best and cheapest programs are found for unixes, sure.)
- Text handling
- Complex mathemathical formulae calculating (I'm in high school by now, upper secondary)

My familys better computer runs windows, and I'm wrestling for dual-booting, as my comp is poor 266mhz WITHOUT EVEN ACCES TO NETWORK!!! Holy shit thunder!

Mandrake is a damn good distro, to me, the best RPM based distro around. Slack is for when you are ready to take the blue pill (or was it the red one?), and see what the real world is like. huh huh,

Cool