Topic: Linux Distro of Choice? (Read 9333 times)

Crystalmonkey · « **on:** June 15, 2005, 03:35:34 PM »

Alright guys I hate to ask a tech question given all the people lately but I'm going to anyway.

I'm going to put linux on a spare machine that I have and as I don't need it to run games I figured it might be good getting a little experiance with some form of Linux. The question I have is which distro should I use? I know there are a billion of them and it varies from person to person, but how about the most supported? The one with the most drivers available? Where might these drivers be?

Thanks,
Your friendly neighborhood monkey made of crystal

Demosthenes · « **Reply #1 on:** June 15, 2005, 04:03:44 PM »

I've used Red Hat, and an old version of Mandrake, but the distro I've had the best luck with (by far) has been Slackware.

I'm currently running it (Slackware 10.1) on my AMD64 desktop, and on my Toshiba Satellite, and it works great.

hackess · « **Reply #2 on:** June 15, 2005, 04:16:27 PM »

Slack 10.1. So easy to set up, so easy to use.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #3 on:** June 15, 2005, 04:20:49 PM »

And it goes well with just about any side dish. Mashed potatoes, Rice-A-Roni, Stove Top stuffening, vegetables, noodles.

You name it.

hackess · « **Reply #4 on:** June 15, 2005, 05:04:32 PM »

Slices, dices, AND makes Julienne fries!

Demosthenes · « **Reply #5 on:** June 16, 2005, 08:40:21 AM »

It can saw through this aluminum can, and still slice cleanly through this ripe tomato.

reimero · « **Reply #6 on:** June 16, 2005, 10:50:27 AM »

And look! It cleans up so easily!

Crystalmonkey · « **Reply #7 on:** June 16, 2005, 10:53:44 AM »

It can cut through armor, and still cut a tomato!

Demosthenes · « **Reply #8 on:** June 16, 2005, 11:45:08 AM »

Quote from: Crystalmonkey

It can cut through armor, and still cut a tomato!

Well let's not get ridiculous here.

Crystalmonkey · « **Reply #9 on:** June 16, 2005, 12:15:15 PM »

Quote from: Demosthenes

Quote from: Crystalmonkey
It can cut through armor, and still cut a tomato!

Well let's not get ridiculous here.

Warcraft 3 line, very funny game (if you look anyway).

Scuzzy · « **Reply #10 on:** June 17, 2005, 06:45:33 PM »

Is gentoo any good? I've been thinking about setting it up on my secondary hard drive. *was going to put a relevant tech question in here but decided against it*

Demosthenes · « **Reply #11 on:** June 17, 2005, 07:10:19 PM »

Never tried gentoo... though I heard it's a bitch to set up by comparison to other distros. Everything is compiled specifically for the machine on which you install it.

Seems like too much work, but if you're into that kind of thing, the end result is a very fast, stable environment.

doomtroll · « **Reply #12 on:** June 22, 2005, 09:35:05 PM »

I use SuSe 9.1 Pro & Salckware 10

Demosthenes · « **Reply #13 on:** June 23, 2005, 08:43:35 AM »

Dual boot? Or on different b0xx3s?

EDIT: Whoops, never mind... just read your post in the setup thread.

And did you get the Salckware from http://www.salkcware.com?

doomtroll · « **Reply #14 on:** June 24, 2005, 07:05:44 AM »

Quote from: Demosthenes

Dual boot? Or on different b0xx3s?

EDIT: Whoops, never mind... just read your post in the setup thread.

And did you get the Salckware from http://www.salkcware.com?

OOPS

note to self..posting with dangerously low levels of caffine causes poor grammer

xolik · « **Reply #15 on:** June 24, 2005, 10:36:55 AM »

Quote from: doomtroll

note to self..posting with dangerously low levels of caffine causes poor grammer

You mean 'grammar' don't you?

In before catwritr.

hackess · « **Reply #16 on:** June 24, 2005, 10:46:24 AM »

Quote from: xolik

Quote from: doomtroll

note to self..posting with dangerously low levels of caffine causes poor grammer

You mean 'grammar' don't you?

In before catwritr.

dieplzkthx.

Demosthenes · « **Reply #17 on:** June 24, 2005, 01:59:07 PM »

Zing!

Fuse · « **Reply #18 on:** July 07, 2005, 03:51:21 PM »

Slack and FreeBSD have been my favs, though I have limited experience with both. =(

When I need a nix kick I use KnoppixSTD; bootable from CD, with all the nice little dark programs you may need.

uebergeekess · « **Reply #19 on:** July 10, 2005, 11:16:06 PM »

i'm going to install ubuntu on my pc soon

Demosthenes · « **Reply #20 on:** July 11, 2005, 08:16:12 AM »

I keep hearing about Ubuntu... but nobody has yet been able to tell me what's so great about it.

Anyone got any good clarifications on why it's suddenly so popular?

uebergeekess · « **Reply #21 on:** July 11, 2005, 11:01:02 AM »

i like the name...but other htan that i don't know anything about it....which is why i'm gonna put it on my pc and check it out....theres also kubunbu

doomtroll · « **Reply #22 on:** July 13, 2005, 06:10:58 PM »

its official..I have been converted...I downloaded the .iso for Vector Linux (based on Slackware) and have been running it for about a week now..

this is one wicked fast OS...and this is on older hardware...

Vector Linux Officially ROCKS!!!!!

Demosthenes · « **Reply #23 on:** July 13, 2005, 09:53:42 PM »

Sweet.

Give us a review. Details, man!

What's your hardware? How was the install process? What was it like? What did you do for partitioning? What window manager are you using (if any)?

doomtroll · « **Reply #24 on:** July 16, 2005, 07:39:38 AM »

Quote from: Demosthenes

Sweet.

Give us a review. Details, man!

What's your hardware? How was the install process? What was it like? What did you do for partitioning? What window manager are you using (if any)?

the install was very similar to Slackware yet slimmed down a bit (based off of slackware 9.1)

Partitions were from a previous install

swap - 512mb
/ - 1.5 gigs
/home 7.988 gigs

hardware I installed it on

AMD K6-2 400MHZ
256MB ram
10GB hd
Geforce2 video
SBLive Audio
CD-ROM

it comes with 3 GUIs..XFCE4, Fluxbox, & IceWM

I seem to use IceWM the most since I haven't used it before..and was very impressed with it. Vector Also doesn't have all sorts of packages installed by default..its pretty slimmed down, which is good for older hardware.

I'm still tinkering with it so I don't have alot more to add as of yet...but the overall experiance has been good

http://www.vectorlinux.com/

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