The official Linux thread

[s0urce]

I've done a ton of them, I use Red Hat Enterprise at work, sometimes CentOS or Fedora Core. At home I've tried PClinuxOS, ubuntu, mandriva, debian, and gentoo.

I suggest ubuntu for the noobs.

[accident]

I've done a ton of them, I use Red Hat Enterprise at work, sometimes CentOS or Fedora Core. At home I've tried PClinuxOS, ubuntu, mandriva, debian, and gentoo.

I suggest ubuntu for the noobs.

how did you like gentoo?

[Jordan325iC]

Ubuntu

[BimmerTom]

Nerd alert...

I run Ubnutu 8.10 on my work machine (3.0ghz Quad core, 8gb RAM, 3x 300gb Velociraptors in RAID 0), and it's pretty quick.

Ubuntu on a lot of servers, and I have ESXi running at home, running Ubuntu servers hosting my mail filtering, website, DNS, and Zimbra.

Looking forward to 9.04, woohoo!

[scabzzzz]

Kubuntu here..
One of the latest versions. Even numbered release. Its all right.. Looks great visually..
One of the first versions I've loaded where I didnt have to use Windows drivers to get my wireless to work. The distro was bundled with it. Wowzers!

[thearkitekt]

I run ubuntu on my laptop and my other machine is a mac (photo/video editing wooo) so i am windows free...its great.

Seems like a lot of Ubuntu users out there, what are your fav tools/apps?

me? i like the games...lol.

[accident]

Seems like a lot of Ubuntu users out there

Ubuntu is the most userfriendly of the distributions. Distros like Slackware are a little more hardcore linux and require some experience. Gentoo is like linux nut hahaha. If you ever get some time or a spare PC do a Gentoo install without using the livecd, you'll see what I mean.

[s0urce]

how did you like gentoo?

It's h4x, I still use it.

[Gooch]

I installed a dual boot of Ubuntu sophomore year of college when I still lived on campus and I couldn't figure out a way to get past our Cisco CleanAccess program (to access the internet) so I ultimately got rid of it.

Once I'm out of school after this semester I'll be running solely Ubuntu.

[xLibelle]

wtf, maybe i should try Ubuntu... ive tried Debian5, Suse11, MandrivaOne, Slackware, and ... cant think of the other three I attempted to install and gave up with because they were too difficult or unstable. (Fedora being one of them.... Knoppix being another)
My favorite thus far, based on looks and feel was Debian, second runner up was Suse.

My ineretest in dabbling in linux is that I need a solid and secure server OS.
I want Turbolinux's Server edition but apparently you now have to pay for free shit.

Anyone with some suggestions?

[Ral]

Ubuntu. I like it.. but I'm not really a computer guy, so there's some things I wish were easier.

[Ral]

^^^damn, what a way to waste my 1000th post

[Skafrog]

Been running it since Mandrake 5.1 in some way.
I have had a Linux DNS/DHCP/SAMBA/Apache/WebMail/DAAP server running since 1999, and it has gone from Mandrake 5.1 through 10, then to Debian, then to Ubuntu 6.06 to 8.04.
I have a screenshot of my home server with an uptime of 320 days, which means I get all the benefits without any of the hassle. Auto-updates kick ass.

[James Crivellone]

Debian linux runs a bunch of my telephone, firewall, and routing equipment for work, tons of custom development on the platform.

I can't use it as a desktop OS yet, I simply need too many tools that would take forever to work working well on the *nix gui platform.

Server 2008 makes a damn good desktop OS though, pretty slim.

[BimmerTom]

I just reloaded my desktop from Server 2008 back to Ubuntu 8.10 (now 9.04). Most of the Windoze administration I need to do is AD or Exchange 2007, everything beyond that is CLI based Linux stuff. Plus, we needed the server license for an additional OWA server.

I do like Linux better, but I'm pretty comfortable with it and that makes a difference.

If you want to try Linux, just download and burn the Ubuntu live CD and give it a whirl.

Tom