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Looking for a distro to try/use.

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RyanGreener

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Ok, I've had vague experience with the following distros....

Ubuntu (8.04 through 9.10)
Mint (5 through 8)

That's about it. I don't like the fact that a new distro comes out every 6 months, so I'm looking for the following criteria:

1) Stability
2) I don't care about speed of boot ups or anything, actually.
3) Security would be nice but I'm sure Linux is secure in its ownself anyway.
4) Useability/user friendly. I'm not saying it has to be super easy, but I'm still new to Linux in general which is why I made this topic.

Thanks guys!
 
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I've read about Arch Linux and I don't think I'd have the time to try it. Going to try Debian or an older version of Fedora Core as I hear Fedora is a general based version of linux.
 
azemsiB said:
I've read about Arch Linux and I don't think I'd have the time to try it. Going to try Debian or an older version of Fedora Core as I hear Fedora is a general based version of linux.
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I've tried dozens of versions of Linux - a couple of versions of BSD - OpenSolaris - and so forth, and so on. It was my hobby, for about a year.

The distros I depend on (daily) for different purposes are:
Ubuntu - desktop
Mint - laptop/netbook
Puppy - doorstops
Slackware - home box
CentOS - production server​

Many distros left me cold... including Arch Linux and Fedora (yuck). :\

The only distro that I would personally be interested in trying/using is Sabayon. It's based on Gentoo... and looks right up my alley!

http://www.sabayon.org/ (Sabayon Linux Five Oh! Web Site)

That would be my recommendation... :sneaky:
 
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If your primary experience is with Ubuntu but you don't like how often new release come out, you're a perfect candidate for Ubuntu LTS.
 
Ubuntu/Xubuntu/Kubuntu 9.04 is my recommendation. 9.10 seems to be having some issues ATM. I have been using Xubuntu 9.04 for a while now on my laptop and its great.

I recommend Ubuntu or one of its derivatives because its so easy to setup and use. no recompiling the kernel to put drivers in. Its one of the few distros that 'just works' (usually). Kubuntu seems to be OK also but never really liked KDE so i always avoided it.

You don't have to upgrade every time a new release comes out.
 
Debian testing or sid. I would start with testing and then once you become more comfortable with it an upgrade to sid is simple and will get you more frequent updates.
 
Nothinman said:
Debian testing or sid. I would start with testing and then once you become more comfortable with it an upgrade to sid is simple and will get you more frequent updates.
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Works for me too.
I have not used another distro for several years now.
 
I do try other things but if it is something I will have to administer then deb it is. Most everything is a RAID1 using software raid. I make sure and install and edit grub so it will boot from either drive and set up email to notify me of a drive failure. Everything gets automatically backed up somewhere else using rsync, and I sleep well.
 
I'm a big ubuntu fan. We use it on servers, on desktops, even on netbooks. However, we are moving to SUSE due to requirements from a software vendor that runs most of our major business logic (Choices of Solaris 10, Redhat 4, or SUSE 11)
 
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I'm a big ubuntu fan. We use it on servers, on desktops, even on netbooks. However, we are moving to SUSE due to requirements from a software vendor that runs most of our major business logic (Choices of Solaris 10, Redhat 4, or SUSE 11)
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Why would you choose SuSE over RHEL?
 
SUSE support is tied into our super cheap novell contract. Redhat licenses and support cost more then Solaris does (in education).

Being that the vendor will not support any other operating systems, the choice is simple. We have to pay for novell support and we get free novell/suse linux support with that, SUSE is free, use suse.

This is a move to stop using expensive sun hardware and leverage more x86/64 hardware. (The vendor will not support solaris x86)
 
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