Which Linux?

[Hexidecimal]

Do You all use? I'm running the gambit it would seem, this week I've tried FC2 FC3 Mandrake and am now headed to SuSe trying to find something I like and is also able to use my 6800..

Any suggestions towards where to start would also be helpful, I really like the fact that Mandrake auto installed my video card, but dislike basically everything else about it.

[Knuckles]

Well, it's hard to say, we use Mandrake at school and I use it here..... but I use Knoppix as an emergency OS.....

damn 1 option only polls :P

[Malcolm]

My Giga-byte GA-K8NXP-SLI


$ lspci
0000:00:00.0 Memory controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 Memory Controller (rev a3)
0000:00:01.0 ISA bridge: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0050 (rev a3)
0000:00:01.1 SMBus: nVidia Corporation CK804 SMBus (rev a2)
0000:00:02.0 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a2)
0000:00:02.1 USB Controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 USB Controller (rev a3)
0000:00:04.0 Multimedia audio controller: nVidia Corporation CK804 AC'97 Audio Controller (rev a2)
0000:00:06.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 IDE (rev a2)
0000:00:07.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev a3)
0000:00:08.0 IDE interface: nVidia Corporation CK804 Serial ATA Controller (rev a3)
0000:00:09.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCI Bridge (rev a2)
0000:00:0a.0 Bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 Ethernet Controller (rev a3)
0000:00:0b.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
0000:00:0c.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
0000:00:0d.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
0000:00:0e.0 PCI bridge: nVidia Corporation CK804 PCIE Bridge (rev a3)
0000:01:0a.0 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Texas Instruments TSB82AA2 IEEE-1394b Link Layer Controller (rev 01)
0000:02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Marvell Technology Group Ltd. Gigabit Ethernet Controller (rev 19)
0000:05:00.0 VGA compatible controller: nVidia Corporation: Unknown device 0140 (rev a2)

I've got a 6600GT in here, works great - even does XORG composite with 3d rendering. Biggest pain was getting multi-stream sound going with the onboard sound card which just got fixed.

And what got me there? Gentoo! No other distro has such advanced x86_64 support information and testing. Trust me, I looked everywhere for 6600GT PCI-E fixes and the dmix fix for the on board sound. Google pointed me to the Gentoo forums and the ALSA doc pages (which suck).
Right now I'm...
http://www.ibiblio.org/web-gentoo/images/powered.jpg

[Jakob]

gentoo if you have time, and you can do without certain things like photoshop:/ or my remote control(creative rm-1500), otherwise I'd be there, always hated windows, yet here I am:/

[smcd]

I use slackware at work on my machine. Other machines there use Redhat stuff, gets on my nerves. I've heard good things about debian but never gotten around to using it, same with gentoo - just beware gentoo is supposed to take some effort. Knoppix is OK for a live distro. SuSe is, in my opinion, the best "commercial" distro.

[Martin]

I voted Redhat/Fedora since our servers use that. :P

[PsyMan]

I voted for Gentoo but the choice depends on what (and how) you want to do.
If you have a lot of free time go for Gentoo; If you want easy configuration try SuSe. It's up to you and your needs :)

[Falcon4ever]

I just voted for Gentoo Linux, my favorite easy customizable distro.

sethmcdoogle: It takes some time to setup your gentoo box (from stage2) but it's worth it (i think)

/me loves gentoo portage

[Stezo2k]

Suse all the way for me, looks really nice and does all the things i want to do with it :)

[JinXD]

Use both Fedora Core 3 and SuSe 9.2, though use SuSe the most....

[2fast4u]

i use SuSE currently and im quite pleased with it.

[Talas]

I dont use Linux yet but a friend of mine told me that Debian is the most stable one.

[Malcolm]

There really ins't a most stable Linux, it's all about what your hardware is and what programs and services you're running on top of the kernel :)

[Eagle]

gentoo if you have time, and you can do without certain things like photoshop:/ or my remote control(creative rm-1500), otherwise I'd be there, always hated windows, yet here I am:/

Since when? Photoshop works fine for me on Gentoo.

