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Which distro do you use for the desktop?

SuSE
14
15%
Red Hat/Fedora
23
25%
Mandrake
8
9%
Debian
7
8%
Slackware
11
12%
Gentoo
5
5%
Lindows
2
2%
Not linux, but a BSD
4
4%
Other (too many to list them all)
11
12%
Ubuntu
6
7%
 
Total votes: 91

myleow
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for average office use

Post by myleow »

What about Vector Linux? It is a derivative from Slackware but suppose to be more light weight.

Actually, what do you think is the BEST distro for office use.

It has to be easily maintained by Administrators. Easy upgrade-able and other stuff that makes maintaining the network and dealing with outbreaks an ease. (If there is such a thing)

Lightweight, not clustered with alot of different programs that comes default.

and other things that you might think of that are useful for an Office use system. Oh and intuitive GUI but most of the major distros has this with KDE or GNOME anyway.

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Post by Daisy Cutter »

both munjoy and yoper, depending on my mood and bandwidth.
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Post by Breckenridge »

I use RedHat Ent., Fedora, Suse and Mandrake on 3 desktops and a notebook. I like mandrake the best. it has fast and easy to use package installer and it's ready to play all of your MM files as well as DVDs stright out of the box.

I also use MAC os/x 10.3 which makes my linux desktops just sit and collect dust. for your next hardware purchase try a lower end powerbook; my 1.33 GHz 12 inch powerbook ($1600) is faster than my 2.66Ghz HP running Mandrake.
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LInux Geek

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I'm new to Linux. I made the switch from windows this year. I know Mac, Windows and Linux. Currently I'm using Linspire (formerly known as Lindows). I've tried Mandrake. I'm thinking about switching to SuSe but I kind of like Linspire and may just stay where I am...
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Being Forced!

Post by AnarKy »

We were forced to use Windows XP At University :(

But we loaded Suse onto an unused partition of a few pc's.
Without approval :twisted:

Nobody seemed to mind :)

Esp. since The Comp. Science Chair was promoting unix / linux based systems.
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wow your University must be rich!
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Post by outlaw »

i chose Fedora because i like it and i think its very user friendly for
anyone new and good enough for experienced users.Although any linux distro
is a good choice.

for entertainment i think mandrivia is best.
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Post by Skara »

I've tried SuSE, Mandrake, Red Hat, Fedora, Ubuntu, and a few live-cds. :P I have to say I like Mandrake the best. Fedora is a close second. Can't stand SuSE.
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Ubuntu and Knoppix

Post by AnarKy »

In terms of Live-CD's

I think that Knoppix is amongst the best... :wink:
excellent h/w detection and a nice package.
Ubuntu and Kubuntu (Ubuntu + KDE) is also quite good,
apart from a installation interface which might be a
bit tricky for an inexperienced user.

Live CD's are great :!:
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Post by flav »

Ubuntu :)
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Post by pilau »

Ubuntu indeed. It's like Gentoo, but more stable and friendlier for new Linux users.
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Red Hat

Post by sheila »

I've used Slackware and SuSE in the past. Currently using RedHat for development.. I picked it because it's popular with web hosts and I wanted to be most familar with the servers I have to work with. My own site is hosted on a FreeBSD machine.
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Re: LInux Geek

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neophyte wrote:I'm new to Linux. I made the switch from windows this year. I know Mac, Windows and Linux. Currently I'm using Linspire (formerly known as Lindows). I've tried Mandrake. I'm thinking about switching to SuSe but I kind of like Linspire and may just stay where I am...
Right now I currently have a dual boot laptop with Simply Mepis running on one partition.
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Post by Chris Corbyn »

I think I posted earlier in this thread about using SuSE... I don't now... Yast2 really started to p*ss me off with keeping stuff up-to-date. After having a successful run setting up and maintaining a server with Gentoo I'm now using that as my desktop distro of choice too. Compiling from source all the time *can* be a PITA though :( (At least I can get prebuilt packages and use the "k" flag ;) ) Needless to say... I'll probably go through a dozen distros before I settle on one for good. Arch Linux (AL) is pretty appealling in terms of learning as much as possible about the OS as you can - we use it on our servers at work and my project manager uses it on the desktop.
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Post by Jenk »

Voted Gentoo

Have used/tried:

RedHat
Fedora (successor to RedHat)
Mandrake
Slackware
Ubuntu
Debian
Gentoo.

Gentoo allows the most control out of those listed I find, thus as I am a control freak I prefer it :)

I disagree Ubuntu and Gentoo are alike, infact I'd go as far as saying they about about as opposite to each other as *nix distros can get. Ubuntu does just about everything for you (but still quite well,) where as Gentoo leaves it all to you. :)

Favorite DE at the moment is KDE, but as soon as I've got my soundcard sorted I'll be giving XGL a go.
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