Recommend me a good RPM distro

Well, I'm looking for a good RPM distro to take for a spin.
All I want is something with a Live CD, good docs, easy support for my hardware(see sig).
I lik Mandriva, but I want to see if anyone knows any more good ones(besides Fedora and Mandriva).

 

OpenSUSE.
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Thought about it, any others?
I want something out-of-the-box.

 

FreeBSD, Slackware, Red Hat...damn, I can't think of any others. Why do you want RPM package management anyway? Just b/c you're familiar with it?

 

No, I'm looking for something different, an RPM is something I haven't tried much of.

 

I think if you want to try something out you should go somewhere where no one as gone before, try out opensolaris and come back with your experiences with it Not sure if it has a live cd though.

CentOS is a rpm distro but I don't think they have a live cd either, not to mention they install off a dvd. They are just like Red Hat except they changed the artwork. Not sure what they keep different from Fedora, SUSE.

But to tell the truth I don't see to much of a difference between distros once you've used Gnome, KDE, and however many other desktop GUIs are out there.

 

Well, I'm installing PC BSD this summer, and belenix too.
Right now though, I guess my main priority is my very own custom distro I made

 

Suse is out of the box. They also have a live version.
I would recommend waiting for a month, SUSE 11.0 will be released next month.

 

Wow, I can't believe no one has recommended the RPM distro of RPM distros:

PCLinuxOS

That should fit the bill nicely. If you are going to install it on your hardware, I recommend going with the MiniMe version, since it has more current packages. If you are just going to run it from the LiveCD use the 2007 version since it has more packages loaded by default.

 

Ahh, I know of PCLinux OS, I have a distro(of my own) vased off of PCLinuxOS.

 

PCLOS, being based on Debian, uses Debian packages with the APT package manager.

 

I don't know whether to laugh hysterically or cry. :')

PCLinuxOS is not Debian based and does not use Debian packages. It does use Synaptic, which is probably why you are confused. But, it is RPM based to the core. See here for more info:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PCLinuxOS

 

Really? I thought it was .rpm all this time.
EDIT: It is RPM

 

So, PCLinuxOS uses apt-get with a Synaptic GUI frontend from Debian but with rpms, not debs and it's named apt-rpm, right?

 

Somehow, yes, It does use RPM.

 

Yes. If you have used Synaptic on a Debian based distro, you will fell right at home in PCLinuxOS. A nice thing about PCLinuxOS is that you don't have to reinstall every 6 months or so, "when the new version arrives". PCLinuxOS is a "rolling release", which means that as long as you keep installing the updates you will always have the latest and greatest.

PCLinuxOS, like all other distros, is a combination of tools and features from different sources. For example, the PCLinuxOS maintainers have taken Mandriva's Control Center, widely regarded as the best collection of system tools in the Linux world, and adapted it to their distro. They have taken Synaptic/apt-get, widely regarded as the best package manager in the Linux world, and adapted it to their distro. And so on and so fort. The result is what many regard as the most complete and user friendly distro in the Linux world.

 

PC Linux is an awesome distro, have you seen mine, PC Linux White?

 

Yes, I saw the screen shots. It looks fine, but I am not a Gnome fan. Besides, no offense but the fact that you weren't sure if PCLinuxOS was RPM based or not does not inspire much confidence in you as a maintainer.

 

I know, I thought it was, but then he said debian....And well, synaptic+ some one saying it is debian.....that confuses someone lol.

 

I forgot that PCLOS was diverged from Mandriva. Damn.

 

Well, for me the classic RPM distro would be either the RHEL - its paid though (updates, support), so you can go with e.g. CentOS (recompiled RHEL). Or go with fedora core 9.
I use on my R61 CentOS 5.1 (work reasons) since i care for RHEL servers, otherwise i'd go with fedora core 9, it'll be stable soon (if not already - havent checked lately).

gl&hf

 

Mandriva Spring for moi, PCLOS's mother distro. Supports newer hardware unlike it's offspring, e.g. intel 4965 OTB