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A Fairly Accurate Linux Distro Chooser
- swirling_vortex
- Posts: 631
- Joined: 2007-02-16 20:30
- Location: Pennsylvania
I got:
openSuSE (way too slow)
Debian (the best)
Ubuntu (ehh, good for new users, but not for me)
Fedora (kernel updates kill my wifi and video card)
Mandriva (buggy and profit minded)
Kubuntu (same as Ubuntu)
Knoppix was also a possibility, but it said it was for more "experienced" users and does not have application library.
However, I've already made up my mind about what I'm running.
openSuSE (way too slow)
Debian (the best)
Ubuntu (ehh, good for new users, but not for me)
Fedora (kernel updates kill my wifi and video card)
Mandriva (buggy and profit minded)
Kubuntu (same as Ubuntu)
Knoppix was also a possibility, but it said it was for more "experienced" users and does not have application library.
However, I've already made up my mind about what I'm running.
- perlhacker14
- Posts: 464
- Joined: 2007-06-19 20:19
- Location: 127.0.0.1
Noone uses Knoppix for anything beyond testing or recovery (except one of the network admins in my school who thinks using Knoppix is using real Linux, and then people like me argue with him and tell him to try Ubuntu or Debian or even Fedora (occaisonaly)).987687 wrote:Does anyone actually run knoppix? All I use it for is recovery.
Arven bids you a good day...
My Laptop: Toshiba Satellite A25-S3072; 3.06 GHz Pentium 4; 473 MiB RAM; Debian Testing/Unstable/Experimental / Slackware 12; Whatever WM/DE I feel like at the moment
My Laptop: Toshiba Satellite A25-S3072; 3.06 GHz Pentium 4; 473 MiB RAM; Debian Testing/Unstable/Experimental / Slackware 12; Whatever WM/DE I feel like at the moment
What's funny about that test is that I actually am avoiding a graduation party today to work on computer stuff (Two websites and some Frets On Fire). How ironicperlhacker14 wrote:Dont they already have one at http://www.innergeek.us/geek-test.html?actionM wrote:We need a test to take to determine how smart you are with linux! Or maybe one of you should make one
Go on: try it out.
Jabber: pobega@gmail.com
Pronunciation: Poh - Bay - Guh
Pronunciation: Poh - Bay - Guh
/me cracks the web-devel whipPobega wrote:What's funny about that test is that I actually am avoiding a graduation party today to work on computer stuff (Two websites and some Frets On Fire). How ironicperlhacker14 wrote:Dont they already have one at http://www.innergeek.us/geek-test.html?actionM wrote:We need a test to take to determine how smart you are with linux! Or maybe one of you should make one
Go on: try it out.
- perlhacker14
- Posts: 464
- Joined: 2007-06-19 20:19
- Location: 127.0.0.1
Just thinking, after reading the results pertaining to how some distros have no application library, What is defined as an application library?
Arch has Pac-Man; Gentoo has Portage; both have a method of tracking packages and a library of them, yet are listed as having no application library. Any of you have any ideas?
Arch has Pac-Man; Gentoo has Portage; both have a method of tracking packages and a library of them, yet are listed as having no application library. Any of you have any ideas?
Arven bids you a good day...
My Laptop: Toshiba Satellite A25-S3072; 3.06 GHz Pentium 4; 473 MiB RAM; Debian Testing/Unstable/Experimental / Slackware 12; Whatever WM/DE I feel like at the moment
My Laptop: Toshiba Satellite A25-S3072; 3.06 GHz Pentium 4; 473 MiB RAM; Debian Testing/Unstable/Experimental / Slackware 12; Whatever WM/DE I feel like at the moment
It seems the distro chooser puts too much emphasis on the desktop environment; my
results sure go in that direction:
Open SuSe
Kubuntu
Mandriva
Debian
and the runnerups:
Fedora (anyone who knows Portuguese will understand why nobody wants
to use a distro named Fedora)
Ubuntu ( I don't care what anybody says: Fiesty 7.04 is a nice piece of work. It's
just not on the level of Debian 4.0 )
these two were marked as "not having desired desktop." hmm...
