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Tell us your comments on this poll - which distro is your favorite, and why? If you chose "Other," which one are you currently using?
Peter Redmer
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OpenWRT is by far the best distro for embedded linux. I run it on all of my WGT634U's. It has a great buildroot environment, and huge software library for embedded systems
Debian is a close second. Ubuntu is a trailing "if thats what it takes" third. I voted "other". Please add OpenWRT to your distro choice, and maybe Debian.
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United StatesThanks rektide for your feedback. I added Debian to the list. My intention was to find out what desktop distro our users are using (we have done polls on wireless router firmware in the past, and will do so again I'm sure.)
I've always been curious what other people are using. Ubuntu leads the votes, but there's a lot of "other" votes.
Anyone out there who takes the poll, show your distro pride and let us know what you're using! I'd be particularly interested if you're using the distro on Mac (I need one to try out right now!)
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im a huge fan of linux mint i have used fedora ubuntu xubuntu and many other distros but non better than linux mint 5 (aka elssa)
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United StatesMint was one of the distros I was considering checking out. Will I be able to install it on my Mac? What is it that you like about Mint specifically?
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Jamaica, Queens, NYC, NY, United StatesCurrently using Sabayon x86_64 which is based on gentoo Linux with a ton of modifications to make it easy to use.
Also have Pardus, Mepis, Ubuntu, Kubuntu, OpenSUSE 11.0 x86_64, Fedora 9, Linux Mint 5, and BlueWhite64 which is a 64-bit version of Slackware. 3 of them are 64-bit distros and the other 6 are 32-bit.
Favorites are Kubuntu, BlueWhite64, Sabayon and Pardus. Do not care much for Fedora, Linux Mint. Have tried and rejected Debian Sid and Mandriva.
CentOS, because it's what we run in production at work. I run the fedora hack on my eee.
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United StatesThat's cool - my father has an eee PC and I have always been quite jealous. Are there other distros that are designed to work with the eee, or ones that you have hacked or tested yourself?
Peter Redmer
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Xandros (Debian) is the default. You should be able to put just about anything you can shoehorn onto the thing. The one I hack is a 2g surf, very tight quarters. I've seen howtos to get OS X on the things. :)
I'll be picking up one of the new 901s soon. I'll probably put a full fedora install on that one.
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United StatesSounds great. I would love to see OS X running on one of them in person, although I imagine it might run a little slow. I heard that Dell is also releasing a subcompact for around $299... I'm interested in checking out that one, too, although I doubt it will ship with Linux :(
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