[TAG] Distro survey

[Benjamin A. Okopnik]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2005 at 11:44:03AM -0800, Mike Orr wrote:
> I'd like to do a little survey of which Linux and BSD distributions
> TAG members use.  If you would, please list the distros and rank them:
> 1 -- I am using it currently.
> 2 -- I have used it in the past.  (Specify the latest year.)
> 3 -- I have not personally used it but I know it well enough to answer
> distribution-specific questions.
> "Using" means using it for your own tasks, as opposed to fixing
> somebody else's computer or evaluating the distro for a short time.
> 
> My answers are:
> Fedora  -  1
> Gentoo  -  1
> Debian  -  2  (2004)
> Slackware  -  2  (1997)

Yeesh, there's no way to remember all the ones I've tried. A multitude.
Just in setting up my recently-purchased HP, I tried about six different
distros; one interesting distro, in particular (I don't recall the name
of it at the moment) was a sort of a GUI rescue disk with a Wind0ws 2.11
look. The coolest thing about it was that it a) booted on this machine
and b) allowed you to resize NTFS partitions - since I'd never installed
Linux on an AMD64-based machine, I figured I'd hold on to Wind0ws until
I had _something_ running... Worked great, allowed me to get started on
installing Gentoo - until the hardware died. :( Oh well. It's back now,
but I haven't even had a chance to test it yet.

So, distros - just off the top of my head:

Debian - 1
Puppy - 1
Gentoo - 1

Ubuntu  - 2 (2005)
Knoppix - 2 (2005)
Morphix - 2 (2005)
DSL     - 2 (2005)
Fedora  - 2 (2005)
LNX-BBC - 2 (2005)
Tom's RootBoot - 2 (2003)
SuSE    - 2 (2003)
Coyote  - 2 (200[23]?)

NetBSD - 2 (2004)


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