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Hmm, I don`t know. I am still a newbie in all this Linux world, so I will still stick to my Suse, which is like windows, with linux kernel. It is good for start, but slackware rulez, but you should be advanced linux user...

Yeah i'm newbie in linux too but tried and used few linux distros, like SuSe, Slackware, FedoraCore, Unbuntu, Knopix ^^ but most of these distros are used just in console doesn't ever saw a StartX :-)

willdraven wrote:I'm currently using gentoo, before that it was slackware with a brief stint with ubuntu between, while i liked ubuntus package management system its default of using gnome (or kde for the kubuntu version) was a bit much for my 450mhz PII Katmai with 192mb of ram, so gentoo+xfce is where i am now.

Hah, I remember Katmai processors. Those were the days. I bought a box new in '99 with a 450MHz P3 Katmai in it, and I still have it to this day, it's sitting somewhere in the house running Win2k...

About the Linux distro deal, I am personally (don't hold it against me) a fan of Fedora-based systems just because I know my way around in them. I have a laptop running a modified FC3 distro called BLAG (http://www.blagblagblag.org/) and a workstation running FC4 as a headless server in my bedroom. However I run most services like DHCP and DNS on a FreeBSD box.

i am currently using CentOS...
from what i heard... it's a distro that's almost exactly like RHEL
(:

I originally started out with SuSE 9.3 Enterprise Edition. Boy was that a bad idea! I'm on dial-up and hadn't figured out how to get a driver for my winmodem so the system wasn't really usable by me. I had no interest in running a webserver or a Samba File share.

Luckily, I switched to Ubuntu, ditching the GNOME desktop for KDE. After that, most everything became easier. I've used those 2 distros, BSD, Gentoo, and some Live CDs.

BSD isn't a linux distro :-) it's just another *nix OS :-)

Ubuntu,
I fell in love with that distro when I run the LiveCD. :)
I also tried SuSE 9.2 on my computer and FC3 on a friend's one.

Otherwise, remotelly I've used many distros from console only.

I liked BSD (FreeBSD), but I never could get into it as my Desktop OS. I now use Debian, and I really have to say I love it. I guess it's apt-get that makes me like it so much.

I've tried Fedora (core 3, I believe), but I didn't enjoy it too much. I don't really know why I didn't like it, but I know I'll never install it again.

I tried Gentoo, but I just couldn't stick with it. I hear it's amazingly fast, though.

My first Linux distro was Mandrake 9.1, which was installed on my comp. about two years ago. After having some problems with it, I tried using Gentoo, but I didn't like it at the time, so I tried Slackware
I've been using Slackware for something over a year now...
I like it because it's simple, and it makes you learn Linux, instead of holding you by the hand and leading you through relatively simple tasks, like other distros do

I use Fedora Core 3, before that I have installed several slackware distributions and RedHat 9. I am thinking about trying out FC4, yet I need to first find out whats new in this distribution.

What good have fedora cores than debian or slackware?

I am currently using Ubuntu 5.10 codename "Breezy Badger". It's all this system will run.

I started using Linux about two months ago.

I was sick and tired of "Winzozz" (that's what Italian people call Windows like...in english it should be something like "WinDirt"....i noe, it's not the same ) and I decided to keep another lil' box to try SuSe 9.2...WHAT A WASTE OF TIME! I was drowning alone in the sea of Kde....My Godness!!!
I was so shocked by the "impact" that I almost forgot that name (SuSe) since I've met a friend that knew Ubuntu.

I tried Ubuntu and...I...."felt in love" with it! I think it's great! I formatted my Winzozz PC to install it and I'm very proud of it!

I think this stuff sounds like an ugly comedy....it's just the truth, i felt in love with an OS....

Seems like Ubuntu will soon take over the world, rofl.

Iam using fedora core3 dual booting with windowsXP. The only reason im using XP is that i have to study windows programming.