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janrinok
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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If the thunder don't get you, then the lightning will.
(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.