What Flavour do you use

syngindub

Ubuntu user myself
Partner uses Linux Mint.

ntlbell

FreeBSD mostly.

jetski

I hate when people say what flavour when talking about linux

syngindub

whats wrong with saying flavour?

ntlbell

syngindub wrote: »

whats wrong with saying flavour?

Why is there no choice for any unices?

this is the unix forum

syngindub

ntlbell wrote: »

Why is there no choice for any unices?

this is the unix forum

good point..i hate unices though. that's more for work..ughh

syngindub

can you edit a poll?

Creamy Goodness

Only mods can afaik

Work/college: solaris 8 / solaris 10

Home: mac OSX / ubuntu 8.10

Kinetic^

Ubuntu on server, Crunchbang on netbook.

syngindub

crunchbang, never heard of it. any use.

Has anyone attempted an install of Jaunty Beta yet?
Think there's an RC available in March so might wait till then

PogMoThoin

Ubuntu on this pc, Mint on another, Ubuntu server on home server and Easy Peasy (formerly Ubuntu eee) on eeePC

Oh ya, and XBMC on original Xbox

Kinetic^

syngindub wrote: »

crunchbang, never heard of it. any use.

I'm using the netbook distro of Crunchbang, tis decent.

duffman85

Linux Mint 6 on both laptop and desktop.

Blowfish

Ubuntu on Desktop, Fedora for server/storage, OpenBSD for the firewall, Knoppix on Laptop with dodgy HDD.

An Fear Aniar

Ubuntu is my main one, also dabbling with Arch + Xfce.


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Tillotson

Arch on main and debian etch on server..
2 more days till I get to install Lenny.. crossfingers :rolleyes:

eightcell

Fedora both in work and at home.

CJackson

Currently running Ubuntu at home. Tried putting Mint in an old HDD out of curiosity but made a pigs ear of it:mad:

Must try Crunchbang instead

Anyone know the name of this theme ??
http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/_detail/screenshots/crunchbang-linux-firefox-web-browser-8.10.01.png

ethernet

Not a multiple-choice poll for us distro-hopping strumpets! :pac:

Kinetic^

CJackson wrote: »

Anyone know the name of this theme ??
http://crunchbanglinux.org/wiki/_detail/screenshots/crunchbang-linux-firefox-web-browser-8.10.01.png

That's how firefox looks in Crunchbang. The app on the right is called Conky and is a great system monitor while using minimum resources. See here. You'll need some extra fonts if you want the weather part of it to work properly, which I can send to you if you go down that road. Check out my post here to see what my conky looks like. I found the app itself straightforward to manipulate and also the startup options and menus in CB.

Rambo

Red Hat in work
being using it since 1999 on my desktop
version is Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 server

ethernet

openSUSE/Fedora dual boot at home.

Mixture of HP-UX (shudder), Fedora Core 4 (I know), Gentoo and Ubuntu at college.

syngindub

ethernet wrote: »

Not a multiple-choice poll for us distro-hopping strumpets! :pac:

ye, thought of this after creating the poll. Only mods can edit a poll though.

Khannie

I actually use 3 distros atm. Gentoo x 2 at home. xubuntu on an old laptop and ubuntu on my machine in work.

syngindub

xubuntu being ubuntu with all software being open source as apposed to proprietry drivers. is that right?

Dartz

Xubuntu is Ubuntu with an alternate desktop environment. nothing more. In the backend of it, there's little difference with regards to proprietary drivers and the like.

Xubuntu uses the Xfce environment, not GNOME like Ubuntu, or KDE4.odd like Kubuntu.

deRanged

I shifted all my server room machines to CentOS over the last few months.

I don't actually have any *nix machines on my desktop - at home or work!

It might be useful if people said why they chose that particular OS/distro. I wanted a stable rpm based distro, with enterprise like upgrade cycles.

syngindub

deRanged wrote: »

I shifted all my server room machines to CentOS over the last few months.

I don't actually have any *nix machines on my desktop - at home or work!

