Which version of Linux are you using?

Was curious about what members of this forum are using.

 

Xubuntu 12.04, so I suppose "Other"!

 

In retrospect maybe I should have placed more options. I got the top 10 based on DistroWatch and placed the rest under others .

 

Slackware64 13.37 with a custom 3.3.4 kernel and Enlightenment DR17 as the window manager.

 

I'm almost always in the Ubuntu/Debian/Mint neighborhood because I'm used to them and don't have much time for distro hopping anymore. There are a lot of great distros though.

 

I Use Arch for my main linux os, Debian for servers, and ubuntu on my netbook (but i think i might change that to arch as well)

 

Arch for the last couple of months. Hopefully I won't have to hop again. This seems to be where most distrohoppers end up.

However, if I ever ran a server I'd use Debian or Ubuntu Server.

 

What ever happened to Gentoo?

 

the performance gains became negligible on more modern hardware. gentoo is a niche distro, at this point. i'm pretty sure arch picked up a lot of the gentoo/slackware refugees that wanted minimal systems minus the compiling. i'm a fan of gentoo, however. i just like the way it's layed out, portage is brilliant, and it just all makes sense.

but, right now, i'm running ubuntu 12.04 with xfce on my macbook air. probably going to switch to sabayon soon, because i just prefer the gentoo culture.

12.04 is brilliant, though. best ubuntu i've used in 4 years.

 

I have PCLOS - KDE on my laptop and PCLOS - LXDE on an older desktop. Both are solid and stable. Running Ubuntu 12.04 in vbox and like it, but not enough to get me to switch.

 

you know you can run both at the same time pacman can be installed on Gentoo and install all the arch system still using Gentoo as the base and for packages you want to compile. you know just for the hell of it.

 

I use SalineOS which is debian stable w/ xfce. (Debian 6.0 Squeeze)
my alternate choice is PCLOS KDE.

 

Fedora 16 + KDE 4.8...

 

Thinking of moving to scienticfic linux (RHEL)

 

A couple months ago I'd have answered Debian. But now? Well I've moved on to FreeBSD.

I still like Debian for some things, but I'm glad to be back to using FreeBSD.

 

I just upgraded to Pangolin the other day. It's running smoothly so far.

 

#!....crunchbang

 

does freeBSD if so, I have a freenas server

 

Sooo... Debian?

 

Ubuntu 12.04 with 3.3.4 kernel.

 

Was using Slackware exclusively until I got the urge to try FreeBSD. Now, it's FreeBSD and OpenBSD. I do use Ubuntu for my colo server, though.

 

See signature I guess. Mint Debian Edition is pretty much rocking my old eeepc netbook to the point that I've downgraded the ram and moved it over to my htpc. What the Mint community has done with Debian is really impressive at this point. There are some good reasons to stick with Ubuntu but when you need to conserve resources it's hard to say no to LMDE.

Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity, Cinnamon or Gnome Shell is pretty heavy on the resources it turns out. Gnome Shell scales incredibly well to the television screen however so I'm making it work with 3gb of ram.

I've installed Xubuntu on my primary laptop (MSI) and it works well. I reach up for the hot corner from time to time but honestly I like having the classic style DE for serious work. Xfce 4.8 is a serious improvement on 4.6 and I'm looking forward to 4.10 in the near future (ppa already available).

I've installed vanilla ubuntu 12.04 on my thinkpad but I don't think I'm going to stick with that for much longer. I just don't like Unity even though it is much improved.

 

I used to use ubuntu but it's become a bit bloaty and unity ui put me off big time. I know you can just install another shell, but i thought i'd try a red hat based linux and i love fedora

 

Hey... Has anyone noticed that when you add up the poll results it comes out to 146.66%!!!

 

^ ^ The servers are having issues today.

 

CentOS on my computer at work, my Dell XPS is dual-booting Arch Linux and Ubuntu, my Acer is running Ubuntu.

