Some really stable distro

Troncoso

Troncoso

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Anyone play with a really stable Linux distro lately? I guess I shouldn't look for a new release. I've lately installed Linux Mint 12 and Fedora 16. Loved Mint, but the problems I kept having proved it to be unreliable. Same with Fedora.

I imagine Ubuntu 10.04 would be a great option, but I'd like some feedback first.
Just something that has worked out a lot of common issues (I would love to actually have sound with going through hell and back) as well, as a working video card driver. What do you guys think?
 
Mint 12 is actually the newest released distro i've fooled with in a while man
seems 100% just as good as 11 so far. Not saying anything won't come up though.
Been using it for several days and it supports all my hardware perfectly
 
I would guess Ubuntu 10.04.3 would be one of the more stable builds. I am using CAElinux which is based off of it and it is rock stable.

However, you have the arch enemy of Linux for a video card. It is generally harder to run a AMD/ATI card than Nvidia or Intel.
 
wolfeking said:
I would guess Ubuntu 10.04.3 would be one of the more stable builds. I am using CAElinux which is based off of it and it is rock stable.

However, you have the arch enemy of Linux for a video card. It is generally harder to run a AMD/ATI card than Nvidia or Intel.
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Oh don't I know it. Though, In Mint 12, it didn't cause problems. Which, surprised me. Fedora, it crashed instantly.

What's different about CAElinux?
 
CAE has some engineering and design software preinstalled. If you don't do work with autoCAD or Inventor (including all programs of the type), then it is not a good choice for you.
 
i think NYX has. He wrote the WM section in the guide, so I assume he has used it before. I will point him tords this thread.
 
opensuse is pretty nice, dont know how it will treat you gpu but for me it was a stable
OSt hat came pretty well packaged. It is also the only linux distro that gave me a pleasant KDE experience.

Has anyone ever messed with BSD?
 
Troncoso said:
What are your thoughts on Enlightenment?
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I'm not a big fan of it personally. You know, if you just want a new window manager/ desktop environment, you can just install it and boot into it. There's no need to install a new distro if that's all you want. Now, if you're looking for something stable, I suggest a debian based distro.
 
What I think is amazing is debian based distro's are always recommended but I meet very few debian users, why do you think this is?
 
DMGrier said:
What I think is amazing is debian based distro's are always recommended but I meet very few debian users, why do you think this is?
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Good question. Honestly, there are so many spinoffs of debian based distros, (Like me :P ) there's already one out there for you. Pure debian is pretty plain, generic, and uncustomized. You have to know a good bit of what you want and how to do it to be a debian user. Most people don't care or don't know, and as such go use some other spinoff that already has this done for them, and well, can't blame them. I do it because I know exactly what I do need and don't, and i have no problem doing a lot of configuration and terminal work. It's all a matter of preference I think. Though, people like me usually tend to go to arch or gentoo, and are very elitists about it. Why, I don't know. I'm happy with debian, and If I want "bleeding edge" as arch puts it, I'll just use software out of the experimental repo's in debian.
 
NyxCharon said:
I'm not a big fan of it personally. You know, if you just want a new window manager/ desktop environment, you can just install it and boot into it. There's no need to install a new distro if that's all you want. Now, if you're looking for something stable, I suggest a debian based distro.
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I was just curious, is all. I've tried it myself now, and I agree. It's not very good.

You should suggest an actual debian-based distro. I'm not opposed to new things. I played around with Gentoo for the first time just a couple of days ago, and so far, I enjoy it.
If all else fails, I will just install Ubuntu 10.04. It was already very stable on release, and has plenty of time to update to improve.
 
Jumping in a little late here.

TL;DR, but LM12 became corrupt on my laptop when I once again dual-booted with it back in November, so I just scrubbed it.
 
voyagerfan99 said:
Jumping in a little late here.

TL;DR, but LM12 became corrupt on my laptop when I once again dual-booted with it back in November, so I just scrubbed it.
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I was having problem after problem with 12. When I finally got everything half working, I found that it would not properly register that the AC adapter was plugged in, so it would think that the laptop was dying. At this point, I just didn't want to deal with it anymore.
 
Troncoso said:
I was having problem after problem with 12. When I finally got everything half working, I found that it would not properly register that the AC adapter was plugged in, so it would think that the laptop was dying. At this point, I just didn't want to deal with it anymore.
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My issue was something happened when I put my laptop to sleep and it wouldn't resume. I just got the wallpaper; no icons, mouse, or anything. I did a force shutdown and when it rebooted the clock was missing and my apps wouldn't open.
 
Never any problems with LM12, other then it is Ubuntu remix essentially and it has two desktop U/I's like the developer cant make up his mind on which one to use. Other then Ubuntu I had a great experience with Fedora other then it comes extremely stripped down so you have to install a lot of codecs and software to make it a really functioning OS along with updates about every two to three days.
 
okay that is just silly, it is Ubuntu with some packages removed, why not just use ubuntu. Plus they didn't even redo anything to the UI.

If you want a Ubuntu based distro that is something kind of different but well built then you all should try elementary OS, It has the same packages and a n few different ones like I know they built the web browser and a few other things. Decent looking but deficiently not fast growing and a small online community.

http://elementaryos.org/
 
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