It might be useful if people said why they chose that particular OS/distro. I wanted a stable rpm based distro, with enterprise like upgrade cycles.

i chose ubuntu because i like the update manager, package manager and Dell laptop works well with the distro. I used to distro hop a lot but got fed up doing this. maybe it's time for a change. Also chose ubuntu because i was just beginning with Linux at the time and ubuntuforums is a great forum / utility. Even though ubuntu is great for a newbie it's Linux at the end of the day so works like any other distro. Also use openSuse in work as i can install Oracle on it. Use HPUX in work also. Not my decision .. by the way, has anyone had success installing Oracle on other Linux distros, i know there is a Novell Distro but not interested in that

Khannie

deRanged wrote: »

It might be useful if people said why they chose that particular OS/distro.

Good idea:

Gentoo for speed for me. I wanted performance from the two machines it's installed on. Also was a great learning experience.

Ubuntu on the work machine: Convenience. There's just no messing with it.

Xubuntu: The laptop was a bit old. Runs quite snappy with xubuntu installed. I think it's a nice tradeoff between performance and features for older machines.

Orion

Similar to the DE thread I use different flavours for different things. I voted for Ubuntu because that's what I have on my main pc - and as it happens the other ones I currently use are all forks of Ubuntu - only semi-coincidence. HTPC is Mythbuntu, laptop was Mint but is now Ubuntu (but planning on switching that to Fedora soon and netbook is Cruncheee.

In answer to syngindub Cruncheee (Crunchbang) is excellent on a netbook. Low ram/cpu footprint. Very fast (much faster than the default Asus sesame street distro or Ubuntueee). And the Openbox DE is perfect for a netbook imo.

Creamy Goodness

add the reasons:

Work: Solaris 8 - speed and tools dependent and compatibility.

College: Solaris 10 - brand new sunray 270's

Home: mac osx - got it with my laptop,

Home: ubuntu 8.10 - ease of development with Gtk compared to others imo.

unknownlegend

work: z/OS
home: slackware, freeBSD

Orion

Macros42 wrote: »

Similar to the DE thread I use different flavours for different things. I voted for Ubuntu because that's what I have on my main pc - and as it happens the other ones I currently use are all forks of Ubuntu - only semi-coincidence. HTPC is Mythbuntu, laptop was Mint but is now Ubuntu (but planning on switching that to Fedora soon and netbook is Cruncheee.

In answer to syngindub Cruncheee (Crunchbang) is excellent on a netbook. Low ram/cpu footprint. Very fast (much faster than the default Asus sesame street distro or Ubuntueee). And the Openbox DE is perfect for a netbook imo.

I didn't give reasons did I
Ubuntu on main machine - quite simple really - I made the switch to Linux nearly 2 years ago and Ubuntu was the one I went with because of the simplicity and community support. I haven't felt the need to change since. While I know a hell of a lot more now than I did then I still like the Debian base. I no longer accept Ubuntu's defaults as gospel (e.g. first thing I do is remove its bugged OO and install the latest from OO.org) but it's a good stable distro.

Mythbuntu - obvious choice for a HTPC unless you want XPMC. I will warn against the 64 bit version tho - have had trouble with it - 32bit ftw.

Mint I went for because I'd heard good things about it - not the media aspect (it's not that hard to do sudo apt-get install ubuntu-restricted-extras :P) but the interface. I actually hated it tho. So back to Ubuntu on the lappy when Intrepid was released.

dubhthach

At home:

dubh@lugh:~$ uname -a
SunOS lugh 5.11 snv_106 i86pc i386 i86pc
dubh@lugh:~$ cat /etc/release
OpenSolaris 2009.06 snv_106 X86
Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc. All Rights Reserved.
Use is subject to license terms.
Assembled 28 January 2009

I've got an old SGI back in Galway running IRIX 6.5.25m

Stuxnet

new myself to this linux world, at home with a busted leg so i said i'd give it a whirl while i have the time, i know nothing about command or any of that stuff, so idecided to go with kubuntu 8.10, has the latest kde, must say its fairly easy to mess around with, any help i need i usually find in a quick google, i cant see it replacing my vista, but its nice to have the option to play with compiz and etc, lovely desktop effects

Naikon

Just moved over to Debian Lenny from Arch Linux.
Lenny has so far been a very nice stable release.

Arch is nice.....but I got a little annoyed when a -Syu left the system unable to boot.
Had to reinstate the ncurses libraries manually from a chroot so it could boot again:rolleyes:
The rolling release system isn't stable enough for my liking.

Lenny + dwm + slim = teh win!!!

Epic Tissue

Voted Ubuntu but I just installed Mint