 

Thanks all.

@steve

Multiple ansers are allowed. Basically it means several users answered more than one choice.

 

Dual boot Win7 x64 / Arch x64 on my ancient 6910p. I switch between xubuntu/KDE/Enlightenment DEs on a whim. KDE surprisingly is pretty snappy using the opensource radeon drivers. However, CPU temps idle ~10C higher on Arch than Win7.

 

Backtrack 5R2

 

Been trying linux mint too, v12 is very nice with the gnome 3 shell.

 

Debian squeeze for 100% of my servers, but I wouldn't be opposed to going back to ubuntu...although the unity change pissed me off.

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using mint 12 upgraded to 13 with the cinnamon interface. Its very nice

running that on an old laptop just fine too.


LM13 on 550Mbps OCZ SSD in my desktop pc boots the entire o/s and everything else in 3 seconds flat
unbelievable performance, just need a native steam client and some more development focus to get everything a wee bit easier (something like an easy .exe program setup system) and a lot of people will move over if shown the light, and given a bit of patience i don't think many would go to windows 8 instead.

its not perfect, but it does some things so well to begin with, i scratch my head as to why a multi-billion dollar o/s cant do the same.

 

I am currently using Mint and Fedora. I can't stand Unity, I think its the dumbest idea since Windows Vista. I find it takes me 2x longer to find what I need with Unity then with a regular KDE or Gnome interface.

Happy with Mint and Fedora

 

I just got my new laptop yesterday, a Samsung 700G7C, and installed Mint 13 Cinammon. I usually run Kde but Cinammon is working fine so far so I'll see how I get on with it while I'm waiting for the Kde edition to be released (can't be bothered installing it via apt-get and mixing up two desktops). I thought linux might have loads of problems with this laptop model but it's picked up nearly everything perfectly.

 

This one sounds pretty awesome Is Arch still using unsigned packages? I haven't checked in quite a while.

The rest of the numbers are pretty much expected

 

debian, with kde 4

 

I'm using Xubuntu again on my small laptop now, updated to xfce 4.10...I think this time they got it right

 

BackTrack 5 R2

 

Arch Linux + Debian testing

 

Native:

Ubuntu (with KDE as well as Gnome)
Debian

and under VM:

Ubuntu (this time with Unity - not to my taste)
Kubuntu (KDE is looking better and better)
openSUSE (KDE again)

 

Can I ask how well the AMD Linux drivers are working for you with the 7970M? And are you using the Catalyst drivers or the open-source ones? I'm currently considering the exact model you have listed in your sig, but only if I can get Linux working on it. I don't even care about the level of performance or power consumption (I'll dual-boot for games if I have to), just that I can get an image to display on the screen and that the system is relatively stable. Bonus points if an external monitor works properly (either in clamshell or extended desktop mode).

 

Couldn't agree more! Unity is the vista of linux.

Mint and Fedora are both great distros, I use mint myself. :-D

Have you had any problems with your new hardware on either distro?

 

I was using mint and fedora on another laptop. Will install both if a couple of days and report back.

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Using Debian Wheezy with openbox and trying out MATE. Can't seem to find a DE that i really like though

 

So far Linux Mint 13 (MATE) runs perfectly fine on my machine.

I just can't remember the command to improve battery life. I'm drawning a blank...

 

what kind of distro do you like? fancy? stable? cutting edge? lightweight?

 

Roken could this be the command?
Improving Battery Life on Linux Mint by 50% « Open Daily
~~ Sungman what machine and specs are you running linux on?

 

Ubuntu 12.04 64bit here, chrome is acting so strange lately that I need to use firefox ....

 

Runnng Mint Linux 10.3 Cinnamon on my HP. Seems to be working great thus far.

 

Ubuntu pre-Unity, Mint post-unity... But I think I will be installing Mageia on the side, just wondering why it is so popular in DistroWatch