Linux thread...

[Guy Fawkes]

I'll admit it; I've used linux. Currently, I enjoy Knoppix, but I've been looking at Gen2 and Morphix. Anyone here use either one? Comments on them?

(Ps. don't tell me to use Red Hat or SuSe...)

[qwertyMike]

1. Knoppix rocks!

Heard good stuff about Mandrake.

[disgruntled_goat]

2. Debian

I been running Linux onn and off since circa '95.
I really like the Debian distribution, and run it on all my boxen; an ibm laptop, homemade desktop, and on my firewall, which is a whole different architecture. Debian's 'apt-get' device is golden goodness.

I liked knoppix. There's something similar out, a live-cd linux filesystem, but it's optimized for multimedia use. do a google for Dynebolic Linux distro if you want more.

my $0.02
d_g

[Renew Deal]

3. Red Hat and Suse for me.

I have used both. I like both, but I still prefer Windows or Apple's OSX. OS X is the best Unix interface/OS available.

[Rabrrrrrr]

4. alright, just to get you prepared for the flame fest,

I'll do it first, because someone else is gonna say this and be serious about it:

"Linux users are elitist scum; you're all a bunch of geeks, and assholes, to boot, and probably play role playing games and live with your mothers; you don't use linux unless you have such a self-esteem problem that you have to look "smarter" than us poor, ignorant, filthy windows users."

I don't know why, but there is a vocal anti-linux (actually, not so much anti-Linux, as adamantly anti-linux-USERS) group here at DU who feel the need to speak out every opportunity they get.

Just wanted you to hear it from me first...

AndI can't help you out at all, I'm a Red Hat user. And using a version from, I think, four years ago. :-) Though you know, it might actually be Caldera...hmmm...can't remember. Anyway, it's old, and I'm no help to you at all.

[Guy Fawkes]

5. Wierd Al's "Microsoft Christmass" end of story, eom

[kalian]

6. Knoppix is great...very useful

At work we're using Mandrake 10 and Red Hat. We're looking into
Xandros 2.0 for non-power user desktop use.
And...for the truly geeky...Gentoo for exclusive server use. :toast:

[mike_c]

7. if you like Knoppix...

...why not either do a Knoppix hard drive install or just install Debian Sarge, the distro that Knoppix is built with?

My personal feeling is that both Redhat (now Fedora) and especially SuSE are bloated-- of course, you can fix that with a custom installation and a kernel recompilation. On the other hand, Fedora Core 2 has just been released and it includes the 2.6 kernel, so it might be a good option if you want something that (probably) works pretty well right out of the box and with the latest major kernel rev. I'm going to try it any day now on one of my computers that is currently running Fedora Core 1 and was otherwise slated for a Debian install.

on edit: regarding SuSE-- I'm running SuSE 8.2 on one of my office computers-- it was installed by our IT folks when I bought the computer and is the "official" institutional supported Linux, but it's days are numbered. As soon as I get a chance I'm replacing it with Debian Sarge. I REALLY dislike SuSE's distribution policies, and won't upgrade to the latest 9.x version.

[ACK]

9. Good advice from mike_c

If you like Knoppix do the hard drive install.

Don't hop distros too much as a home user. Stick with something unless you have a driving need to switch to something else.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

8. Mandrake 10.0 Official Edition here...

Blithely happy. Blithely.