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Thursday, October 12, 2006

Distro surfing

Posted by code pirate on 11:11 AM No comments
Yeah i know what you are thinking. Was this dude stoned when he wrote this caption. Yeah i indulge in distro surfing from time to time. The thing is linux spoils you silly with so many options that it baffles many noobys. Ok so i have installed / tried lots and lots of distros. So many of them that i have forgot even there names. The thing is Distros can be categorised into main stream (Server and desktop) and private projects. Most of the smaller distros started as private projects and when people started to show support they grew into community projects.

Also, all of these distros take a well established main stream distro and does some value addition to it. Take the case of Elive, a live CD distro based upon debian and enlightenment as the Window manager which is a tough task itself, if u want to achieve that yourself. Let me make an inventory of all the distros i have tried till date:
  • Monkey linux
  • Corel linux
  • Debian (woody)
  • Redhat 7,8,9
  • Fedora 2,3,4,5
  • CentoOS 3, 4
  • FreeBSD
  • Elive
  • PCQ linux
  • Zenwalk
  • Slackware 9, 10
  • Ubuntu 5, 6
  • kubuntu 5
  • Xubuntu
  • Knoppix
  • Madriva
  • Damn Small Linux
  • Slax
  • Linspire
  • Vector linux
Phew that was a long list. Of all these distros i have tried, i have some personal favorites. First is debian; its rock solid though hardware detection is a problem with my computer but i manage to make it work somehow. Redhat or Fedora is ok but its quite bloated. After doing a full install it doesnt leave you much space to play around. Vector was blazing fast on my old computer, the only problem was Xfce used to crash quite reqularly, even KDE crashed quite often.

Currently i am using Xubuntu and it is working fine apart from a few small glitches. I am in love with the synaptic package management tool available on debian based distros. It put even yum to shame.

Earlier i used to configure the LAMPP setup by hand on each distro i used. But lately i wondered why go through all the pain, nowadays i just download xampp for linux and there you go. No time wasted in installing and configuring all the extensions and such.

A few days ago i stumbled upon Kororaa. It has more eye candy than vista folks. And come to think of it; its not hard on your hardware, lol. I always thought successive versions of OS should be more stable, less hungry for resources and more secure than the previous ones. Sadly this is not the case with Vista. Now lets not get into MS bashing here.

That just about does it for today. As usual comments are more than welcome.

Sandy

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