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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: 2) by CoolHand on Wednesday July 08 2015, @10:45PM

    by CoolHand (438) on Wednesday July 08 2015, @10:45PM (#206637) Journal
    Try distros.. RHEL, OEL, CentOS, Debian (hopefully Devuan soon), Fedora-KDE, Mint-KDE, ElementaryOS, Peppermint then there's FreeBSD, PC-BSD... Yes, I've used all these regularly in the last few months..
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  • (Score: 2) by Common Joe on Thursday July 09 2015, @03:36AM

    by Common Joe (33) <common.joe.0101NO@SPAMgmail.com> on Thursday July 09 2015, @03:36AM (#206764) Journal

    You've listed 10 distros that you use, but you forgot to answer why you use these distros. And I'm pretty curious what different things you get accomplished on 10 different distros. When I see a list like this, I wonder what I don't understand about the various operating systems.

    Off topic: I love the Douglas Adams quote.

    • (Score: 3, Interesting) by CoolHand on Thursday July 09 2015, @12:20PM

      by CoolHand (438) on Thursday July 09 2015, @12:20PM (#206934) Journal
      I didn't read TFS very well, did i? RHEL, OEL, CentOS - All RHEL based server distro's that I use at work RHEL, OEL for systems requiring "support". RHEL is preferred, but we recently got heavily into Oracle applications (unfortunately), so it seemed better to go with their Linux over RHEL so that there was one point of support. CentOS is for internal things that don't require support. Debian - run on my VPS server. Debian based distros are my Linux system of choice. Devuan - Debian goodness without systemd corruption.. (I'm really still on the fence about systemd, but I'm very much pro-choice) Fedora-KDE - played around with this at work for a "beginner" distro to use to introduce this to some co-workers that wanted to learn Linux. I picked this for a desktop system that they might like and have more commonality with our RHEL based servers than a debian (or ubuntu) based system. Mint-KDE, ElementaryOS - Mint-KDE at home on personal desktop. Debian/Ubuntu based. Plays games nice. Easy for family. Actually converted to that from Aptosid/Siduction that I'd run at home for some time. ElementaryOS Freya is on my laptop. It's very slick, suspends/resumes nicely, etc.. However, recently found a weird bug with my wifi that runs very slow and haven't figured it out yet (it's fine on livecd, but real system is sometimes almost unusable over wifi). So, it's status is in the air until I get that resolved. Peppermint - nice lightweight distro based on Mint that use in a virtual machine to do my browsing. Keeps my system more stable, reduces chance of malware infection in my main machine.. FreeBSD - more Unix-y server than Linux. Native ZFS. No systemd. Cathedral model instead of bazaar - which has it's advantages. Mainly experimenting/learning with it now - may replace my vps with this one day PC-BSD - using as my desktop at work. Based on FreeBSD. Really great. In next major version there is supposed to be better Linux emulation support, and if it successfully runs Steam for Linux successfully may become a candidate for home use.
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      • (Score: 2) by CoolHand on Thursday July 09 2015, @12:22PM

        by CoolHand (438) on Thursday July 09 2015, @12:22PM (#206935) Journal
        I had that split into paragraphs, but clicked submit instead of preview, and then realized I didn't have any html tags to actually make it display that way, so it's kind of ugly.. sorry.
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