What Your Choice of Linux Distro Says about You 494
iter8 writes "NewsForge has an article explaining what your choice of distro says about you. There's no comment on what using Windows or OS X does for your rep. I use Mandrake, so that makes me suave and sophisticated."
Slackware? (Score:5, Interesting)
It works...? (Score:5, Interesting)
No need for that (Score:5, Interesting)
What a cincidence and a true story.
One of the broad minded Windows admins in [insert major logistics company] yelled at me "Linux for President" when I passed his office before yesterday.
It turns out that one of his laptops was fuxored and no matter what he wasn't able to boot it under Windows.
Since he is broadminded and a good admin (even though he's an MCSE) he has his tools ready and one of it is Knoppix.
The laptop booted like a charm, made the partition visible, the files where saved to another laptop and Linux oughta be president.
There was really no need to push Knoppix on him.
hear hear! (Score:2, Interesting)
The moment i find one that recognizes my onboard sound i'll take it, no matter which name it's got. Untill then i'm stuck on windoze for everything that involves sound (and i do like music).
Re:Slackware? (Score:3, Interesting)
Re:missing option (Score:1, Interesting)
Linux From Scratch. the real man's linux.
Re:The article is a troll (Score:2, Interesting)
Repeat after me: Trolls can be funny!
Sure, it pokes fun at distros, but it's mostly fair, and it's not hateful. Enjoy it. (I run Gentoo, I agree--if it moves, compile it)
Fun and lighthearted (Score:4, Interesting)
I wonder though what about people who use multiple different distributions? For example
I suppose technically speaking Xandros and Libranet are Debian based - but so is Linspire - Where does this leave me?
Im in a twisted state of being neither here nor there help me
Nick
Re:debian zealotry *yawn* (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Bar pickups got a lot more complex (Score:4, Interesting)
The actual chart includes all 13 signs and accounts for the slight wobble that causes the chart to shift by about 1 day every 87 years.
Look up 13th sign on google for more information.
Re:No need for that (Score:1, Interesting)
Re:Not a pity... (Score:2, Interesting)
if you wana be different from he "league [of] drooling Linux masses" you would build linux from scratch.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
afterall the best distribution is your own.
Re:Slackware? (Score:3, Interesting)
Maybe it's a bit too
Every time I read a list like this, Slackware is marked as the oldest, hardest, and favorite among real administrators, hackers, and geeks who know what they're doing. No sissy graphic installer. No warm fuzzy configuration tools. You want to configure something, you just do it and know it's done right, rather than pointing and clicking, and wondering if what you just pointed & clicked did what you thought it would do.
Slackware comes with most everything, and what it doesn't have isn't a problem. Slackware users know how to compile their own stuff, beyond trying to 'emerge', 'apt-get', or whatever to let some warm-fuzzy installer script attempt it.
I use Slackware on just about everything, and those that know me know that's a *LOT* of machines. The only real exception are my AMD64 machines, that I'm still waiting for Slack to have a 64bit version. I know it'll be coming soon enough, I just can't wait. Until then, they're Gentoo. No offense to the Gentoo guys, but I feel warmer and fuzzier knowing I can get my OS installed in minutes. We have a hacked-up version of Slackware that we install on our servers that is done in 5 minutes. That's pretty hard to beat.
Re:Slackware? (Score:2, Interesting)
My machine is a P4 2.4GHz with 1Gb of RAM. If apache and mysql are running unnecessarily, does that really slow things down? No. They are blocked on a select() call waiting for a request to spring them into action. Unless you are short on RAM, it has no impact at all.
Note that before I bought this computer I was using a P-Pro 200 with 128 Mb of RAM. The only reason I upgraded was because the current desktops (KDE and Gnome) take up so many resources it just makes everything sluggish. I could have used fvwm2 (or other things) to make things very snappy, but it really isn't worth my time. I like to spend my time using my computer, not configuring/tweaking it.
But to compare every non-Slackware distro to Microsoft is just silly.
BOOYEAH (Score:3, Interesting)
I never thought I'd live to see the day that using linux makes a person a "conformist". I suppose that makes linux mainstream.
Re:What your distro choice REALLY says about you (Score:3, Interesting)
or at least this list is less biased than the one in the article