Distro of Choice Poll at Linux Journal...

http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/which-linux-distribution-do-you-use-most-frequently-0

anything look odd to anyone?

 

mmm..well either ubuntu is up top..of course! hehe
or that there is no opensuse listed...??
which i mention b/c that's what u are using...lol

 

SuSe is on the list.

 

ahh ok..nvm i see it now..i just saw Novell..my bad. /facepalm
LOL!

 

What's is really odd is Novell/Suse at 11% and Arch at 8%.....what's that tell ya?

lol

 

LOL..now J..don't be bashing the archers..LOL..to each their own!

 

I was replying to 1ceblu3. Red Hat is somewhat low. Besides that, I didn't see anything odd on this list.

 

he knowz.I think he was just stating the fact of opensuse vs arch..
that's him trying to be funny btw..LOlz

 

nooooooo....I could very well be one, one day.....lol

 

yea yea..u could be lots of things one day..doesn't mean its gonna happen with ya :tongue: well maybe..when your novell goes under!
http://www.itwire.com/opinion-and-a...the-last-days-of-novell-as-we-know-it?start=1
LOL!! jk

 

My pet lizard and I will just walk off into the sunset......lol

 

yes..while u are draggin him along with yer cane! :tongue:
that k..i like yer pet lizard..he's very friendly
nah..u'll just have to switch to ubuntuz

wow..where did this thread just go...LOL.
quite off topic

 

Yast is really outdated. I just tried opensuse last week. The package management doesn't even prevent conflicting packages to be installed.

 

Nothing surprising about this poll. *buntu is gaining new users every year. I'm glad for it, because it sucks new users mostly from MS platform, not from other distros ...
Btw., Their poll is not completely relevant as there is no 'Red Hat' distro in development for couple of years - it broke to Fedora and! RHEL (red hat enterprise linux) so long ago, so that i don't even remember ....
Btw ...

Zoid, You are such a romantic person .... yeah and me too love your skinny pettie!! :-DDD

 

Problem with suse initially is you have to grasp the repo's, the correct ones to have, and switch out the system packages, undo a couple of repos, then it all works great,,,multimedia and all. If you don't, some packages will keep changing ownership (conflicts)...but, however, nothing will break nevertheless....it's rock solid. But once you get used to this, it really doesn't require much forethought.

 

Imho, the best distros are the Debian-based ones. Is it any wonder that there are a lot of derivative ones. I do like Fedora, though. Red Hat does a lot of work that makes it way to the kernel and other contributions. Fedora is different and has problems but it's bleeding edge and therefore, experimental by design. I'm not sure what to make of yum and the updates feature, though. Yet, I usually have one partition with Fedora on my drive.

My top three is 1) Debian 2) Ubuntu (mostly because it's easy for me to go to; and 3) Fedora.

Honorary mention to Mandriva. I haven't used it as an installed system, yet, though. It receives no love. I think it's miles better than the overhyped OpenSUSE. Open? Yeah, right. It's a business distro and has a connection to Microsoft. I do hope if Novell sells, it's not to Mr.Gates' team.

 

Yellow Dog has a strong 0%!!!!!!!! ROFL.

 

Mandriva is absolutely wonderful until you try to install something or update something. After that it's absolute hell. Also the default application list sucks, OpenSuSE is miles ahead of it. So is Fedora.

 

Hmmmm.....says you. You installed and used it or just going based on someone else?

 

Yes, used it several times. Was my main OS for a month or so.

 

Says me too......

 

Precisely....

 

I tried Mandriva and OpenSUSE on my old laptop not too long ago. Everything worked out of the box with Mandriva. When I tried to do the same in OpenSUSE with 3D on, I got a hard crash and a black screen. Me thinks it's way overated and your enthusiasm is proof. They use a lot of marketing and investment yet a company that probably has less than half the resources (Mandriva) seems no worse and probably in many cases, better. Relatively speaking...