[Falcon4ever]

I've another question next to the poll, how big is your linux distro (installed with your favorite apps?)

[smcd]

I've another question next to the poll, how big is your linux distro (installed with your favorite apps?)

Don't know exactly since I have data and all on here but I'm guessing around 1.5 - 2GB (KDE & gnome taking up a fair amount of that)

Another question to toss in: what filesystem(s) do you prefer? I like reiserfs.

[Hexidecimal]

Im using SuSe for the moment, so far I like it, I was very unimpressed with Mandrake, the 2 things I did like about it didn't out weigh the things I disliked, so far I am pleased with SuSe, I didnt like it the first time i tried it a couple years ago at 9.0 but 9.2 is slick, and it might even install my video card for me. I'll let you know which one I decide to stick with.

Edit: I really like SuSe 9.2, enabled 3D Acceleration automatically, 9633 FPS GLXGEARS, whee. One question, is there an RPM package installer for SuSe so I can just double click on an RPM and have it start installing?

[Jakob]

Since when? Photoshop works fine for me on Gentoo.
photoshop running under wine has certain things about it that really irk me, it is bloody annoying as fuck and I refuse to do that again.

[Malcolm]

I've another question next to the poll, how big is your linux distro (installed with your favorite apps?)

malcolm@malcolm ~ $ df -h
Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/sda3 10G 3.0G 7.1G 30% /
/dev/sda1 49G 23G 27G 46% /mnt/windows
/dev/sda5 6.9G 1.2G 5.8G 17% /home
/dev/sda6 5.9G 93M 5.8G 2% /var
/dev/sda7 3.0G 1.3G 1.8G 42% /usr/portage/distfiles
/dev/hda2 45G 15G 31G 33% /mnt/share
/dev/hda5 63G 67M 63G 1% /mnt/sharehard
none 501M 0 501M 0% /dev/shm
So just under 3gb, packages installed is pretty big (http://www.thenwing.com/pack_list.txt)

[2fast4u]

One question, is there an RPM package installer for SuSe so I can just double click on an RPM and have it start installing?

suse ships one with their distros actually. check if you have "kdebase3-suse" installed since the kde3 prompts you to remove it before installing the newer release.

[t0rek]

I prefer Suse right now... I used Slackware sometime ago... but I'm too lazy to manually configure the stuff manually...

[Hexidecimal]

suse ships one with their distros actually. check if you have "kdebase3-suse" installed since the kde3 prompts you to remove it before installing the newer release.

I should have clarified, it works in KDE fine, I install with Yast2, but I prefer Gnome, its just cleaner and faster for me, but theres no RPM Handler built in to SuSe running gnome, you can use terminal, but I was hoping for a Package Handler like FC3's.

[Falcon4ever]

Hmm i can't seem to find KDevelop on SuSe 9.2 (yast2)... can you guys?

[Hexidecimal]

I've decided that the best way to do it is just use the terminal, it isnt that hard, and if it doesnt work you can switch to KDE for 30 seconds and it installs fine.

[Slougi]

Been using Gentoo since 1.2 :D

[Hexidecimal]

After I get a good enough knowledge of how linux works I plan to tackle Gentoo next.

[soccerboi00]

Right now I'm using Ubuntu. An amazing first release. Don't be fooled by the version 4.10. Fourth year, 10th month. Get it? Oh yeah, they also send you an absolutlutly FREE cd. They pay for shipping and everything. Really great. Ubuntu is also based off Debian, so it can run .deb installers

[Eagle]

After I get a good enough knowledge of how linux works I plan to tackle Gentoo next.

Tackling gentoo is what teaches you the knowlege of how linux works. I didn't learn anything about linux until my first install of gentoo.

[2bzy4ne1]

I finally got a dual boot going in my computer. :icecream:

Right now, I'm using Mandrake, but I'm still very n00bish on it. Once I can get everything all set up, I think everything should be running smoothly. :paperbag: