What Linux Distro Do You Use?

[bhoemen]

Wanted to know what distro's people are using

[smurfgod]

ubuntu 8.10.switched form xp with sp3.WILL NOT EVER GO BACK TO WINDOWS.i love linux and am wandering what i did without it for so long.

smurf :D

[diafanos]

I think it's a slightly biased poll!
We are in ubuntuforums.org :-)

[sub2007]

Other. I use Arch.

[Daisuke_Aramaki]

a combination of most. debian sid/gentoo on one machine. main work machine in my office runs intrepid. lunar powers my primary machine at home. test machine at home runs lunar+crux+sorcerer atm.

[Vince4Amy]

Slackware primarily, but also OpenSUSE.

[roelpeeters]

Like said before, I also will never go back to Windows. Running Ubuntu 8.10 64 bit at home, Ubuntu 7.10 32-bit at work.

[chamber]

Ubunutu 8.04 and CrunchBang 8.10.

Love CrunchBang for the simplicity.

[Zack McCool]

Hmmm. The Poll only allowed 1 choice...

Main desktop: Mint Elyssa
My laptop: Mint Elyssa
Wife's Eee: The linux that came with it...
11 yo's laptop: Xubuntu 8.10
7 yo's Eee: WinXP (for a few more days)
1 Server on CentOS 4.5
1 Server on CentOS 5
2 Servers on Win 2003, but soon to be converted to CentOS
1 PC running FreeNAS

I think that covers everything in the house... ;)

[linuxisfree]

I answered Ubuntu because that's the OS i use on my Laptop at home, but i do dabble a little in Fedora at the office (1 of our development servers)... :D

[ibutho]

Currently openSUSE and Fedora. I tend to use openSUSE a bit more although I really like Fedora as well.

[whitefang5412]

Ubuntu 8.10

[fistfullofroses]

I use GoboLinux, which is a system based on linux from scratch with a new file hierarchy system and custom package management that is similar to slackpkg, portage, and ... well... the third part is only in Gobo. The installer could use some work since it doesn't allow you to create multiple partitions, with custom mounting locations. Other than that, I love it. It suits my needs very well.

[hrod beraht]

Other: Arch (with Openbox window manager)

Bob

[notwen]

I use two separate distros. Debian & Ubuntu.

[Simian Man]

I use Fedora on my desktop and Ubuntu on my laptop (though it will like switch to Fedora soon too).

[C!oud]

uh oh someone didn't add Arch to the list :D. As for me, I'm a happy Gentoo user.

[pcybill]

(X)Ubuntu 8.10

[will1911a1]

Arch.

[donkyhotay]

Ubuntu, I dabbled with other distro's before settling on it. I like the debian package management system and would probably use debian itself on a server but for my desktop I don't like the 'must be libre' mentality that debian has going for it.

[Sorivenul]

Other.

I use FreeBSD for production work.
I do also use Ubuntu, however.

[SuperSonic4]

Other - Arch Linux

but I also use kubuntu

[joshmuffin]

This should definitely be a multiple choice poll I currently use almost half of these and I've tried almost all also arch needs to be there.
I put Ubuntu as it's on my family computer and I boot into it the most. (other then arch which isn't on the list)

[cardinals_fan]

I voted Slackware, but I dual-boot it with SliTaz Cooking and I have a NetBSD virtual machine that I boot up often.

[omns]

I voted other.

Crunchbang Linux user

[cardinals_fan]

I voted other.

Crunchbang Linux user
Isn't CrunchBang an Ubuntu remix?

[Harii]

Antix-mepis--
I have old laptops and my usb and wifi card works out of the box.
load and go
no fuss-no mess

I would love to use ubuntu but they don't support old hardware.
kernel is too new or something?

where is--the damn small ubuntu
because i would jump on that.:popcorn:

[cammin]

None of the above.

I have Gentoo installed, but I haven't used it more than 5 minutes in the last month.

[namegame]

Isn't CrunchBang an Ubuntu remix?

I used it for a while, and to me it IS Ubuntu with OpenBox on top.

From the Crunchbang website:

CrunchBang Linux is an Ubuntu based distribution featuring the lightweight Openbox window manager and GTK+ applications. The distribution has been built and customised from a minimal Ubuntu install.

With the exception of a few packages, CrunchBang Linux is built entirely from packages available from the Ubuntu repositories. CrunchBang Linux uses the same APT package management tools and update manager.

So as of now, it pretty much is Ubuntu.

As for the poll, I voted "Other." I use Arch.

[anticapitalista]

I voted Other, but I use antiX and sidux.

[sisco311]

arch

[cmay]

ubuntu 8.04
debian etch (sometimes a lenny install but i go back to etch always)
crunchbang 8.10 on my asus eeepc.(which is very great)
my audio recording studio is a debian derivative for that purpose called 64studio.

i use live cd and have a load of usb stick ditributions. like puppy and damn small linux. i have a gamers dvd and of course i carrie a knoppix and system rescue cd in my tool box.

[mikjp]

At the moment I've got installed:
- openSUSE 11.0
- Xubuntu 8.04
- Vector Linux 5.9
- Debian stable

I mostly use Vector and openSUSE.

Greetings,

mikko

[Antman]

I'm currently using Mepis 8 RC1 on two systems and Slackware 12.2 on one.

[ferronica]

i am using ubuntu gnome from its first release :) other OS Xp Pro Sp3 :D

[shafi]

i am using ubuntu gnome from its first release :) other OS Xp Pro Sp3 :D

Lovely Ubuntu ;)

[ukripper]

Currently installed:
ubuntu 8.04 and 8.10
sidux
puppy
opensuse 11

[gjoellee]

I use Arch

[nitehawk777]

Currently using:

Debian Etch
Linux Mint
Puppy 4.1
Parsix

[C!oud]

Other.

