Which is your preferred distro?
I have used ubuntu (which I loved until the Unity Design came out which was terrible IMO). I now use backtrack to learn pentesting but was wondering what you guys are all using?
Ubuntu mint and openSUSE (Novell) are also really nice distros.
What do you guys use? Is it a job specific distro that you use?
Ubuntu mint and openSUSE (Novell) are also really nice distros.
What do you guys use? Is it a job specific distro that you use?
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beauty of the baud.
Fedora16 is ok too so far.
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Same here except I use both mint and Ubuntu for desktop and CentOS for servers.
Ubuntu is by far the easiest if you are new to the *nix world.
SUSE too.
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started my adventure with linux with mandrake, tried many other distros, but my favourite one for years now is debian and as guy above me not really a fan of ubuntu
Perhaps in the US, but SUSE has a big presence in Europe.
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I really like Mint's interface, but the distro is such a resource hog I'd almost have to have a brand new laptop to run it.
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Redhat as the commercial packages I'm using only support it (xilinx )
though it can be made to run on most distros.
I find fedora easier for development as it has the more recent packages.
But have no problems using fedora, redhat/centos, debian or ubuntu or the arm linux versions including openembedded angstrom. Started with slackware 2.
Regardless of your favourite you should be able to use most distros, it just takes a bit of practise.
The freebsd ports collection is nice (what the mac ports collections were based off).
Try Linux Mint 12 Lisa its a good platform , light years ahead of latest Ubuntu offering.