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on Wednesday July 08 2015, @10:16PM
from the get-the-fire-extinguisher-ready... dept.
from the get-the-fire-extinguisher-ready... dept.
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 topdawg on Wednesday July 08 2015, @11:24PM
I use slackware -current on my server, but don't use a linux desktop (using win7 for gaming reasons.) Learned a lot from having to figure out was missing and manually compiling everything, but definitely isn't for everyone.
(Score: 2) by pe1rxq on Thursday July 09 2015, @09:28AM
I'm using slackware as well. But usually it only starts as slackware and then becomes a mix of the original packages, some current stuff if updates are needed, some slackbuild packages and usually a lot of stuff compiled from source..
My current server actually started live as slamd64, but now mostly resembles slackware64-current.
On the beagle bone black I use my owm arm hardfloat (with multiarch) slackware port.
(Score: 2) by skater on Thursday July 09 2015, @08:13PM
Slackware on the headless server, rock solid and easy to manage for that situation, without a lot of GUI add-on dependencies. But for desktop use, Slack can turn into a headache, so I switched to Kubuntu for that. It works extremely well, and it's nice being able to install and update packages with a couple mouse clicks, even the ones that have tons of dependencies.
(Score: 2) by Kromagv0 on Thursday July 09 2015, @12:32PM
For me the setup is:
Personal laptop Slackware 14.1 x86_64 with XFCE
Household desktop Win7 Pro 64 bit and Slackware 14.1 x86_64 with XFCE
Work computer at my desk Win7
All of the other machines I deal with at work AIX, Solaris, RHEL
Exempting the work machines the reasons I choose to run Win7 and Slackware are simple. Win7 is chosen as the path of least resistance since with the wife and kids it just makes my life simpler. I choose to run Slackware in part because of nostalgia (been using it since 1996) and in part because it doesn't get in my way like others. For some reason software that requires being built from source just seems go much easier on it since there is less OS quirks, looking at you Ubuntu. Granted I haven't run RHEL at home so it might be better and I have kept away from Fedora after finding it to be on the bloated side. Add in that the hardware detection and support in Slackware is no longer like the stories you hear and it just works and it seems pretty damn good tool for what I use it for. However if you want cutting or bleeding edge Slackware isn't going to be your distro as Patrick tends to go for stability and reliability over new and shiny.
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(Score: 2) by linuxrocks123 on Thursday July 09 2015, @12:32PM
Slackware here, too!
Some good third-party repos (from my slapt-getrc):
http://slackonly.com/pub/packages/14.1-x86_64/ [slackonly.com]
http://ponce.cc/slackware/slackware64-current/packages/ [ponce.cc]
http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware64-14.1/ [slacky.eu]
I don't run any of them, so technically I don't know if the NSA has pwn3d my computer with them ... but they've got a good package selection!