Which is the best distro of Linux?

[walker]

This version is only available for a handfull of persons... be patient... the first (public) beta will come....

[andreyu]

This version is only available for a handfull of persons... be patient... the first (public) beta will come....

I listen it again and again

[walker]

you won't be disapointed (as nobody will be; I guess)..... belive me.....

[Randy Walker]

These posts have been sitting back for a few years. Much progress in the Linux realm since the last post and I'm a little curious so I thought I would ask for an update. I've had some exposure to RedHat and CentOS, operating in run level 3 so I don't really know anything about the GUIs. I have observed Centos now offers both Gnome and KDE so I expect there has been progess in other branches of Linux. I have also observed when I go Googling on linux issues, most of the posts seem to come from Ubuntu users. Am I reading that right?... Is that the lead preference these days?

Prodominantly a Windows user and I've had no experience with any Linux installation other than CentOS but I have to say, being my first encounter with both the installation and the GUI in CentOS, I was very impressed. I have yet to actually explore the GUI. Just no time/imperatives for it so far.

[Mistrel]

Please don't resurrect ancient threads like this.

[Kale]

Please don't resurrect ancient threads like this.

Why not? It's still relevant.

I would go with Ubuntu. It is top at the minute for features and ease of use. Plus there are different versions which support different window managers, such as gnome, kde, etc.

[blueznl]

I cannot advocate this enough: get VirtualBox or VMware (player) or something similar, and fool around, it will make it a breeze to install and compare different OS'es and Linux flavours...

[the.weavster]

Linux Mint, it's an Ubuntu derivative but it comes with all the video and music codecs installed. It also has a really nice custom system updating utility.

I cannot advocate this enough: get VirtualBox or VMware (player) or something similar, and fool around, it will make it a breeze to install and compare different OS'es and Linux flavours...

Or even easier you can use this utility to make a bootable USB pen drive from any Linux live cd iso file: https://fedorahosted.org/liveusb-creator/

The only issue I had with this was the wireless on my laptop didn't work with Mint whilst I was using it from the pen drive (it did once I'd installed it to my hard drive though).

[jamba]

There are so many distros out there, it's purely a matter of what you think is important, and how you use a computer.

I love Arch, it is everything to me that an OS should be.
Ubuntu is good, and keeps things simple.
Mint is good, takes Ubuntu a step further with some more drivers and stuff.
Fedora is good, red hat is good.

There are a TON of good and great distros. I've tried most of the ones listed in the top 50 here: http://distrowatch.com/
Like someone else said, install VirtualBox or something and test them out. Or do like I did and just wipe your drive once a month with a new distro and try it out until you find one that works for you.

I do NOT recommend Hannah Montanna Linux. haha!

after I typed all that I realized.
1. this whole thread was brought back from the dead
2. even the last post was a few months ago. :-/

doh!

[stmdbe2019]

Complex question. It depends on the user/company/yourself, teams/structure of future plane + how best of the best you want, more software or less software collections etc, lot of things related, like the way same question can be """which dish to eat, would be the best"""?. I prefer linux f12/centos and unix solaris.

1. If you are on desktop user there are lot of them:
a. Fedora 12
b. Backtrack 4
c. Debian

2. If you are on server environment, there are lot of them:
a. Aix
b. Solaris
c. FreeBSD
d. CentOs/Red hat

Read this please to respect the changes: http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/0 ... -unix.html