Distro allegiances

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riddlermarc

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Do you have a particular allegiance to a specific distribution? I have always been a RedHat man, ever since the 6.0 days (1999) and try as I might to give others a decent shot (I'm writing this from a fresh Ubuntu 6.06 install) I can't get RH/Fedora out of my head.. especially with the release of FC6. It's d/ling now and as soon as it is burned to dvd I will blitz this install, much as I don't want to 'cause I have it looking/running really nice now:



Over the past couple of years I have tried Suse, Mandrake, Slackware, FreeBSD but the old homing beacon still kicks in for some Fedora action. It's sort of like your first love, you always have a soft spot for them even if there seem to be "better" ones around..

Do you have an allegiance to a distro, and if so why (if at all)?
 
I've always had a soft spot for SuSE, mainly because it was the first distro I tried. Ubuntu is my current favourite, mainly because of the hardware support.

Thanks for the heads up on FC6 though, I really like that one as well and will also blitz my current 6.10 Ubuntu install for that, just for the fun of it. :)
 
Been using redhat/fedora since the 6.x days, having tried most of the other distro's ive always come back to fedora, im just use to how it works, though i'am downloading ubuntu right this minute, i'll probably give it a go for a couple of days then just revert back to fedora!
 
For me it has mainly been debian based distros. I agree with their debian philosophy and think the package management is much better than RPM based distros.

For me its been debian -> gentoo -> archlinux, with bits of trying ubuntu to see what all the buzz is about :p
 
Redhat for me, Fedora and CentOS, started with them a couple of years ago, never really got on with anything else I've tried.

Occasionally use ubuntu on the work laptops and get frustrated at little niggles not being what I'm used to (I'm looking at you, ll).

Once I've downloaded Core 6 its going on my other partition, nice test of my newly upgraded 6Mb line :).
 
Maybe it's time for a new poll ;)

Gentoo for me because, even though I'm not really in control in a lot of ways, I enjoy how customisable it is and how easy portage is (after the relatively long and, more in the past, sometimes painful install process compared to Ubuntu, Suse etc). I guess if I wasn't using Gentoo I'd being building mecano sets, lego, car engines or whatever - it just appeals to me, the chance to play with different configurations (USE flags etc) even if the performance gain over other distros is zero (or relatively big but offset by compile times), it's fun :)
 
I started with Red Hat and abandoned them when theyrestructured with the Fedora releases. Then I found SuSE and really liked it. I still have a large soft spot for them. Recently I've moved to Ubuntu which I recommend highly.

But I keep wanting to try SuSE again. I just like the way they did things.
 
I use gentoo out of choice, because that's what I know and like. However, I'm just setting up a production centos box, and although it does things differently, I can see how some of it is much better. Also used debian - would use that on a production box if it were my choice :)
 
Always been a SUSE guy (not openSUSE though) since it was the first distro that I actually bought and used for as an OS and not just to mess around. First distro I used was RedHat which I didn't really care for.

Sometimes boot up Kubuntu but other than that it's always Suse
 
Debian as that was the distro I had used to teach myself about Linux. I'll also use distros that are based on Debian, like Ubuntu on the desktop.

Lately though I've been turning towards SUSE due to my Novell background in IT. If Novell continue the way they are working just now then in a few years time Netware will be ditched for OES (probably Linux based) so I'll need to know some of it to stay in my job.
 
Gentoo is the first distro I've tried that I've actually enjoyed setting up and using. It's a control thing I guess. Once Archlinux gets perhaps a better foothold I might switch.

I've tried all manners of distro's including RH/Fedora, Debian, Slackware, Ubuntu, SuSE and some others I don't care to remember and none appeal to me like Gentoo does, so I will probably stay loyal to that for a while.
 
Well, FC6 lasted all of a half an hour :p I installed it this morning (I have a day off work today) and it still kept giving me the same problems as the test releases. Every so often the windows will lose their focus and you have to Alt-Tab back to use it, even if it's the one you were using already. Plus it just seemed slower and more "Fisher Price" than Ubuntu, something I'd never say! I have to keep this main pc as something remotely user-friendly as the missus uses it too, so Ubuntu has gone back on and it's all up and running within thirty minutes.
 
redhat 5 ( I think) was the last one I used, before that I used slackware for AGES to play with. but my heart belongs to UBUNTU now.
 
A few years ago I loved debian, then I discovered slackware and now regardless of what I try I always end up back on slackware, then soon after doing Linux From Scratch using slack as the host
 
Started off many years ago on RedHat, briefly drifted into FreeBSD (I liked the devil logo :D), toyed with Debian, mandrake, SuSE, then switched to RHEL for serious work (needed the official support). Then started using Debian Testing more seriously at home and at work. Over the last 3 years I've got fed up with the constant breaking of packages which seems to becoming the norm in Testing, so just installed the home machine with Debian Stable, and about to switch to stable for the office.

I'd like to give gentoo a whirl, did try once but didn't have the patience to figure out how the installer works and gave up. Got lots of diehard Debian friends who have switched to Ubuntu over the last 2 years. From what I've seen of it doesn't really float my boat, but maybe I'll change my mind in the coming months.
 
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