Personally I like Mandrake, im gonna install Mandrake 8 on my new system.

I like Debian, Slack, and Mandrake(for ease of use).

Slackware 7.1 with major modifications and upgrades is what runs on my computer. I keep the kernel up-to-date and other things such as KDE/Gnome/and Xfree. It all works great.

Well, I'm lazy and I use RedHat 7.1. It's what I know and it works for me. That plus my ISP has a mirror of RedHat's ftp server, which makes all those upgrades and updates pretty easy.

quote:Originally posted by MrNiCeGUi:
Well, I'm lazy and I use RedHat 7.1. It's what I know and it works for me. That plus my ISP has a mirror of RedHat's ftp server, which makes all those upgrades and updates pretty easy.

I too, dig RH7.1, More so than Mandrake 8. BTW, for those interested, i got the nvidia drivers running with the tar gzips in RH7.1.

I like the one with the little red, green, blue, and yellow flag on it. Err, wrong topic...

quote:Originally posted by blppt:
I too, dig RH7.1, More so than Mandrake 8. BTW, for those interested, i got the nvidia drivers running with the tar gzips in RH7.1.

I like redhat 7.1 and mandrake 8, I have both, but I am using redhat right now. I also got the nvidia drivers working but
I used the source rpm's and did an rpm --rebuild on them, that worked fine too. I'm sure that would work on mandrake, so I may install that one and try it out.

quote:Originally posted by Vadatajs:
I like redhat 7.1 and mandrake 8, I have both, but I am using redhat right now. I also got the nvidia drivers working but
I used the source rpm's and did an rpm --rebuild on them, that worked fine too. I'm sure that would work on mandrake, so I may install that one and try it out.

It didnt work for me---i got a lot of header errors or something. I tried every rpm on that page and the tar gzips, but there was always an error with the NVdriver file. Nobody i have talked to with Mandrake 8 has been successful with getting the drivers installed. Work great on RH7.1 though. Since its almost the exact same distro (minus some apps, an an slightly earlier kernel [2.4.2[) i really have no reason to go back to Mandrake. ;-)

Slackware and SuSE I like.

Caldera OpenLinux 2.4!. I have used Mandrake 7 also but Caldera's is just more straightforward to use. I configured my DSL internet connection in a snap while in Mandrake I couldn't (I don't know, the network section in DrakConf was a little complicated).

Am using SuSE7.1 and Mandrake7.2 cause they are newbie friendly,but I like Libranet1.9 also

I personally like Debian. I've been with Debian since 2.0.32. I like the ease of upgrading with the combination apt-get/aptitude. Further, from what I've seen, Debian's configuration most resembles Unix. FWIW. -mk

I personally use SuSE 7.0

Probably because of the amount of software you actully get with the full distro. Saves me my internet phone bill in the long run.

I prefer Caldera and Slakware.

Jim

I'd definately recommend getting a deluxe version of Linux Mandrake. I have version 7.1 and am very happy with it. The installer is able to partition your hard drive, detect and setup hardware, and setup a dual-boot very easily. Another reason I really like it is that it comes with tons of software! In total it's 7 cds of which 2 are source code.