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View Poll Results: Which linux distros have you tried so far ?
Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu, ... 124 99.20%
Suse, Novel 62 49.60%
Fedora, Red Hat 70 56.00%
Debian 59 47.20%
Mandriva, Mandrake 49 39.20%
Slackware 30 24.00%
Knoppix 56 44.80%
Gentoo 39 31.20%
PC Linux OS 22 17.60%
Others (Specify in the thread) 38 30.40%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 125. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 05-16-2007   #1 (permalink)
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Default Which linux distros have you tried so far ?

You can't have more than 10 options on those polls.
If the distro is not in the list, choose 'Others' and specify in the thread.
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From 2000 to 2003 i've used Debian, Red Hat & Suse alongside Win2k
Fron 2003 to 2006 i've used Gentoo exclusively
At the end of 2006 i've switched to Ubuntu because i was annoyed at the time it took my system to do a simple emerge sync (=apt-get update)
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gNewSense and UtutuoXS.

And also ReactOS.
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I have used every distro of Ubuntu since Dapper and have used openSUSE
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Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, PC Linux OS & Solaris (but that's not Linux )
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My attempt to leave windows goes back to Mandrake before it became Mandriva and includes Xandros as well as .

IMHO, uneducated as it is, with the exception of Ubuntu, the other distros are too bloated and convoluted and not for the beginner to learn on especially if you are teaching yourself (as I am now) and your only resources are forums and any books you can find.
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i've tried a bunch of them, including black panther linux (didn't get too far with that one. my hungarian is non-existent). the worst are the attempts at live versions of the bsds.
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Old 05-16-2007   #8 (permalink)
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A whole bunch. When I was first introduced to Linux, I played with SLS for a bit (yep, I've used Linux before Linux was cool), then used a very early version of Slackware. After that, I used Red Hat and its variants for a while, then switched to Debian, which I used until I switched to Ubuntu, which I use today.

In work environments, I've been exposed to RHEL and SLES distros, as well as Mandrake and SUSE Desktop Linux.

You might say I've been around the block a few times.
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i've tried all of them except slackware and gentoo. i've also tried storm linux and caldara linux.
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I started with Red Hat (5, I think) and later on Fedora, tried SuSe and Mandrake but stayed at Red Hat. Later on I used Gentoo for a while and tried out Slackware which was too much for me. I tried Ubuntu (think 5.04 or so) and Debian. In the amount of time, Ubuntu certainly takes the biggest part.
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I've tried everything on the list except Slackware and PCLinuxOS.

I've also tried Arch, Mepis, BLAG, Freespire, Yoper, PC-BSD, FreeBSD and OpenBSD (I know, BSD |= Linux), as well as a few small distros that I can't recall the names of.
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All of them plus a few but the only one that stands out is yoper.
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Default Re: Which linux distros have you tried so far ?

started out with suse 9.3. i was on that for about six months before i switched to dapper. synaptic was a great improvement over yast.

i have tried xubuntu on my older desktop but i don't like their xfce that much. i want to try zenwalk soon if i ever get un-lazy.

burned cds but haven't tried yet:
kateos
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zenwalk

tried but didn't install or use live cd on regular basis
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Default Re: Which linux distros have you tried so far ?

Ubuntu/Kubuntu (All since 5.10)
Net Ubuntu 6.06
Debian GNU/Linux (3.1 and 4.0)
Fedora Core 5
FreeBSD
DesktopBSD
Damn Small Linux (3.1 I think)

These ones didn't work with my setup:
openSUSE (An older version when it was just SUSE, didn't work)
Mandriva (Wouldn't boot)
PCLinuxOS (Wouldn't boot)

I'm sure I've tried a few others.
I'll try Gentoo and others once I get a PSU for my old box.
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I tried so far only Ubuntu, DreamLinux, Sam Linux, and Mandriva. The others on the list and more are coming on a DVD shipment

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Ubuntu

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Default Re: Which linux distros have you tried so far ?

mandrake before it was mandriva
debian
Fedora/Redha
Suse/openSuse
Ubuntu
Arch
Knoppix, knoppmyth, lots of other livecd's

Oh and I tried Gentoo once
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Default Re: Which linux distros have you tried so far ?

All the distros in the list, plus:
Sabayon, Austrumi, Damn Small Linux, Puppy, Knoppel, aLinux, Foresight, Sam, FreeBSD... maybe and some others, but I don't remember now.
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I bought Mandrake 3.(SOMETHING) at wal-mart WAY back in the day. Then I messed around with Redhat, Slackware, and Gentoo while learning linux but didn't become a strict user until Fedora. Started using ubuntu at warty.
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I tried out Knoppix, and ended up using Ubuntu. Haven't tried anything else so far, but getting really interested to dive deeper into Linux world.
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