What Linux distribution do you prefer and why?
  • avinashavinash
    There are many Linux distributions. According to Distrowatch, the most popular ones right now are: Mint, Ubuntu, Fedora, openSUSE, Debian, Arch, PCLinuxOS, CentOS, Puppy and Mandriva.

    Personally, I use CentOS and Debian on my servers and they both rock: they are as stable and as easy to administer.

    I have been using Fedora 16 on my laptop for some months now and I like it a lot even though there are still some, well, glitches with the Intel driver and Gnome 3 is temperamental and incomplete. There are plenty of packages and it's easy to transform a stock Fedora installation into a quite formidable and productive system. I switched to Fedora after spending some years with Ubuntu and Mint because, well, it's nice to change from time to time.

    So what are you using right now? And why?
  • shaneshane
    I'm currently using FreeBSD and Debian on servers, mostly because that's what I'm used to. They've been good to me over the years. Rock solid and dependable. I'm also using Ubuntu server on a few development VMs.

    I don't currently have a Linux workstation though.
  • maripurimaripuri
    I am current using ubuntu 10.04 on my servers at PESSE. Been using it since 2 years and so far had no glitches. Got ubuntu 11.04 on my laptop, there seems to be slight performance issues. Haven't tried other distributions, so not quite in a position to evaluate the best one.
  • avinashavinash
    Hi @maripuri aka Dilip!

    Ubuntu is a very good distribution too as is Mint which is derived from it. We're lucky to have so many good operating systems around now. When I started Linux in 1999, things were tougher but I have to say that this allowed me to become a good troubleshooter :-)

    Incidentally, I always say that using something like Gentoo (http://www.gentoo.org/) which favours compilation from source is also a very good way to learn how Linux really works.
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