Knoppix: well, if you're talking about the Brazilian remaster Kurumin, hell yeah.
otherwise...
The test doesn't seem to take into account that after building the comp, I used the Debian
Etch netinstall ( ) to build the system.
I loved the geek test. Interesting questions, but the options- you have "dated a geek,
married a geek, etc." Where's the option "beat up a geek once?" LOL, seriously, I'm a shadetree
mechanic from South Texas, but the questions are set up that I qualify as a Total Geek
( Linux was tailor-made for people like me, and other do-it-yourselfers who like to tear
things apart to see how they work ) All in all, fun test.
results sure go in that direction:
Open SuSe
Kubuntu
Mandriva
Debian
and the runnerups:
Fedora (anyone who knows Portuguese will understand why nobody wants
to use a distro named Fedora)
Ubuntu ( I don't care what anybody says: Fiesty 7.04 is a nice piece of work. It's
just not on the level of Debian 4.0 )
these two were marked as "not having desired desktop." hmm...
Knoppix: well, if you're talking about the Brazilian remaster Kurumin, hell yeah.
otherwise...
The test doesn't seem to take into account that after building the comp, I used the Debian
Etch netinstall ( ) to build the system.
I loved the geek test. Interesting questions, but the options- you have "dated a geek,
married a geek, etc." Where's the option "beat up a geek once?" LOL, seriously, I'm a shadetree
mechanic from South Texas, but the questions are set up that I qualify as a Total Geek
( Linux was tailor-made for people like me, and other do-it-yourselfers who like to tear
things apart to see how they work ) All in all, fun test.
- swirling_vortex
- Posts: 631
- Joined: 2007-02-16 20:30
- Location: Pennsylvania
I tried to install a knoppix 5.1.1 DVD to a hard disk. They've certainly fixed the installer, but upon trying to update packages, I got major dependency issues (mainly because Knoppix has its own custom tools). Therefore, Knoppix is mainly used for recovery and should be the one distro everyone has.
Sorry, then, for the delay in replying. The problem with translators is that they stillNow I'm interested to know what it means.. Using Babelfish translator it says Fedora in Portuguese is "Fedora" in English.
don't deal well with permutations (good for me, since I'm a language professor).
Feder, Fedor= stink, smell bad.
So "Fedora" suggests the feminine form (in romance languages, an -a suffix is feminine)
of "Fedor."* Many Brazilians call the distro "Fedorento" as a result. Yes, that's right,
the distro is called stinky
*PS using the feminine form is appropriate, since distro/distribution is feminine in
Portuguese.
- swirling_vortex
- Posts: 631
- Joined: 2007-02-16 20:30
- Location: Pennsylvania
Arch - Debian - Kubuntu
BTW. try this one:
http://polishlinux.org/choose/quiz/
I think it is the best distro chooser atm
My results:
1. Debian GNU/Linux
2. Gentoo Linux
3. PLD Linux
4. Slackware Linux
5. Ubuntu Linux
BTW. try this one:
http://polishlinux.org/choose/quiz/
I think it is the best distro chooser atm
My results:
1. Debian GNU/Linux
2. Gentoo Linux
3. PLD Linux
4. Slackware Linux
5. Ubuntu Linux
Last edited by matino on 2007-06-24 19:16, edited 1 time in total.
For me:matino wrote:Arch - Debian - Kubuntu
BTW. try this one:
http://polishlinux.org/choose/quiz/
I think it is the best distro chooser atm
1. Gentoo Linux
2. Debian GNU/Linux
3. PLD Linux
4. FreeBSD
5. Slackware Linux
- Jackiebrown
- Posts: 1246
- Joined: 2007-01-02 04:46
- Location: San Antonio, TX