Best Linux OS?

[Sting]

What is your favorite Linux OS?

cant really decide on one... looking for suggestions plz

thanks :nervous:

[NTLDR]

Depends what your looking for, if you want to learn stuff then checkout Gentoo (http://www.gentoo.org), or if you'd rather have everything done for you check out Mandrake (http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en-gb/).

[Christine]

If you are on a dual proc machine, I would shy away from RHEL 3 right now until they get the hyper-threading issues worked out.

[Dark Shogun]

But which Linux OS is as easy to use as windows and has good software support?

Dark Shogun

[Wonko of Shinra]

For ease of use, you're left with madrake, redhat, fedora, and suse.

If you're a power user, Debian, Gentoo, and Slackware.


I use gentoo cause I like rolling my own

And if I could have my way, my forum would be run off of Gentoo as well.

[Thomas P]

ACK on Wonko, for desktops RedHat or Suse and for servers RedHat or Debian - my favorites.

[colicab-d]

the only reason i dont run a full fedora machines is that like most folk i enjoy gaming, plus it wont run adoe products even in WINE etc as far as i know

[Wonko of Shinra]

Originally Posted by Thomas P

ACK on Wonko, for desktops RedHat or Suse and for servers RedHat or Debian - my favorites.

Thomas, rpms t3h sux :P, you hit about 10billion dependancies if you ever want to install an rpm on your own. it's slow, annoying, and pointless. Portage makes life much easier with the ability for extreme custimization.
I used redhat as I was starting out on linux for 2 years, it was nice, did everythign for you, but back in 7.x it still left some room for cli configuration, when 8 came out, I installed it, was disgusted, and moved on. Gentoo just gave me much more flexability. plus why would I want to sit around waiting for precompiled releases of programs when I can just grab the source and use my own cflags to make it run faster for my architecture?