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samtar
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Hmm, for me it has to be SuSE 10.3, but I'm yet to try 11.1 :s
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| Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 2:01 am Post subject: RE: Best Distro of the year (2008) |
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Winner: Hardy Heron
Honorable Mention: Mandriva 2008.1
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| Posted: Fri Jan 02, 2009 6:18 pm Post subject: RE: Best Distro of the year (2008) |
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Mandriva 2008.1 - outstanding.
What's the problem Captain Tux?
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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 
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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?
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Ubuntu 8.04
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Debian Lenny rocks - hey, even I can get it to work, which is more than can be said for Ubuntu.
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| guy wrote: | | Debian Lenny rocks - hey, even I can get it to work, which is more than can be said for Ubuntu. |
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indietrash
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| Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 7:43 am Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Best Distro of the year (2008) |
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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
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| Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 7:57 am Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Best Distro of the year (2008) |
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That's because it's not a distro 
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| Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 9:16 am Post subject: Re: Best Distro of the year (2008) |
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| 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?
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nelz
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| Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 11:43 am Post subject: RE: Re: Best Distro of the year (2008) |
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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.
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| Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 12:06 pm Post subject: Re: RE: Re: Best Distro of the year (2008) |
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| nelz wrote: | | Gentoo is a set of tolls |
I thought it was free! 
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M-Saunders
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| Posted: Tue Jan 06, 2009 12:42 pm Post subject: RE: Re: RE: Re: Best Distro of the year (2008) |
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Maybe Nelz really meant to type trolls
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