water cooler :: Which Distro?

I use Knoppix Mib-11 in form of poor man's install cos is just what I wanted, invulnerable to viruses and keyloggers, loop-AES automated, encrypted swap, kgpg, etc.
the only downside of it is that Gaim is useless and I use MSN alot.
As live CD the expandable version of DSL is on a league of his own.
I have introduced many friends to DSL and everyone just loved it.
it makes everything else look obsolete.
I need just to figure out a cople more script to automate a few functions and DSL will become my desktop of choice too.
To everyone involved, BRAVO!

i like dsl on my slow p166, but need gcc, and everytime i went to install it under dsl, i fried something critical. I love slack, it is thin, but not too thin. but i do like flux, which dsl introduced me to.

I like Slackware on the main workhorse, dsl in my wallet and duct-taped under bike seat. dsl also now lives on the previous box which is now semi-retired at the family cottage. I would absolutely recommend dsl as a first distro, more so than the mandrake's and the lindow's of the world. It's just large enough to be really useful, small enough to not too overwhelm a newbie (and fit on a biz-card CD of course ;) ), and it installs in a snap after which it "just works". I'd have been saved months of frustration if it existed when I got into this...

Quote (Rapidweather @ Feb. 04 2004,04:40)

I tried Redhat 9, but it would not install. Probably due to my overclocking, but I'm not
sure, RHL9 won't say.
For a good workout, I do SuSE 2.2
I'll never go through installing Debian 2.2 again, I just copy a good working setup over
to a new box with DriveCopy.:D

I cooudln't get it to install either! Go DSL!

Masochist, schmasocist!
Windows NT 3.51 Workstation with Newshell 2 rules!

Don't laugh. I was actually contemplating installing this on an old 486 prior to my discovering DSL.

My first home computer was an Apple II+ (c. 1981). Had a lot of fun picking it apart, both hw- and sw-wise, just to learn what made it tick. Figured out how to copy "uncopyable" floppies by yanking RAM chips out of the live mobo -- Yikes!

I actually made a live CD of Windows 95 according to that German c't magazine article a few years ago. It was a PITA to make and was the slowest POS OS I'd ever run. DSL totally blows it away.

Right now, my main OS is Windows 2000 Pro. "Favorite" might be too strong a word to describe it, though. It happens to be the platform that runs all the apps I use on a daily basis and is reasonably stable & useable once it's customized with enough 3rd-party sw to replace Micro$oft's half-fast "solutions".

Tried RH, SuSE & Mandrake a few times. They shore do look purdy, but they just seem too big/slow/bloated for me to understand. Learning all those cryptic *nix console commands, I think, has been the primary barrier to my jumping into Linux altogether.

I think DSL is the best distro for Linux newbies -- running it's a breeze, it's useful right "out of the box", and it's small enough to learn at a hacker's level. I like the Fluxbox UI. Who says Linux has to look like Windows anyway?

If I can get to the point where I can do everything in Linux that I currently do in Windows, I'll be happy, and -- I'll probably make a permanent switchover.

Just my $0.02, FWIW

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