Best Linux Distro

[The_Fuzz]

What do you think is the best distro?

I like Slax popcorn or Kill Bill they have Xfce (popcorn) and Wine (kill bill) and they are live with the option to insatll on your system!

Also Sam 1.1 is great!

PS Sam and Slax are faster than Yoper, Yoper is not the fastest

[c00lryguy]

umm...kill bill?

[The_Fuzz]

http://slax.linux-live.org/download.php
look here the difference is it comes with wine

[c00lryguy]

why is it called kill bill though, is it based on the movie or something

[Sam]

I like Yoper, and all the Live-CDs. Try debian and Slackware.. Maybe Blag 10k?

[crusty]

Kill Bill, as in Bill Gates.

[Sam]

Kill Bill, as in Bill Gates.

[c00lryguy]

ok...I though it had to do with the movie...if it was i would have glanced at it

[Galactus]

Me = Linux

Also, linux isn't all about glitz and flash. If Yoper or Slax came with KDE 3.1 instead of 3.3 I'll bet a lot of you would think it sucked! There has been a lot of improvement on making it all the more ocmplete and comfortable to be in. That said, Slax hands down ships the prettiest KDE ;)

There's really no way to say what make the 'best' linux cause it is used for so many different reasons. Some people fancy speediness, so they go with something optimized for their hardware. Some people fancy stability so they use distros like Slack or Debian that others might consider far behind in terms of bleeding edge. Some people use a distro that tries to be Windows-like in that it will try to hold your hand through everything in your linux experience. And then of course, you have small distros built specifically for stuff like firewalling.

That being said, I can think of four distros that have ever really pleased me.

One was novelty, that would be Mepis. I really liked Mepis at first because it was the first distro I tried that I could compile ndiswrapper on, and finally use the net. Then as I learned more I discovered that I couldn't on other distros because I hadn't installed all the necessary stuff, or something like kernel sources were missing. Anyway, I didn't use Mepis long, come to think of it I'm not that big of a fan of it. It's pretty great for newbies though.

Two have pleased me much but displease me as well. Slackware is awesome, because as nice as stuff like yum or apt-get is, it's nice to build everything yourself if you want to upgrade, and hey you might just find a .tgz package to make stuff even easier. But it got old to me, the system gets old. The stability is great, but it's just absolute hell to compile some things on Slackware. I got fed up with it.

The other of that category is Debian. Currently I'm using 3.1 (sarge), and it's super fantastic. I don't feel overwhelmed by rpms or anything like that, and there's practically a .deb package for everything. It's craziness. On the downside, something about it just irk me.

Lastly there's Blag. Blag 10000 was my sole OS for a long time, much longer than any other distro. The Blag folks take a RedHat/Fedora release and strip it down, then add extra goodies to make an utterly brilliant distro, and it's all on one CD. It has an excellent rpm repository and you could also use repo's from the also brilliant Dag or Ayo (freshrpms) collection without running into any problems. Blag 20K is perpetually stuck in the Alpha because of FC2s issues with jacking up windows installations, and Jebba just rolled out the first 30K alpha not too long ago, but something was corrupt in the installer so no one's had a shot at it.

Seriously, Blag 10k might just be the finest distro to ever grace your hdd. I only switched because I was getting bored with it, I like to hop a lot and being tied down to one distro for that long got to me. Go try Blag, now. http://www.blagblagblag.org -- 10000 is the last stable release so if you just click the download button that's what you'll get.