What distribution do you prefer to run on a laptop or a PC as your operating system?

I have tried to do away with windows completely, but there are programs that i cant do without or havent found an equivlent like quicken or adobe etc...

With no doubt, RedHat :)

I use suse on my powerbook and I love it. Redhat also worked well when I had a peecee laptop.

-Dan

I personally prefer Slackware, but there's absolutely no reason why you can't run a few distributions if you have a modern system (it takes very little knowledge, and you can use them all at once and see what one you like better).

Or even better, get yourself a copy of VMware, and run em side by side :stickout

-Dan

:puke:Redhat & Suse:smash:

:love:*BSD

Save your holy war for another forum. Try giving useful advice instead.

-Dan

I prefer Slackware myself, as it doesn't try to do everything for me, and it's not bloated with tons of stuff that I don't need.

I have a Dell Pentium 166 notebook that I use to test the install programs of the various Linux distributions. So far I have tried Red Hat Linux 7.1 and 7.2, Suse Linux (8.something, the latest from their website), and the latest Mandrake from their website.

Only the Mandrake distribution was able to recognize and install the correct drivers for my Intel network/modem PCMCIA card.

In playing around with the three Linux distros I mentioned, I'd rank them in the order (best to worst):

Mandrake
SuSe
Red Hat

While Red Hat is quite popular, it is (IMO) not necessarily the best. Indeed, I was rather unimpressed by Red Hat.


Also, here is rather interesting Linux distro: Lycoris (http://www.lycoris.com/)

I installed Lycoris on a machine yesterday - it's not too bad actually..hmm, I may put it on my main computer instead of RedHat..

I have a Dell inpiron 900 Mhz laptop...i tried running redhat but xwindows wouldnt load and i tried everything. Mandrake worked will, had a little trouble getting star office to get moving but i got it. The only thing with mandrake is that i couldnt get it to network really well, it wouldnt accept the gateway even though the gateway was setup right...

i never tried suse...maybe i will try that.

Has anyone configured any windows emulators to run programs like adobe and other good products that are made by third parties?

I got Mandrake here on my desktop, and never experienced any networking errors, except when I installed vmware. What kind of network errors you are experiencing?

Mandrake is most likely the easiest to use/configure. Get your mp3's to play on slack :)

The network errors were within the control center configuring the connection itself, inputted the IP address, subnet mask and gateway, accept when it tried to connect to the gateway it said it couldnt and for me to check my settings. I know the gateway existed because i have other computers using the same things...

I prefer RedHat but have worked with Mandrake, SuSE, Slackware, Caldera, and Debian. I would rank them as follows:
1. Redhat
2. Mandrake (very similar to redhat)
3. SuSE
4. Caldera
5. Slackware
6. Debian

good luck;)

Originally posted by Orpheus1539
Mandrake is most likely the easiest to use/configure. Get your mp3's to play on slack :)

Everything works for me in Slackware. :) I play MP3s, watch TV, play Quake 3, burn CDs, watch DVDs, download pics from my digital camera, and many other things just fine. :)

Originally posted by jahsh
I prefer RedHat but have worked with Mandrake, SuSE, Slackware, Caldera, and Debian. I would rank them as follows:
1. Redhat
2. Mandrake (very similar to redhat)
3. SuSE
4. Caldera
5. Slackware
6. Debian

good luck;)

No, no, no... You've got it all wrong. :-)

1. Slackware.
2. Debian.
3. SuSe.
4. Redhat.
5. Mandrake.
6. Caldera.
7. Anything like Redhat.
8. Other dists.

Heh. Seriously though, that's how i'd put it, for a web server aspect anyway. And for home use, I'd put it close to that too, although I'd probably put them in the order of Slackware, Debian, Redhat and/or Mandrake, and then down the list. I wonder what the last few versions of Slackware you ran to make you put it so far down the list? Obviously it's a personal choice, but I'm curious of the pros and cons to you that resulted in the order you put?