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Other BSD and UNIX/UNIX-like Any other flavour of BSD or UNIX that does not have a section of its own. |
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Redhat / Centos | 24 | 15.09% | |
Suse | 4 | 2.52% | |
Debian | 36 | 22.64% | |
Slackware | 30 | 18.87% | |
Gentoo | 13 | 8.18% | |
Ubuntu | 23 | 14.47% | |
Others | 29 | 18.24% | |
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Thanks, George
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It takes a few steps post-install to really trim it down.
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I use Gentoo and SuSE at work. I'd be hard pressed to say I like them.
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I use Slackware (currently using 11.0). I've used it since 1997 (before that it was DOS, never really got into Windows). Every five years or so I seem to upgrade the whole system, when the libraries get out of date, lol. I like Slackware's DIY approach; YMMV etc.
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I haven't done it in awhile, and make sure you have a CD or DVD with a yum rpm on it, but the trick is to uncheck base system in package selection. That includes lots of things you don't need. (Also uncheck everything else in all the package selections.) It gives you a nice minimal system. There's a Linux program, similar to FreeBSD jails, called Vserver which also gives you a REALLY small install, doesn't include, for example, less, which ssh and a few others that I'd consider basic. |
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Ah, I see. They are usually quite good on hardware support.
Have I mentioned anywhere in this thread that thanks to FreeBSD's Sam L. the infamous AR5007EG card now works with MadWifi and 64 bit? Also, I see that my earlier mentioned problem with nspluginwrapper *is* documented on their wiki. Shame on me. Sorry Fedora guys. |
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Yeah, I've been AWOL for a little while.. didn't realize that bsdforums was dying a horrible painful death by spam.
```the bsdforums is dead... long live the daemonforums!```
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These days, I'm of the mindset that optimizations don't always yield real-world results. I say that because I run Debian. Unless Debian compiles all its packages with suitable optimizations and then tests each package, packages on Debian are just as fast as those on Gentoo, if not faster. Firefox always crawled for me on Gentoo and was one of the buggiest I've ever seen. It's never been like that on OS X or Debian or FreeBSD for that matter. And, I wouldn't be able to have all my programs installed on Gentoo and the system configured the way I need in one hour, at most two hours, as I've been able to on Debian. I guess I just look more for the "it just works" rather than the theoretical "it works best". I don't know if you can really test the latter, as much as Gentoo claims. So, I guess distance from the Gentoo philosophy kind of got to me. One thing I liked about Gentoo was the USE flags system, but after using FreeBSD for a while, it's very very poorly implemented. I like how FreeBSD lets you do per-package optimizations without ever having to make additional configuration files. The way FreeBSD does it is the best, and I'd like to see more of that in Gentoo, but until I do, I stick with Debian. Last edited by ninjatux; 7th June 2008 at 12:33 AM. |
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Debian has a very rigorous package testing process. The stable branch is seldom updated with revision releases, and occasionally point releases. It will not have the latest software available because of Debian's opinion that the latest does not always mean the stablest (if that's a work). So, if you're not using Debian in a production environment, then I'd recommend upgrading to Debian Lenny/Testing. You'll have access to newer packages that have been tested and are being used to develop the new release. I run Debian Sid/Unstable, which has not given me any trouble yet. I also use packages from the experimental branch. You may want to give Sid a try if you want a rolling release system and up-to-date packages. The other option for you is to setup a mixed system. This involves APT pinning, which allows you to give priority to which branch you want to use more than others. You can also explicitly specify the branch when you use APT. Debian is quite robust, so the possibilities are endless.
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I like Slackware, but mainly because I used it to experiment with NetBSD's pkgsrc on Linux and there's some old but still pertinent documentation on how to use pkgsrc with Slackware.
Unfortunately Slackware 12.1's installer wouldn't work properly on the machine I was using, so I switched it over to OpenBSD. I'm now experimenting with using pkgsrc on that OS. |
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I used Slackware for six months, three years ago.
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Hello,
After trying several distros, I settled on Slackware about two years ago (starting with version 10.1). It works for me very well (though, it might not be for everyone - especially those looking for the bleeding edge of development).
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I use Ubuntu and CentOS but i have tried many distro.
I have tried Slax 5.x and I found myself well. It's light and i like very much the presence of loadable modules on the fly. |
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Back in the day I used Debian. Tried Fedora, CentOS, Gentoo, et all. If I had to go back to Linux, it'd be a tough decision between Debian and CentOS.
But, I don't see myself leaving FreeBSD any time soon.
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I'm using Debian now for four years and I have to admit, that it's my favorite OS since then. The two main reasons are stability and aptitude. Up to now I haven't found another package management system, that is so easy to use and so powerfull (in respect to my needs!!!). I really like OpenBSD and it is the one OS that could replace Debian. But I don't think that this will happen soon, because I'm working in the media business. Broadcasting via internet using flash becomes more and more important and we all know that flash on *BSD is no fun up to now. |
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