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RE: Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Best Distro of the year (2008)

Pingus — Mon Jan 12, 2009 5:32 pm

Author: Pingus

Posted: Mon Jan 12, 2009 5:32 pm

Has to be Ubuntu 8.04LTS as its so rock solid I rejected any thoughts of upgrading to 8.10 and Im only gonna upgrade to the next LTS!

Honourable Mention: Fedora 10, Opensuse 11.

Re: RE: Re: RE: Re: Best Distro of the year (2008)

ollie — Fri Jan 09, 2009 12:04 pm

Author: ollie

Posted: Fri Jan 09, 2009 12:04 pm

M-Saunders wrote:

Maybe Nelz really meant to type trolls

M

Are you accusing me of being a troll? Or maybe just baiting nelz on occassions?

RE: Re: RE: Re: Best Distro of the year (2008)

nelz — Tue Jan 06, 2009 12:55 pm

Author: nelz

Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 12:55 pm

Ha Ha, very doll.

RE: Re: RE: Re: Best Distro of the year (2008)

M-Saunders — Tue Jan 06, 2009 12:42 pm

Author: M-Saunders

Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 12:42 pm

Maybe Nelz really meant to type trolls

M

Re: RE: Re: Best Distro of the year (2008)

RedWillow — Tue Jan 06, 2009 12:06 pm

Author: RedWillow

Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 12:06 pm

nelz wrote:

Gentoo is a set of tolls

I thought it was free!

RE: Re: Best Distro of the year (2008)

nelz — Tue Jan 06, 2009 11:43 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 11:43 am

Elsewhere on the same site it is dewscribed as a meta-distribution, which is closer to the mark. A Linux distro is a collection of packages and an installer to put them on your hard disk. Gentoo is a set of tolls to build this, but contains very few installable packages.

Re: Best Distro of the year (2008)

ollie — Tue Jan 06, 2009 9:16 am

Author: ollie

Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 9:16 am

nelz wrote:

That's because it's not a distro

Gentoo wrote:

Of course, Gentoo is more than just the software it provides. It is a community built around a distribution which is driven by more than 300 developers and thousands of users. The distribution project provides the means for the users to enjoy Gentoo: documentation, infrastructure (mailinglists, site, forums ...), release engineering, software porting, quality assurance, security followup, hardening and more.

Ref: What is Gentoo?

According to Gentoo they are a distribution

RE: Re: RE: Best Distro of the year (2008)

nelz — Tue Jan 06, 2009 7:57 am

Author: nelz

Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 7:57 am

That's because it's not a distro

RE: Re: RE: Best Distro of the year (2008)

indietrash — Tue Jan 06, 2009 7:43 am

Author: indietrash

Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 7:43 am

I agree Linpus has done a good job. Xandros too but I really don't like Xandros.

anyway I really have a thing for distros that have "versions". the *thing* is dislike. I definitely prefer the "versionless" Gentoo. but I guess Gentoo won't qualify for best distro of the year :p

Re: RE: Best Distro of the year (2008)

Captain_Tux — Mon Jan 05, 2009 10:40 pm

Author: Captain_Tux

Posted: Mon Jan 05, 2009 10:40 pm

longpig wrote:

Mandriva 2008.1 - outstanding.

What's the problem Captain Tux?

http://forum.mandriva.com/viewtopic.php?t=100256&start=50&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

Re: Best Distro of the year (2008)

gn2 — Sun Jan 04, 2009 3:03 am

Author: gn2

Posted: Sun Jan 04, 2009 3:03 am

guy wrote:

Debian Lenny rocks - hey, even I can get it to work, which is more than can be said for Ubuntu.

Says more about you than Ubuntu.....

Re: Best Distro of the year (2008)

guy — Sat Jan 03, 2009 3:55 pm

Author: guy

Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 3:55 pm

Debian Lenny rocks - hey, even I can get it to work, which is more than can be said for Ubuntu.

Re: Best Distro of the year (2008)

gn2 — Sat Jan 03, 2009 12:53 pm

Author: gn2

Posted: Sat Jan 03, 2009 12:53 pm

Ubuntu 8.04

It'll be my choice for distro of the year next year and the year after that as well.

Re: Best Distro of the year (2008)

HINTERG — Fri Jan 02, 2009 7:36 pm

Author: HINTERG

Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 7:36 pm

Interesting all this talk about KDE, and of course Gnome. I am not sure what desktop I use. Its called JWM, but is that the desktop, or the window manager? Anyway, it has a very limited configuration GUI, but once you get it figured, it is easy to directly edit the config files. It is very light, highly configurable, rocket ship fast, and very productive. Why would I want something like KDE?

Obligatory screenshot

Top launchbar autohides. Conky is not included, but again is very tiny for what it does.

Re: Best Distro of the year (2008)

1slipperyfish — Fri Jan 02, 2009 7:18 pm

Author: 1slipperyfish

Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 7:18 pm

mandriva with the old kde for me i just can't get on with this kde 4 even in fc 10 it's just garbage,i might even try the gnome flavour
paul