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Slackware 7.1 w/ KDE 2.0.1 (I REALLY wish they'd clean up some of the bugs in this since if they did it would be untouchable as a Desktop environment IMHO) and XFree86 4.0.1 (haven't worked up the courage to put in 4.0.2 yet). Still running that darned old 2.2.16 kernel though. It works for me, and I probably won't replace it until the official "real" 2.4 kernel is released.
 
LFS 2.4.3 ( linux from scratch )

Based on Redhat-6.2, with packages from Slackware 7.0 .
Including Kde2.0.1,Xfree 4.0.1 and Kernel 2.2.18

(edit:

www.linuxfromscratch.org, it's book/howto whose goal is to build your own
funtional installation of linux

So my system is based on Red-Hat 6.2, but uses packages from Slackware 7.0
and the new versions of the goodies ( as stated above )

)
 
Depending on my inclination towards my maschochistic tendancies..

Debian or Slackware. Servers hosting customers get Debian, as the package management is a must-have for the in-house stuff (keeping apache up to date, etc.. running an apt-get update via cron nightly can be a life-saver for the bugtraq kiddies also.), and I do have a fetish for slackware still. Sentamental value dies hard. 🙂 So slackware runs all the boxen that don't really have services running that would ever need updating (i.e. the router, NAT box for the office lusers, name server).

But, I am slowly being converted to debian's ease-of-mass-administration. 🙁

Think the current total is

Debian x 4
Slackware x 3

-Phil
 
I've got a p120 with Peanut on it. I forget what version. I was intending to host a MUD on it a while back.

Right now I'm running LinuxPPC on my gf's imac. I just set it up. G3 macs are perfect for linux, imho.

 


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Red hat 7 with all of the bug fixes downloaded and KDE 2.0.1 added, as well as Mandrake 7.2. Here's my take: I have tried Suse 7, and it just would not work with my GeForce 2 MX card, nor my YMF-724 PCI sound card. I gave up on it. Mandrake 7.2 has the best install program I have seen of the three. recognized all of my hardware straight away, without any downloads, tweaks, etc. Red hat required a download from Nvidia, and some minor tweaks to get the video working properly. Once they are up and running, my preference is toward Red Hat, but that may be because I have more experience with it. Better documentation in red hat as well, IMHO. Drake IS faster however. the theory that drake is optimized for pentium and above machines seems to be correct.

As far as red hat 7 being buggy, I think that is mostly hype. There were two real problems with the installer and the compiler that I ran into, but the bug fixes offered work well. As far as the number of bugs, I noticed that Suse, mandrake, and red hat all have about the same number of fixes and updates available on their servers, and many of the fixes are the same in all three distros.
 
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