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What distro are you running? *Spring 2010 Edition*

Postby maxinflixion on 13 Mar 2010, 14:33

I've been unimpressed w/ Ubuntu Karmic thus far. I just backed up all of my media files to a separate partition in anticipation of an OS change, and before just jumping onto the Lucid Lynx beta as soon as it is ready, I figured I'd ask around as to what others are running these days.

I'd hate to just stick w/ Ubuntu because I bought a brown hoodie :)
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Re: What distro are you running? *Spring 2010 Edition*

Postby Jinux on 13 Mar 2010, 16:12

I'd recommend Mint to ANYBODY but I'm just waiting till I have a week free so I can fall into Arch 8-)
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Re: What distro are you running? *Spring 2010 Edition*

Postby maxinflixion on 13 Mar 2010, 16:57

I just popped in a Live CD of Fedora 12 w/ KDE.

Maybe it's time I gave KDE another shot?
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Re: What distro are you running? *Spring 2010 Edition*

Postby sotolf on 13 Mar 2010, 17:01

I am running archbang, which is basically just an arch install where some things are installed already, I changed to the awesomewm window manager and chrome for the web browsing together with elinks and vim and emacs, and I am golden ;)
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Re: What distro are you running? *Spring 2010 Edition*

Postby nailuj on 13 Mar 2010, 17:01

maxinflixion wrote:I just popped in a Live CD of Fedora 12 w/ KDE.

Maybe it's time I gave KDE another shot?

Yeah definitely, Fedora with KDE is an excellent, if not the best possible choice :D

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Re: What distro are you running? *Spring 2010 Edition*

Postby SpandexBob on 13 Mar 2010, 17:19

Currently Karmic on the desktop and Arch on the NC10.

I keep thinking about trying out Fedora, I keep hearing good things about it but I'm hesitant. I remember the bad old days of falling into rpm dependency hell :( whats the package management like now?
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Re: What distro are you running? *Spring 2010 Edition*

Postby jonkulp on 13 Mar 2010, 17:24

SpandexBob wrote:Currently Karmic on the desktop and Arch on the NC10.

I keep thinking about trying out Fedora, I keep hearing good things about it but I'm hesitant. I remember the bad old days of falling into rpm dependency hell :( whats the package management like now?

I've been on Fedora only about 6 months now but like it very much. I have no issues with the package manager except that the GUI is atrocious. If you don't mind using the command line then everything's peachy. :)

I'd like to try Arch but can't afford any downtime on my laptop at the moment. I wish I had a spare machine to work on it. :(
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Re: What distro are you running? *Spring 2010 Edition*

Postby jezra on 13 Mar 2010, 17:26

Currently, I'm running Arch (with the testing repo enabled) on most of my machines
Lubuntu on my guest laptop
command line Frugalware on a low RAM machine
Ubuntu Server on my home server

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Re: What distro are you running? *Spring 2010 Edition*

Postby sotolf on 13 Mar 2010, 17:29

jonkulp wrote:
SpandexBob wrote:Currently Karmic on the desktop and Arch on the NC10.

I keep thinking about trying out Fedora, I keep hearing good things about it but I'm hesitant. I remember the bad old days of falling into rpm dependency hell :( whats the package management like now?

I've been on Fedora only about 6 months now but like it very much. I have no issues with the package manager except that the GUI is atrocious. If you don't mind using the command line then everything's peachy. :)

I'd like to try Arch but can't afford any downtime on my laptop at the moment. I wish I had a spare machine to work on it. :(

well, that is what dualbooting is for, I have a couple of spare partitions lying around for some distro hopping, I had no problem with archbang, took me about 20 min to install, and then a couple of hours to get it like I wanted, and get my packages configured like I want them (finally I understood symlinks) and I haven't had any problems with it yet :)
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Re: What distro are you running? *Spring 2010 Edition*

Postby SpandexBob on 13 Mar 2010, 18:11

jonkulp wrote:
SpandexBob wrote:Currently Karmic on the desktop and Arch on the NC10.

I keep thinking about trying out Fedora, I keep hearing good things about it but I'm hesitant. I remember the bad old days of falling into rpm dependency hell :( whats the package management like now?

I've been on Fedora only about 6 months now but like it very much. I have no issues with the package manager except that the GUI is atrocious. If you don't mind using the command line then everything's peachy. :)

I'd like to try Arch but can't afford any downtime on my laptop at the moment. I wish I had a spare machine to work on it. :(

Maybe I'll give it a try, i've no problem getting busy on the command line.

Arch is nice thats for sure. I put the standard arch install on my NC10 and I've gotta say the Beginners Guide on the wiki is brilliant. The wiki as a whole is brilliant I can't say enough about the wiki. I had to get a printer installed on Arch and I was dreading it. I thought it was going to be a pain but after a quick search on the wiki and google i got it installed like a dream.
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