Tell us your comments on this poll - which distro is your favorite, and why? If you chose "Other," which one are you currently using?
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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.
Thanks 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!)
Mint 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?
CentOS, because it's what we run in production at work. I run the fedora hack on my eee.
That'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?
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.
Sounds 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 :(
I'm using Kubuntu for a year, and it's great. The only drawback is FreeBSD is much faster while working in console, but in GUI KDE and Ubuntu rulez.
I could only would by the grace of Adobe - no, I really don't want to install a flash banner ad player.
Ubuntu all the way. It just works out of the box.
Favorite Distros: Slackware, Ubuntu server, Gentoo, Fedora
I've been using Linux since 1994 and have tried practically all distros. All distros have their quirks and strengths. Gentoo is probably the best distro for your system because all applications are custom compiled and thus optimized. Consequently, it's one of the hardest distros and definitely not newbie-friendly. The easiest distro for anyone is ubuntu, but personally for me, I use ubuntu's server edition. The ubuntu desktop edition with the default install is bloated and puts a lot of useless apps on the system (IMHO).
I run a lot of servers, and Debian is by far the best Linux choice for that job, IMHO. For a desktop computer, Ubuntu's a lot nicer than Debian "out of the box," so if you just want minimal setup hassle, Ubuntu's the way to go. On the other hand, if you're going to do a lot of desktop customization and reconfiguration anyway, then Ubuntu loses some of that advantage.