Whats your distro? (u know this poll had to happen eventually LOL)

Was running Ubuntu, but I am in the process of switching to Debian, heh, actually as we speak. I have a dual boot system, so I have windows xp on here as well. I intend to rerun ubuntu though, as Kbuntu, and also have damn small linux on my last partition as well. So then I will be running Debian, Kbuntu, and DSL.... if that goes as planned... I will let you know.

Voted Debian, cause everything else comes from debian anyways, Ubuntu, DSL, Kbuntu, and oh yeah, I been a knoppix user since 3.1, even if it was just to save files from my hd crashing. knoppix is from Debian as well, so heh... I guess I am the debian fan.

Oh, and I am not a tech guy.... at all. I just understand the basics.

ArchLinux.
It's fast, stable, and you don't have to waste time compiling packages if you don't want to (and there's no loss in using binary packages)

What, no OpenWRT?

Nah, another vote goes to Gentoo from another zealot. I also use FreeBSD on a server or two and OpenWRT on some portable development routers.

Tried installing it on Slackware and got nowhere. For other reasons, since have switched to Fedora Core 4, and still can't get it to install. I'm at work right now, but maybe I'll post the error I'm getting when I get home and reboot into Linux. Also getting erros when I try to run the Windows version in WINE, but that's another issue.

I went ahead and voted other even though I am on Vector Linux, which is essentially Slackware. SL runs fine on Vector Linux 5 with my AMD Athlon 750mhz, 768 mb of ram, and ATI Radeon 9500 pro. Every so often it will lock up and require a hard reboot to restart my machine, but on an alpha client on crappy hardware...thats to be expected.

I am running Ultima Linux version 8sp1 (based on slackware). I can't seem to figure out how to install the Linux alpha version. The windows version under Wine quit working, something about my clock not syncing. I am trying to figure out how to install the Linux alpha version.

Use the installer script
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As strange as this may seem change wine to use the OSS Driver for Audio in winecfg.

Run it on Gentoo and Mandriva, both of the 2.6 kernel flavor.

Of the two, Gentoo is more friendly. I have to nuke the directory and remake it each time I run it on Mandriva. In Gentoo, it just works.

I used to run mandrake, it almost put me off Linux for life.

Oh well, so I end up here, too My Sig says it all. SuSE 10.0 as of now (10.1 soon, I hope) 64 bit variant. I've been a SuSE user since I started with Linux in 1998 (SuSE 5.3 I believe) and stayed on SuSE until today.

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I can't believe I didn't post here!

SUSE 10.0 at the moment, like Zi. Hoping for 10.1 soon. I have used SUSE since 4.4, and just stuck with it, upgrading (which is LOTS of fun) every so often...

I only lost the chain once, on one computer, when the hard disk didn't want to play any more

As Jeffrey says, in Gentoo it just works.

Gentoo is an odd beast. After several years, I've now realized why it's probably the best Linux distro: it's because it doesn't store up problems for posterity.

When you emerge a package, it's built against the current state of your system, which is first upgraded automatically if there's a dependency. And when you run the occasional "emerge world", your whole system becomes the latest stable Gentoo. As a result, old crap doesn't stay around to bite your butt. Note also that this means that code with known security bugs doesn't hang around either, so crackers wanting to bite your butt get a mouthful of nothingness.

There are lots of good distros (and I've used most of them), but ultimately only a sources-based distro stays "current" against all its dependencies, whereas all the others age between vendor releases as only a fraction of their binaries get rebuilt inter-release, usually only under the pressure of security advisaries. This makes distros like Gentoo more stable, more capable, and more efficient, all at the same time. (You type "emerge world" and then go to bed, so the time it takes for these advantages to manifest is quite irrelevant.)

Be that as it may, the proof of the pudding is in the eating, and most things "just work" in Gentoo. The SL client is no exception.

This article is more or less why I switched to Gentoo:
http://www.germane-software.com/~ser/Files/Essays/RPM_Hell.html

That, and a friend had used it and liked it.

I didn't try the linux client yet, but I will do as soon I get 3D acceleration working again.

I voted "Debian" as I'll be using the Debian-based isgee-linux (http://computing.ee.ethz.ch/neptun/debian/)

edit 2006-10-30: It took me some time to get everything up an running. My system's now a gentoo and SL works just great on it for about a month. First i tried the ebuild posted somewhere in this forum, but for ease of installation and updating I switched to the slutils tools.

Well, I'm currently using SUSE 10.0 OSS, but chances are I'll be switching over to Gentoo soon. Like... probably tonight or something. I have Linux phases that I go through.... Start using one of the polished, self-contained, huge amounts of included software distros, then go to Gentoo. And I've done this at least three or four times now. Maybe I'll stick with Gentoo this time

I'm in the proccess of installing Ubuntu onto my second comp to run SL and not knowing a damn thing about Linux at the moment so it's going to be interesting. At least however im not as concerned on wiehter or not Ubuntu is a good Distro because it's the most widely used out of everyone who's voted.