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Old 01-05-2008, 12:36 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Default What Linux Distro's Do You Use / Have You Used?

I was wondering what linuix distros people have used.

I currently use Ubuntu (7.10)

Previously I have used:
Knoppix
Kubuntu
Mandrake (before mandriva)
Red Hat
Fedora Core
Debian
Damn Small Linux (on other computers, not much)
SuSE (for 2 weeks)

What have you guys used?
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Old 01-05-2008, 12:58 AM   #2 (permalink)
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Fedora is a Red Hat type distro for the most part. I know from that being one of the first tried here back a few years ago when first looking Linux over. That was also when GParted and QParted both saw a look as partitioning tools.

Mandrake was on along with the SUN Microsystems Solaris 10 trying to get that up and running on the last build while several live for cd releases have been used over the years. You touched on a few there with Knoppix and ubuntu 7.10 live. Others like Mepis, Zenwalk, Gentoo, and a few others I probably forgot about until now!
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I've tried (non-exhaustive list):

Ubuntu (All since 6.06), Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Fedora Core 6 & 7, Mandriva, Knoppix, DSL, PCLinuxOS, Freespire & Solaris (Not strictly Linux but hey...)
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One old article may be of some real interest to you aboiut how a live for cd distro has other purposes like data rescue on MS type systems whether Fat or NTFS is the partition type. You can review the "Computer First Aid using Knoppix" article seen at http://www.shockfamily.net/cedric/knoppix/

A few other live distros can also be used to substitute Knoppix like ubuntu for gaining acccess to partitions when Windows can't for some reason. At the time of the article Knoppix being small in size was the choice for something like that.
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Linux
Fedora 5-8
Read Hat 9
Centos 4.4, 5.0
Ubuntu, Xubuntu, Kubuntu
Gentoo
Knoppix
SUSE 9.1, 10, 10.3, SLED10 {Server|Client}
Zenwalk

Unix
Sun Solaris 10.0
PC BSD
OSX

Other,
Plan 9 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs
menuetos http://www.menuetos.net/

Wow after typing it out I should just pick one and live with it.
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Knoppix, puppy, slax, slackware, (x)(k)(flux)(edu)ubuntu(studio), arch, pclinuxos, gos, red hat, opensuse, fedora core, dsl, debian, gentoo, zenwalk and backtrack.
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I have used:
slax
Ubuntu 7.04
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all linux distro pretty much looks the same to me except some are rescue cd's and diagnostics, ive used :

Fedora 6 + 7
Suse 10.1 and 10.2
Pclinux 2007
Dream
Slackware
Zenwalk
Knoppix Live
ubuntu
Mepis
Freepsire/Linspire (lame)

and a bunch of others i can't even think of
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