Do you run Linux? If so, which distro?

Post by **Lyion** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 7:07 am

Fedora Core 3 on KDE here for my main desktop. I have a server running FreeBSD also.

I've tried Mandrake, SUSE, Gentoo and several other smaller distros, but I think Fedora Core seems the best overall distro.

I'm curious if anyone else runs non windoze systems.

Diekan · Post by **Diekan** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:21 am

I ran Redhat 6.0 for a while, and am using OS X on my iBook.

Redhat was pretty decent. I didn't care for the "work" needed to get it up and fully running though. Other than that it was decent.

Still working with OS X, so don't really have a solid opinion on it yet. However, thus far it seems pretty stable.

Post by **Lyion** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:26 am

The funny thing is Linux, with all the advanced update tools, is extremely easy to get running. There also are a ton of external free applications for it. Many, many more than Windows.

The quirks are the biggest problem with installs, and they are getting fewer and fewer.

I just swapped my Gentoo distro for Fedora Core, and it took me a day to reinstall. Since I never blow away my /home filesystem everything is completely transportable.

Ogru · Post by **Ogru** » Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:17 am

Fedora Core 3 for 3 RADIUS servers, and 3 custom billing sofware packages. 6 servers total.

Parv · Post by **Parv** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 11:51 am

Used to run Slackware back in '97, then moved to Mandrake for a while. Run XP now for the games and specific software, but thiinking about getting an iBook for everyday work. If I ever get a spare computer I might set it up with Mandrake again and go from there.

--Parv

10sun · Post by **10sun** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 12:19 pm

My Linux box which hasn't been booted in 3 years now ran Caldera.

I think they are defunct now however.

-Adam

Darcler · Post by **Darcler** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 12:22 pm

Either Slackware 10.1 or Fedora Core 3 is on Gids comp. Hes looking for one that is very user friendly for me.

Post by **Tossica** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 12:24 pm

I have a Slackware box, a RedHat box and a cute little "Damn Small Linux" cd for kicks. I rarely use any of them.

Tikker · Post by **Tikker** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 4:16 pm

I run my guilds forum, TS server, and eventually a webpage of some sort on a mandrake 10.1 install

It's on a crappy old 233 with 130ish mb ram~

I'm not a fan of linux in anyway, but it works better for this than a windows box atm

all my desktops are running some flavour of XP

Post by **Lyion** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 4:24 pm

My Gentoo box had 400+ days uptime. That was with heavy usage.

I use my PC for more than gaming and surfing, so I'm a big fan of Linux.

I have my souped up XP Pro machine for gaming. Anything that isnt gaming I do on Linux. If I didnt game, I wouldnt even own a Windows machine.

Harrison · Post by **Harrison** » Thu Mar 10, 2005 6:50 pm

I pray for the day linux outdoes windows for gaming...but it's a pipedream

horendus · Post by **horendus** » Fri Mar 11, 2005 10:03 am

Slack back in the day, fedora is tits now tho. Very nice auto-update system, and have had very few problems with dependancies, unlike in the past when there were so many versions of different libs written by different people - good and bad, mostly just frustrating unless you really kept up on it all.

Post by **Gidan** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 12:46 pm

Currently running slackware 10.1. Have tried SuSE, Fedora and gentoo but keep going back to slackware. Slackware is just far easier to screw with and get things working the way I want them to from my experience.

Runs everything great, including WoW and Everquest. In some cases I run them beter under linux then I could under XP.