Best (In your opinion) Linux?

What Linux is the best?

I heard that Red Hat and Ubuntu are good...

What do you think?

What Linux is the best?

I heard that Red Hat and Ubuntu are good...

What do you think?

Why didn't you pot this in the linux section.

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What Linux is the best?

I heard that Red Hat and Ubuntu are good...

What do you think?

Red Hat sucks. Yeah, this is more of a question for the Linux section. Ubuntu is pretty good also. :)

I've only used Ubuntu, but different distros of Linux are meant for different things.

Ubuntu would be (one of) the most popular distributions.

*Slaps forehead*

Totally forgot about the linux section...

I, personally, like Ubuntu. It's the only one I've used :cool:.

Yeah, Ubuntu is great. I've heard good things about Fedora, too.

so, what is linux? is like a whole new desktop? like it would replace my vista?

so, what is linux? is like a whole new desktop? like it would replace my vista?

Linux is a (in most cases) FREE Operating System designed by the community, for the community.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux

Kinda like Sabayon myself

so, what is linux? is like a whole new desktop? like it would replace my vista?

To add to what Teslanaut said:

It can replace your Vista if you like, but you also can dual boot.

To add to what Teslanaut said:

It can replace your Vista if you like, but you also can dual boot.

Thats what im doing...

Vista and Ubuntu right now... kinda want to try different Linux's but i dont know which one.

Also, i heard that you can zip files in Linux like you do in Mac OS X to put them on a Repo... is that true?

Linux is a (in most cases) FREE Operating System designed by the community, for the community.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux

Open Source. :) Open Source does not always mean free. Neither does free mean Open Source.

I installed Fedora Core 9 and it was a great experience. Although a bit too technical so I switched back to XP.

Open Source. :) Open Source does not always mean free. Neither does free mean Open Source.

Do you see the word open source? :)

Also, if it was open source, why wouldn't it be free? The source is available for anyone to compile.

Open source was a principle designed for everyone to have and play with :)

I use Debian, Apache, Backtrack (for pent testing) and have recently been messing with ubuntu - All on my VMware station lol

I use Debian, Apache, Backtrack (for pent testing) and have recently been messing with ubuntu - All on my VMware station lol

I use Backtrack too! :)

For Penetration testing.... Yeah... Lets call it that... :)

And on VMWare Fusion on my Mac :) Loving it to deathness.

I use Backtrack too! :)

For Penetration testing.... Yeah... Lets call it that... :)



No seriously! i would neva use it for the bad.....may be out side of my work :rolleyes:

Do you see the word open source? :)

Also, if it was open source, why wouldn't it be free? The source is available for anyone to compile.

Open source was a principle designed for everyone to have and play with :)

Open Source does not always mean free, or for everyone. There are some tricky companies that say 'You buy our product, we'll give you the source', so indeed, we are still open source! Which I believe, is a bunch of hunk, but is still true in a way. :|

In your statement, you said 'FREE', which is a bit cabalistic because free is different from open source. My friend, we could talk for days about this. :p

Open Source does not always mean free, or for everyone. There are some tricky companies that say 'You buy our product, we'll give you the source', so indeed, we are still open source! Which I believe, is a bunch of hunk, but is still true in a way. :|

In your statement, you said 'FREE', which is a bit cabalistic because free is different from open source. My friend, we could talk for days about this. :p

Read what I said, did you not notice the parenthesis? It said, (in most cases) FREE.

That means that MOST Linux distros are free. Not All :)

It really depends on your hardware.


For someone who cant pick his own "linux" I say go with Linux Mint.... It built off of ubuntu but add many much needed things for people new to the OS.

http://www.linuxmint.com/

If you dont like that there also Ubuntu,PCLinuxOS,openSUSE,Sabayon.

Don't mean to bump this, but I'd love to try out LFS.. it sounds great, my friend uses it, and he doesn't have any problems. Too bad I'm in the midst of learning a lot of things, so I can't use it. But I will try to within the next year. Lol.

I love Ubuntu, but my hardware is a pain in the butt. I have a UniChrome chipset, which is possibly the worst graphics card you can have for Linux. (Check the Ubuntu forums)

I love Ubuntu, but my hardware is a pain in the butt. I have a UniChrome chipset, which is possibly the worst graphics card you can have for Linux. (Check the Ubuntu forums)

*whistle*, I have SiS Graphics Card, lol. :(

I use Ubuntu, it's motto is "Linux for Human Beings"

Iit is very simple to use, as you don't need to know the commands to be able to do day to day stuff with it. However when you do start picking it up, it still has all the power and functionality of all the other Linux distro's, so you can get into some pretty clever stuff very quickly.

The Ubuntu forum people are absolute legends, very newbie friendly (they have a dedicated newbie team on the forum) and will get your problems ironed out quicker than you can imagine - just as long as you ask the right questions, so you put the effort it and you will get answers.... .

I have gone from knowing nothing about it, to knowing a fair amount, in a matter of months. It's an enjoyable learning curve too so give it a whirl!

Looking forward to getting my ipod touch (Sun Microsystems are giving me one, free!) so I can join in with these discusssions too...

tpy kv is right, the Ubuntu community is really big, helpful AND effective! I also tried, openSUSE, Mandriva, Fedora and ReactOS (which is not Linux, but open source) and Ubuntu gave me the best results!

I tried fedora, mandriva, backtrack, ubuntu, openSuse, PClinuxOS and finally i use xubuntu which is ubuntu with a Xfce environment instead of gnome
A powerful distro for old laptop like mine.

fedora suck cock
KDE sucks ase
mint :) is cool beans (Y)

having gone threw the houses and used and abused 127 diffrent linux system the one i stick with is ubuntu its good and fast reletivly easy till you get upto the level where you want to mess with things and then it gets incredibly powerful. also hardware surport is easy and for the majority its out of the box
if your new to linux definatly give ubuntu a shot its good and u wont regret it

CentOS for servers.
Gentoo for desktops.
Ubuntu for laptops and a few desktops with the new and fancy graphics cards. Driver set up is pretty easy with Ubuntu.

I use ubuntu on my ps3. It gets the job done, but i would NEVER use it as a replacement for windows.

and don't forget backtrack for all your remote exploiting.

Well ive tested about 7 differet versions of linux..and by far my favorite is
Ubuntu Studio :D Its a great multimedia OS and in my opinion it looks amazing. but if you just want the looks Linux mint is also pretty good looking..But Stay away from Fedora.. it screwed my comp over hardcore. Cd drive wouldn't work and it wouldn't dectect my internet connection. It also wouldn't even log me in T_T

I prefer Arch and openSUSE on my desktops and Ubuntu and openSUSE on laptops