I use FreeBSD for production work.
I do also use Ubuntu, however.

Well if we're listing non linux OSs then of course I'm using NetBSD 5.0 BETA over all else :D

[cardinals_fan]

Well if we're listing non linux OSs then of course I'm using NetBSD 5.0 BETA over all else :D
I have it in Qemu, and I'm quite impressed so far. How do you like it?

[crimesaucer]

Arch.

[djhyland]

I put down Gentoo since that's what I'm currenly using the most often. Aside from that, I use Fedora and Ubuntu on a semi-regular basis, and have a OpenSolaris install that I would use if it could share my ext3 home partition. I'm thinking of adding Pardus to my computer as well, since I have a spare partition set aside.

[kellemes]

It always has been either Debian or Arch, these days it's Arch.

[handy]

Other:

Arch - mainly used.
IPCop - Linux based, dedicated, standalone firewall/router, providing other additional services.
FreeNAS - which is based on FreeBSD.
Sabayon4 - upgrade trashed 3.4f so I'll get around to replacing it with Zenwalk, sooner or later.
Leopard - rarely used (yeh I know, some of us have stretched our answers beyond the question :-)).

[Rumor]

Other: Arch

[C!oud]

I have it in Qemu, and I'm quite impressed so far. How do you like it?

Awesome, it's fixed a lot of functionality problems that I've been having with 4.0.1 like I can finally mount my ntfs partition (driver was always available but would never build for me since it always kicked out errors asking for librefuse and a bunch of other packages only available for BETA) and xorg is more readily available as a binary package. It's still very much in development stage though I tried to install from the daily snapshot netinstall CDs and had to try a few before I got anything to work. I think I'm going to run it until I get some kind of massive breakage(don't ask me why I installed it on actual hardware was just feeling couragious and my current install wasn't playing nice :)) then switch it to a VM and try out OpenBSD or prehaps MidnightBSD until 5.0 is released.

Edit: Is it just me or has ftp.netbsd.org become really unorganized? Ever since they started moving some of the files around things have just become really confusing. The files are all still there buried and hidden in different folders but I think it needs some cleanup.

[NWAdawg]

I run CrunchBang on 2 systems, dual booting one with Mint. I voted other, cause Crunchbang is my primary OS.

[cardinals_fan]

Edit: Is it just me or has ftp.netbsd.org become really unorganized? Ever since they started moving some of the files around things have just become really confusing. The files are all still there buried and hidden in different folders but I think it needs some cleanup.
It doesn't seem that bad to me.

[C!oud]

It doesn't seem that bad to me.

It's fine I was just being stupid not being able to find the up to date packages since I was looking in the wrong directory.

[ghindo]

I've used Ubuntu for about two or three years. I've occasionally dabbled in other distros, but never for very long. However, I think I'm going to give Arch another try in a week or so, mainly because there's a wireless bug in Ubuntu that I'm very irritated with. It'll also be fun to tinker around with Arch again.

[Old_Gray_Wolf]

I'm sure Ubuntu will lead in this poll. We are on the Ubuntu Forum. I primarily use Ubuntu. I also use CentOS since I use RHEL at work.

[Z_Cee]

I use Kiwi which is basically Ubuntu, but with a few changes. At the moment I am using Kiwi 8.04/Ubuntu 8.04 LTS. Kiwi/Ubuntu 8.10 is too slow booting. I also figure that I will get longer service from an LTS version, so I'll be staying with this setup on my laptop for a long time.

[tawie]

sidux xfce 2008-04 now.

[HunterThomson]

Archlinux + Ubuntu.... Arch is better and I love the rc files. I don't know where to begin governing the start up order or what starts under traditional Linux. You like have to write some long header thing and it looks like a real pain in the ***.

[billgoldberg]

Wanted to know what distro's people are using

Arch linux on my main pc.

Eeebuntu on my netbook.

[cardinals_fan]

An update:

Slackware with VMs for Windows XP and NetBSD on one partition, Fedora 9 with a VM for Windows 7 on the other.

[C!oud]

An update:

Slackware with VMs for Windows XP and NetBSD on one partition, Fedora 9 with a VM for Windows 7 on the other.

Fedora 9?!

[cardinals_fan]

Fedora 9?!
I've found that one-release-old Fedora releases are great, even when odd.

[cprofitt]

I wonder how many of the Other = Arch

[C!oud]

I've found that one-release-old Fedora releases are great, even when odd.

:p You're the last person I would expect to use Fedora 9, but I guess whatever floats your boat

[Sorivenul]

I've found that one-release-old Fedora releases are great, even when odd.
I tried running 9 again recently myself, fully updated. My results differ from yours; 9 is still a pain, while my 10 install feels like paradise by comparison. More proof to the "mileage my vary" slogan we use so often.

[cardinals_fan]

:p You're the last person I would expect to use Fedora 9, but I guess whatever floats your boat
I tried running 9 again recently myself, fully updated. My results differ from yours; 9 is still a pain, while my 10 install feels like paradise by comparison. More proof to the "mileage my vary" slogan we use so often.
Let's just say that the boat sank. My attempts to lighten Fedora just broke it, and rather than deal with it any more, I replaced it with Windows 7. I now wish I had that twm desktop back (more details [aka raving madness] in the Windows 7 beta thread).

[Hyper Tails]

I used ubuntu and then Kubuntu and then back to ubuntu

I do a quartuate boot of xp/vista/7 beta and ubuntu
It's all good