Linux user poll

It's good to see so much Slackware support here -- I'm honestly surprised. It's been the only Linux distro that comes close to the *BSD feel I prefer. given I started with FreeBSD ten years ago. Personally, I run OS X for a desktop at the moment, so the issue is moot for me. I'm keeping an eye on Kubuntu/Ubuntu for other reasons. Just thought I'd chime in with 'If I ran Linux, it'd be Slackware'.

Yes, on Fedora Core 4. My home machine runs Linux 99% of the time; I only left Windows 2000 on it to run...you guessed it...SL. Once there is a decent Linux client, I have no further reasons to boot into Windows at home.

So, come on, LL. Release the Linux client, no matter what its state may be. The Linux community would help debug it; they're used to that sort of feedback process.

Yeah, I'm a little surprised too, pleasantly so. I started with Slackware 3.5 if I remember right, on an assload of 3.5" floppies. Tried others off and on with other machines, but they always make me fussy about their implementation, so all my machines stay Slackware.

I run it 100% of the time, SL and all. Come over to the light side of the force, my friend. Don't let The Man keep you down!

I'd use Ubuntu.

I will prolly be giving up windows once SL comes out except for my design/animation work. once a decent graphics suite and full-on wacom support are moved to linux, expect to see me on ubuntu full time.

Ubuntu.

Slackware is great - been running it for 2 years, but I'm too lazy to bother with manual conf these days.

I use OpenSuse on my laptop which isn't powerful enough to run SL and dualboot Linspire/M$ Krap on my desktop. I use Linspire because its the only one i can get to install the video drivers and have it work correctly with out too much fuss but now that i upgraded my comp to an SLI system with two nvidia 7800 GT cards. When I get them working correctly, with or without SLI mode, I will probably be using Linux 99.9% of the time.

Oh i would also like to mention that i use Synergy to use one keyboard and mouse with my desktop when in windows and my linux laptop. it syncs the clipboard and lets you slide the mouse off the edge of the screen from one computer to the other. the keyboard switches to which ever computer the mouse pointer is on. its awesome.

The worlds best distro.

8 installs every second...

I'd use slackware myself, but only until I took the uber-nerd route and wrote up my own distro around and designed for the SL client.

Might be able to get it streamlined to run SL as good as possible, but mostly just for the hell of it.

I nuked my Win XP install and this was the first distro I found that I could get all my hardware properly configured on.

Ubuntu does contain a driver for every piece of equipment ever conceived by the mind of humanity that's for sure.

I've got quite a few linux boxes, so I'll just list the distros I currently use.

CentOS 4.x
Fedora core
Ubuntu

Only reason i am running windoze is because of SL, and it pains me to have to use such a crappy OS. As soon as a native Linux client is out, I will be booting up into Ubuntu on my main PC with Centos and Gentoo on my others.

Yep...I can't wait. Running Debian. And with most recent apt-get (2 days ago), I now have full 3D acceleration with my ATI 9600SE, using GPL-only drivers. Joy!

I installed Wine and Second Life on my Ubuntu box today, but am giving up after spending the whole day unsuccessfully getting the sound to work. If I'm going to play this game, it's going to have to be throught my windows partition.

I'm putting in my two cents and voting for Ubuntu. The most user freindly distro available. After trying a few distros, Ubuntu is the first one that ran all my hardware. I'm actually at a point where I am thinking about taking you know waht off my machine and I can't wait for that day. Of course, that day wil not come if I can't run SL on Ubuntu. So please hurry with this.

Sure will, another thing less to run on Windows.

Distro? Debian. Exclusively since 1996 (okay, there's a 5GB Gentoo install here, but I did that only out of curiousity).

Mandrake (cause im lazy and it seems that the software i use most is in RPM files and not in deb's)

and Slackware

I had feodra core installed, it didnt pick up my cd burner or my soundblaster live or my windows partition, and it thinks my wlan connection is a beachball , also everytime i updated it it seemed to break 3 more software packages =/ Im no linux guru and i dont really want to spend all my time reading fedora forums and fiddling with crap, Especially since mandrake is basicly the same and it has 0 (no none nada) of the above problems *shrug*

Yep, I've been using the Windows version in WINE for a while now, on Gentoo. After many failed attempts using Cedega (and one qualified success), I tried regular WINE and it worked.

Trouble is, alpha on clothing doesn't seem to work anymore - that is, all my see-through clothes no longer are.

If it'll run under Linux emulation in FreeBSD, I'd be interested.

If I have to dual-boot to Linux to run it, that's not much difference to dual-booting to Windows.

However... IF you could put it on a LiveCD so I could boot into SL on Knoppix or something, THAT would be seriously cool. You could just take the CD with you and boot SLinux without having to install a client.

I will be running it on Linux if it runs well. I currently have my gaming machine setup to dual boot between XP and Linspire.

http://www.linspire.com

Big problem with Linspire is that it runs the default user as 'root' without a password. This effectively cancels pretty much all the security features a normal Linux distrobution has going for it, and opens it to worms, and what not - worse than windows itself.

i remember my linspire install asking me for a separate root password.

I installed Suse on my notebook and SecondLife runs smoothly with wine.

I currently have a gaming Windows partition. SecondLife on Suse runs at a lightly lower fps than my gaming Windows, and actually faster than my other Windows installation which is tuned for work.

I can't wait for the native SL viewer on Linux.