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What Distro Do Soylentils Use?

posted by janrinok on Wednesday July 08 2015, @10:16PM   Printer-friendly
from the get-the-fire-extinguisher-ready... dept.

Subsentient writes:

I'm wondering what Linux distros my fellow soylentils use, and why.

I myself have loved Fedora since version 7, and never cared much for Debian systems. My desktops either run Fedora or a source-built XFCE system. What distros do you use, what architectures, and why do you use them? Are there any distros you wish were still around?

 
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  • (Score: 1) by isj on Thursday July 09 2015, @12:28AM

    by isj (5249) on Thursday July 09 2015, @12:28AM (#206683) Homepage

    OpenSUSE 13.1 on workstation, 13.2 on laptop.
    Works for me because I value stability over latest-and-greatest features.

  • (Score: 2) by randmcnatt on Thursday July 09 2015, @01:33AM

    by randmcnatt (671) on Thursday July 09 2015, @01:33AM (#206719)
    Just the opposite: 13.1 on the laptop. 13.2 on the desktop. Started using SuSE with a 7.3 (IIRC) boxed set in 2001 and haven't switched since.
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  • (Score: 3, Interesting) by frojack on Thursday July 09 2015, @05:23AM

    by frojack (1554) on Thursday July 09 2015, @05:23AM (#206809) Journal

    I run opensuse as well 13.2, KDE, and older version on a backroom server.

    Other machines are Openbsd, But I might be moving them to FreeBSD. I pay for those, and am getting Theo a little hard to stomach.

    I always have couple other distros in Virtual Machines that I fire up and play with just to keep up to date.

    I also signed up for a free trial of SLED (Suse Linux Enterprize Desktop) and I found out they never cut you off, and it updates just fine well over a year and a half out. Its normally $50/yr. Its gnome, and boring.

    Oh, and Salix http://www.salixos.org/ [salixos.org] Slackware without the pain.

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  • (Score: 1) by hb253 on Thursday July 09 2015, @03:19PM

    by hb253 (745) on Thursday July 09 2015, @03:19PM (#207002)

    Same here. Been using OpenSUSE since way back when.

    It's currently on a dual-boot box with Win7, but I haven't fired up Linux in months. I should do that....

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