Favorite Linux OS? Put in your 2 cents.

Forsaken_GA

e24ohm wrote: »

Just curious, but why do you hate Fedora so much?

I don't like how much it differs from RHEL/CentOS, and I don't like the crap (or the amount of it) that it comes pre-packaged with. Running Fedora feels like running Windows to me, so yeah, not a fan.

Ubuntu is getting pretty bad about the bloatware as well, but I'm more annoyed at them over the pulseaudio issues out of the box in the last few releases, they haven't tripped my 'I'm annoyed at having to deal with you' threshold yet. If they do, then I'll just go back to installing my work stations as barebones Debian systems and then just apt in what I want and be done with it.

Lately though, I've been finding that Debian has made me lazy, it's just too easy. I'm thinking about going back to FreeBSD

zerglings

Just butting in... I am not really a Linux user but I've always liked Fedora Core and SUSE but every time I use Linux, I've always had problems. Problems like can't do dual display and/or audio not working. *sighs*

I use Ubuntu Linux Server 9.04 right now on my VMware running on top of my Server 2K3 for proxy, ssh, and WoL (Wake on LAN) purposes. Other than that, I don't do anything with it. Any ideas on what else I can use this VMware Linux box? I wanted to run OpenVPN on it but every time I search for a guide on how to configure it properly, I always have problems with it. The last time I installed it and configured, I had to use several guides and combined them to make it work. Though, not really sure if it actually works because when I finished it I wasn't able to find a VPN that supports SSL. I uninstalled it from my box and after few weeks that was when I was able to find a VPN client that supports SSL. Sucks big time! Oh well.

rogue2shadow

Desktop OS: Ubuntu
Security: Backtrack4

MentholMoose

zerglings wrote: »

Just butting in... I am not really a Linux user but I've always liked Fedora Core and SUSE but every time I use Linux, I've always had problems. Problems like can't do dual display and/or audio not working. *sighs*

I use Ubuntu Linux Server 9.04 right now on my VMware running on top of my Server 2K3 for proxy, ssh, and WoL (Wake on LAN) purposes. Other than that, I don't do anything with it. Any ideas on what else I can use this VMware Linux box? I wanted to run OpenVPN on it but every time I search for a guide on how to configure it properly, I always have problems with it. The last time I installed it and configured, I had to use several guides and combined them to make it work. Though, not really sure if it actually works because when I finished it I wasn't able to find a VPN that supports SSL. I uninstalled it from my box and after few weeks that was when I was able to find a VPN client that supports SSL. Sucks big time! Oh well.

You can try OpenVPN Access Server, it's way easier to use than the regular OpenVPN. You can get a 2-user license free, after that it's $5/user (minimum of a 10-user license required).

dynamik

MentholMoose wrote: »

You can try OpenVPN Access Server, it's way easier to use than the regular OpenVPN. You can get a 2-user license free, after that it's $5/user (minimum of a 10-user license required).

pfSense is another way to get OpenVPN up and running "easily."

Paul Boz

I've been using CentOS 5 a lot lately. I'm trying to get better at Linux (its an important skill after all) and CentOS seems very well put together. It doesn't have any bloat and it hasn't made me want to shoot myself yet so that's a plus.

stuh84

Paul Boz wrote: »

I've been using CentOS 5 a lot lately. I'm trying to get better at Linux (its an important skill after all) and CentOS seems very well put together. It doesn't have any bloat and it hasn't made me want to shoot myself yet so that's a plus.

I've always thought the CentOS/Red Hat/Fedora tracks were always put together better than the Debian ones, at minimum better than the Ubuntu ones, Ubuntu has some really strange ideas for where files should reside at times...

However, in reply to the topic, anything *nix based I'm good with (unless SCO are involved, at which point I would like to break the box it is on, and shoot every member of SCO)

L0gicB0mb508

Paul Boz wrote: »

I've been using CentOS 5 a lot lately. I'm trying to get better at Linux (its an important skill after all) and CentOS seems very well put together. It doesn't have any bloat and it hasn't made me want to shoot myself yet so that's a plus.

Cent is pretty pimp. I used it to build a lot of security geared servers (or appliances if you want to call them that) back in the day. It's also my weapon of choice for just about any Linux related task besides desktop. I also like SuSe quite a bit too.

I've been using the netbook edition of Ubuntu lately. The newest release is the first one to actually work right on my netbook. I'm pretty impressed with it over all.

zerglings

MentholMoose wrote: »

You can try OpenVPN Access Server, it's way easier to use than the regular OpenVPN. You can get a 2-user license free, after that it's $5/user (minimum of a 10-user license required).

I want the free stuff and more than two users.

dynamik wrote: »

pfSense is another way to get OpenVPN up and running "easily."

I've heard of pfSense before. I guess I should try it out when I get a chance.

skyline

In my limited exposure to Linux I have only used Fedora.

So I guess Fedora is my fav?