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1. Peter S | Nov 15, 2010 | Reply

   I really like ubuntu and kubuntu… But I hear great things about red hat and fedora.

2. G4JC | Nov 15, 2010 | Reply

   User preference. IMO the best are Ubuntu and Sabayon. Ubuntu has the best community support, and Sabayon has the best stuff packaged all into one distro without the need to download anything else (drivers, games, tools, etc.).

   http://www.ubuntu.com – Ubuntu
   http://www.sabayonlinux.org/ – Sabayon

3. jplatt39 | Nov 15, 2010 | Reply

   I’m writing this on slackware. I first used it in 1994 at college where I was a user with no administrative privileges, now I’m running it on a dual-boot laptop where the kernel is one which I compiled myself. It’s one of the oldest still-maintained distros and one I keep coming back to though I go away a lot. It’s also the closest to a “vanilla Linux” and would probably run on your machine though you would have to maintain it.

   I installed this as a dual boot because I was having trouble on Gentoo (the other OS) after an upgrade to xserver-xorg 1.5 broke X-Windows for months (I got it working again last Friday). I started with Gentoo after a laptop my niece’s husband gave me had it on it. It breaks all the time, but it’s fun.

   Debian is what is on my desktop. Debian testing. That’s another self-compiled kernel (Gentoo DEMANDS you compile your own kernel). It probably has the best package-management system of all the distros. dpkg and apt are SO good they form the basis of the package management systems of Ubuntu, Linux Mint and other derivatives (though Linux Mint has made some changes). I have some live cds around. One of them is fedora core 11. Fedora and I have a history too. I use live cds like popcorn, but I wouldn’t put it on a hard drive any more because I’ve gotten addicted to smaller faster computers.

4. Lasiaf | Nov 15, 2010 | Reply

   i have ubuntu installed on all my pc

5. KarL | Nov 15, 2010 | Reply

   I have only tried Ubuntu, but have used openSUSE running KDE in the university library. I’d have to say Ubuntu is a good choice for beginners. openSUSE is not that bad. It’s got a lot of eyecandies.

   I have downloaded five other distributions to try next month when I’ve got my laptop (openSUSE, Mandriva, Fedora, Debian and Linux Mint). I’ll tell you my Linux stories later.

6. TBRMInsanity | Nov 15, 2010 | Reply

   I like to use this tool to find the best Linux distro to use for a specific task:
   http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/index.php?firsttime=true

   That being said I always seem to gravitate toward Debian based Linux distros (mainly Ubuntu). I like how there are tons of .deb files available through Synaptic (more then any other distro) and most .debs work on any Debian based distro (can’t say the same about RPM). I will use an RPM based distro (usually RHEL or Fedora) if I plan to use the computer for business as I find more companies tend to release programs as RPMs rather then .debs .

7. non-existant | Nov 15, 2010 | Reply

   I’m currently using Ubuntu 9.04, but Linux Mint looks just as good

   So far I’ve tried:
   Ubuntu
   Open Solaris
   Fedora
   Mint
   Mandriva
   Foresight
   EasyPeasy
   Kubuntu
   Xubuntu
   Lin-X
   nUbuntu
   Open Suse
   GoblinX
   Knoppix
   Zeven OS
   Debian
   and Absolute

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