 

Hehe

The thing is we have actually tried both of these distributions and both have a rather extensive list of distributions we have tried. We have both used Mandriva, and we have both used OpenSuSE(theZoid uses it currently in fact). I loved Mandriva, but the package management is absolute crap, and you can ask others the same question. I also believe theZoid has used Mandriva a few times as well. And one thing you have to get straight is that OpenSuSE *is* a community distribution while Mandriva is...not so much.

 

It looks like community project to me.

http://wiki.mandriva.com/en/Manifesto

 

That is not a fair comparison. OpenSUSE can pour money into their distro with Novell behind them while Mandriva, while no slouch, doesn't have the same sort of resources. Yet, every review I have read including some that compare the two, end up preferring Mandriva since it doesn't seem as slow or resource-hungry. Yeah, both package managers probably suck but that's because APT is still the best. I didn't mind Yum, though. RPM has caught up but the package managers in rpm-based distros haven't fully.

I am more familiar with apt and Debian so I haven't been distro hopping much. Although, I have Fedora installed on a partition.

 

Of course it is, I just said it isn't as much as other distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSuSE, etc. Mandriva has a much smaller community, and most of it's developers are paid. There is an obvious reason Mandriva is not first or second or even third on distrowatch.

 

OpenSuSE has very nice package management, I love zypper(and I started with apt on ubuntu), You say it's not a fair comparison but neither is Windows compared to linux - people will do that anyways, it's not excuse. Mandriva is great, don't get me wrong. Just don't expect to be able to install or update anything. I've used every release since 2008.0 and it hasn't improved. APT is hardly the best, it may be the way you are used to, that will always seem better. I'm not saying APT is crap, so don't say I hate APT or whatever.

 

Ask other users whether they prefer YAST or APT-GET. See what results you get.

I am not interested in the debate, though. I just don't think you'll get a preference for Yast... Of course, YMMV, as everyone has their preferences. Yes, you are right though....FOR ME, I probably prefer it based on my familiarity but I have read of other Linux users who have tried both.

 

Well yes, everyone has their own opinion and can use what they like But if you knew anything about it, you would know it's not called YAST. Yast may be used as a frontend but the backend is called ZYPPER, just like Synaptic with APT.

 

Not any more....that's exactly why I started using openSUSE in my business.

 

as far as being familiar with one its apt-get...as i am a ubuntu user the most
though am willing to try anything when it comes to linux.
speaking of distros..i'm trying the Elive..and sabayon..as well as pc/os, the new pclinuxos release and going to be checking out fedora 12.

 

I remember Mandriva 2008.0, I really liked it, package management wasn't the best but it worked fine. Since then however Fedora or OpenSuSE pretty much kill Mandriva.

 

Really....they've left Mandriva in the dust....I used to be a Mandriva user a couple years ago....rather go PCLOS these days as 2010 seems pretty solid.

 

Yeah, I haven't tried PCLOS 2010, but I know 2009 was much better than Mandriva, though I didn't really like it as much as I liked OpenSuSE and Fedora's latest releases.

 

i'll be trying pclinuxos right after i go through sabayon that last time i tried a version of pclinuxos was 05..but 2010 looks good to try, after that the new fedora release..what i'm waiting for is the ubuntu 10.04 LTS
have never tried mandriva..mmm...

 

Yeah, I'll be looking forward to 10.04 as well.

 

That's a big 10-4 there Thomas....err, I mean, affirmative or something like that, sorry for the lame play on numbers....

 

LOL..always the witty one

 

LOL, I haven't even noticed that one.

 

I forgot to mention Novell's support for the KDE project.....Novell=KDE

http://linuxcrunch.com/content/opensuse-112-perfect-kde-distribution

 

OpenSuSE has always been one of the best KDE distros.

 

Gnome looks better.

 

Hardly, besides, the appearances are what you make it.

 

Arch!

Cmon, be men and configure your own

 

LOL

 

Or be *the* men and take something that makes it hard to customize and customize it anyways! BATTLE! That is a real man. *THE* man.