Poll: The Great OcUK Distro/Derivative Poll III
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sheol
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sheol
Previously tried:
SUSE pretty good.
Debian fine if you like antiquated stability.
Mandrake not too bad at all.
Redhat not to my liking.
FreeBSD Liked as server not as desktop.
However I have been running Gentoo since I installed it about a year ago, and without something dramatic changing now I have found Gentoo I am unlikely to be installing any other distributions.
SUSE pretty good.
Debian fine if you like antiquated stability.
Mandrake not too bad at all.
Redhat not to my liking.
FreeBSD Liked as server not as desktop.
However I have been running Gentoo since I installed it about a year ago, and without something dramatic changing now I have found Gentoo I am unlikely to be installing any other distributions.
IceWindFire
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IceWindFire
Another RedHatter here, sorry guys 
Set up a box (use it as well as my windows box ... KVM switches are cool) with it and its quite nice. Mainly use it for my "joyous" programming assignments at uni
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Set up a box (use it as well as my windows box ... KVM switches are cool) with it and its quite nice. Mainly use it for my "joyous" programming assignments at uni
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Associate
Come on, Mr Mpemba Effect. Where's that new distro poll you promised, eh?
I'm a Gentoo-er now!!
I'm a Gentoo-er now!!
I use Xandros 2
It's great for people like me. People who are just starting out in Linux. Getting 3D acceleration was a little tricky but I did so I am proud of myself.
It takes about 10 mins to install, comes with OpenOffice, Crossover (Deluxe Edition) and Windows Server authentication (Business Edition)
www.xandros.com
Suppose that's a vote for "other"
It's great for people like me. People who are just starting out in Linux. Getting 3D acceleration was a little tricky but I did so I am proud of myself.
It takes about 10 mins to install, comes with OpenOffice, Crossover (Deluxe Edition) and Windows Server authentication (Business Edition)www.xandros.com
Suppose that's a vote for "other"
Associate
I checked Mandrake, for ease of use. Debian for the fact that I like it and Other for OSX
and Other for OSX 
Why on earth is everybody jumping on Gentoo? It's not an insult type question that's meant to be rhetoric, it's a genuine question, because I'm not sure what people are seeing it has advantages over.
What's wrong with Debian? I've been using it for ages with fluxbox, and haven't been happier.
What's wrong with Debian? I've been using it for ages with fluxbox, and haven't been happier.
richard_neil
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richard_neil
Distro's used
I've played with RH, Fedora, Mandrake and Suse over the years and I swear by Smoothwall with three running at work and home beautifully. At the moment I'm working with Suse 9.1 personal at home which looks good having tired of problems with Fedora (quite probably more my problems than Fedora's!).
Have a Fedora running at work providing DNS and Apache (internal use only) on a small Windows network and it's been a little bit of a pig to me as a relative newbie in some ways but on the other hand it has been up and running without a reboot for any reason other than my ignorance since early January. It will have to go down soon though as the CPU fan is starting to sound a little unhealthy.
I've played with RH, Fedora, Mandrake and Suse over the years and I swear by Smoothwall with three running at work and home beautifully. At the moment I'm working with Suse 9.1 personal at home which looks good having tired of problems with Fedora (quite probably more my problems than Fedora's!).
Have a Fedora running at work providing DNS and Apache (internal use only) on a small Windows network and it's been a little bit of a pig to me as a relative newbie in some ways but on the other hand it has been up and running without a reboot for any reason other than my ignorance since early January. It will have to go down soon though as the CPU fan is starting to sound a little unhealthy.