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What is your primary/favorite distro?

Slackware
4
9%
Debian
2
4%
Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu
19
40%
Fedora
4
9%
SUSE
2
4%
Gentoo
4
9%
Mandriva
3
6%
Something Else (post distro?)
9
19%
 
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Post by Jza » Thu Nov 30, 2006 11:20 am

i think the best distro out there is mandiva, is far more friendly than ubuntu, suse, and need less configuration, possibly because of its maturity.
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Post by sweetnsourbkr » Fri Dec 01, 2006 5:06 pm

A very happy and satisfied Zenwalk 4 user here. :)
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Post by schotty » Fri Dec 01, 2006 6:16 pm

I chose Fedora since that is my primary os. Although, I do use OpenBSD, FC is my primary on all machines (sans the Macbook).
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Post by adam » Sat Dec 02, 2006 3:47 am

Using Arch here.
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Post by ubergeekinc » Sat Dec 23, 2006 2:48 pm

Debian on the servers - Ubuntu on the laptop(s).
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Post by KStorm » Sat Dec 23, 2006 9:40 pm

Right now I'm running MCNLive, based on Mandriva. Very impressive.
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Post by allix » Sun Dec 24, 2006 7:09 am

Tsuroerusu wrote: I am not aware of any sort of jail stuff for Linux, however it's a quite compelling feature of FreeBSD. You could do a "chroot jail" under Linux, but an attacker can brake out of that, and that is not virtualization.
FreeVPS, Linux-VServer and OpenVZ are patches to the kernel to add features similar to jails.
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Post by Tsuroerusu » Sun Dec 24, 2006 7:24 am

allix wrote:
Tsuroerusu wrote: I am not aware of any sort of jail stuff for Linux, however it's a quite compelling feature of FreeBSD. You could do a "chroot jail" under Linux, but an attacker can brake out of that, and that is not virtualization.
FreeVPS, Linux-VServer and OpenVZ are patches to the kernel to add features similar to jails.
Hmmm, yeah that might be something to take a look at, but it's not in the mainline kernel, which results in less testing and no integration into the distros.
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Post by allix » Sun Dec 24, 2006 10:09 am

Tsuroerusu wrote: Hmmm, yeah that might be something to take a look at, but it's not in the mainline kernel, which results in less testing and no integration into the distros.
Just because its not in the mainline or vanilla stock kernel does not mean its awfull, Selinux, AppArmor,grsecurity are not in the mainline kernel and are used by some distro notably gentoo and fedora.
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