I know we all use Ubuntu, but do any of you use anything else? I run my servers at work on Debian, because of it's famed stability. I'm also working with CentOS, because most of the datacenters around here run that or an RPM-based distro.
Other Distros
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I have Damn Small running on a older laptop of mine, and it works like a charm. I do use Fedora a bit at school, also
I've never used DSL.
I like it because it allows me to run a modern OS on a system that could otherwise only handle windows 98. It doesn't do power management as well as some of the other distros, but it's not that big of a deal since the laptop I put it on generally doesn't get unplugged much.
Who wouldn't want to run the wonderful glory that was windows 98? =P
I still like tinkering with them all. To my wife's dismay, I like to install and test different linux flavors. I just downloaded PCLinux & CentOS to play with over the weekend.
But I always come back to the Xubuntu and will switch over to Fluxbuntu, once it's released.
Oooh, there's gonna be a Ubuntu with Fluxbox natively installed? I've been thinking about running fluxbox/openbox and that would be a cure for my lazyness
Yup.. I can't wait... Eye candy is kool and all, but I like the more minimalistic approach to DE's.
I'm with you there. I'll probably give KDE4 a try when it comes out but I prefer the lightweight GUIs
I run xfce4 now. I don't have any issue with it, but I've used Fluxbox/BlackBox before and miss it.
The site's down for the moment (obviously), but one that they state about Fluxbuntu, is that it isn't just Ubuntu-Server with Fluxbox. They actually are trying to slim everything down and not load anything that isn't a necessity.
That's another reason I'm looking at it. As it is, I do a command line install and run a small script to install all the appz I want.
Now I've got a question, what's the difference between Blackbox, fluxbox and openbox? I've read the wikipedia page and saw the list of differences, but is there a functional difference between the three or do they all run the same?
Nothing really. The only real difference is that FLuxbox is still being developed and that's why there are now differences. It was based off BlackBox.
Centos5 on the server, ubuntu 7.10 on all the rest.
we've got redhat at work (yuck) and i still have 1 machine running pclinuxos.
Why do you say yuck about Red Hat? Just because you're an Ubuntu kind of guy, or because you actually don't like the quality of your product?