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Linux - what flavour do you favour?

Paul Waring's picture

At the risk of being castigated for being insufficiently 'Rock', I thought I'd check out the Massive's geekier proclivities and ask what, if any, version of Linux blows up our collective frock?

Is SuSe the one you use?
Or is Ubuntu the one you run to?
Is Mint, "mint"?
Do you tip your hat to Fedora?
On the other hand, do you find Debian to be plebian?

I'm fannying around with a cheap netbook (HP 2133) and looking for no more than access to the internet, email and possibly a touch of OpenOffice and the off film on VLC. Oh, and Spotify via WINE would be nice as well.

I've played around with Ubuntu for a while and it's fine, but am happier to brave something a bit more esoteric if the pain is worth the gain.

Come on! Embrace your inner nerd and share!

Oh, and most importantly - Lienux or Linnux?

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Ubuntu for me

It pretty much "just works" which is a change from the old days when you needed to be able to patch some hex codes to get access.

Pronunciation from Mr Torvalds : http://www.paul.sladen.org/pronunciation/

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el hombre malo | 3 December 2009 - 6:16pm

What's...

Linux when it's at home?

Edit: ah, I see. Difficult computer thingy.

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Patrick Crowther | 3 December 2009 - 6:50pm

When I'm on holiday

Eee PC running Xandros Desktop. It covers the basics.

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Fraser Lewry | 3 December 2009 - 7:08pm

Xandros...

...don't you have to pay for that one, Fraser?

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Paul Waring | 4 December 2009 - 11:04am

It came

pre-installed.

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Fraser Lewry | 4 December 2009 - 11:08am

Ubuntu on my laptop

I've got Mint on a virtual machine and it looks quite nice too.

I use eeBuntu on my netbook.

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GunsOfBrixton | 3 December 2009 - 7:24pm

EEE PC 901 with Ubuntu Netbook Remix

Fraser, you should try this. It's miles better than Xandros, and dead easy to install.

Let's not forget that OS/X is basically UNIX too.

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Mavis Diles | 3 December 2009 - 7:52pm

One at a time, please...

I'm already downloading eeBuntu.

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Fraser Lewry | 3 December 2009 - 7:54pm

Fuck me I'm confused....

sorry, I just finished listening to the podcast and the *shocking* language has stuck. I think I need to go on a computer course.

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Patrick Crowther | 3 December 2009 - 7:55pm

I attend Linux user groups

I recommend it. You can learn a lot there from people who seriously know their stuff.

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Mavis Diles | 3 December 2009 - 8:16pm
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