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Posted: 7/16/2015 11:10:23 PM EDT
I used to run Red Hat a long time ago. I have a partition already set up on my laptop that I will no longer be using. What is the go to flavor to try these days?
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:11:23 PM EDT
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Ubuntu or some variant, probably. I use opensuse.

«tc2k11»
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:11:59 PM EDT
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I USE THE INTERNETS


ps -aux | grep - i wat
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:13:09 PM EDT
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I use Mint Mate
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:13:24 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:13:55 PM EDT
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Zorin on my Lenovo desktop. A lot like Windows without the Bullshit.
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:14:50 PM EDT
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I haven't had a working Windows box at home in almost a decade.  I've tried just about all the major distros.  For a beginner can't really beat Linux Mint.
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:15:52 PM EDT
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Make a few live CDs/DVDs/thumb drives.  Most distributions have a live version.  Try them out before you install.
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:16:47 PM EDT
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I forgot all about that option. Thanks man
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:16:47 PM EDT
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We use it at work.



I hate it.
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:16:48 PM EDT
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www.distrowatch.com
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:17:47 PM EDT
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Ubuntu is pretty cool.
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:19:30 PM EDT
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Fedora here

m'distro
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:19:34 PM EDT
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It is but wish I knew how to disable task bar on the left side of the screen.
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:19:50 PM EDT
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I like Ubuntu or Mint.
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:19:51 PM EDT
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I forgot all about that option. Thanks man


No problem.   Most will install from the live distro so when you find one you like you can use that ISO.
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:20:26 PM EDT
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It is but wish I knew how to disable task bar on the left side of the screen.


It's called Mint.
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:21:36 PM EDT
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It's kinda like a Mac but not as polished or as useful to the average user.
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:21:57 PM EDT
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It's called Mint.
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It's called Mint.

The latest incarnation of Mint hasn't impressed me. Even tried the different variants.
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:22:14 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:22:43 PM EDT
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I use centos for servers. It's free red hat. Ubuntu is extremely popular.
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:22:52 PM EDT
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It's kinda like a Mac but not as polished or as useful to the average user.
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We use it at work.

I hate it.

It's kinda like a Mac but not as polished or as useful to the average user.

OSX was built on Linux and *BSD Unix.
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:23:46 PM EDT
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We use it at work.





I hate it.



It's kinda like a Mac but not as polished or as useful to the average user.



It's a pain in the dick. We have all of these web conferences and presentations that we are supposed to attend/watch/participate in...but the conference service doesn't work with Linux because our computers are so locked down that you can't do shit.



You can't attend these online pep rallies (and then you get bitched at by the higher ups for not attending) and you can't do screen sharing for cross training or working with tech support. Half my disk space is screen shots.





 
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:24:13 PM EDT
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Fedora.
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:24:35 PM EDT
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Still using FC14 here     Its on its second laptop now,  first one died about 4mos ago,  slipped the drive into this laptop, and fired right up.  
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:25:11 PM EDT
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Mint Cinnamon at home , RHEL at work.  
I'm getting to be OS agnostic.  I have a MacBook Pro for home use.  An HP laptop with Windows 7 for work.  It's getting to be that it doesn't matter to me what the OS is (thought I install Cygwin on Windows so I'm never far from BASH)
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:25:33 PM EDT
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It's a pain in the dick. We have all of these web conferences and presentations that we are supposed to attend/watch/participate in...but the conference service doesn't work with Linux because our computers are so locked down that you can't do shit.
 
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We use it at work.

I hate it.

It's kinda like a Mac but not as polished or as useful to the average user.

It's a pain in the dick. We have all of these web conferences and presentations that we are supposed to attend/watch/participate in...but the conference service doesn't work with Linux because our computers are so locked down that you can't do shit.
 


That's not unique to Linux.  I have seen Windows PC's that I can't use because they are locked down and their software is out of date.
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:25:42 PM EDT
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OSX was built on Linux and *BSD Unix.
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We use it at work.

I hate it.

It's kinda like a Mac but not as polished or as useful to the average user.

OSX was built on Linux and *BSD Unix.

I wasn't aware of the Linux on Mac, just the Unix.i could be mistaken though, it happened once, a long time ago, in a place far, far away...
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:26:51 PM EDT
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I have one laptop with Ubuntu 14.1 on it and I hate it.
I also had to use it when I worked for Honeywell, hated it there too.

I suppose it works for some of the "under the bleachers" guys - but I hate it!
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:27:40 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:30:36 PM EDT
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I haven't had a working Windows box at home in almost a decade.  I've tried just about all the major distros.  For a beginner can't really beat Linux Mint.
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Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:31:27 PM EDT
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Debian FTMFW.
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:31:42 PM EDT
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RHEL at work, Debian at home.
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:34:17 PM EDT
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ArchLinux, OSX, and Win8.1 at home. OSX/ArchLinux at work.
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:34:30 PM EDT
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Sounds like you are blaming your OS for an administrative or institutional issue.
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:36:59 PM EDT
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Ubuntu and Kali
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:38:08 PM EDT
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I wasn't aware of the Linux on Mac, just the Unix.i could be mistaken though, it happened once, a long time ago, in a place far, far away...
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We use it at work.

I hate it.

It's kinda like a Mac but not as polished or as useful to the average user.

OSX was built on Linux and *BSD Unix.

I wasn't aware of the Linux on Mac, just the Unix.i could be mistaken though, it happened once, a long time ago, in a place far, far away...


I am pretty sure the darwin kernel has some stuff that was brought over from linux also.    IIRC one version had some SELinux security features built in.
Its mostly built off of NeXTSTEP, and NeXSTEP was developed from *BSD.
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:39:00 PM EDT
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Yup.
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:40:30 PM EDT
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Yup.

Slackware or GTFO!
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:42:01 PM EDT
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Android
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:43:52 PM EDT
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I'm a  lover of all OS's.  

At work I manage my own domain that I use for development.

I manage RHEL, W2K8, W2K12, Solaris 10 Sparc, and Ubuntu (desktop version for Xwin environment to perform GUI software installs).

I don't really favor any.  Every OS has it's pros and cons.
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:44:10 PM EDT
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I am pretty sure the darwin kernel has some stuff that was brought over from linux also.    IIRC one version had some SELinux security features built in.
Its mostly built off of NeXTSTEP, and NeXSTEP was developed from *BSD.
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We use it at work.

I hate it.

It's kinda like a Mac but not as polished or as useful to the average user.

OSX was built on Linux and *BSD Unix.

I wasn't aware of the Linux on Mac, just the Unix.i could be mistaken though, it happened once, a long time ago, in a place far, far away...


I am pretty sure the darwin kernel has some stuff that was brought over from linux also.    IIRC one version had some SELinux security features built in.
Its mostly built off of NeXTSTEP, and NeXSTEP was developed from *BSD.

That makes sense.
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:44:37 PM EDT
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I used to run Slackware many years ago. It looks like nothing has been done to it for a couple years.
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:46:50 PM EDT
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Yeah, I think 14.1 is the latest and it was released in 2013.
I am just loyal to it.
I started with FreeBSD and Slackware.  Then Redhat.
Debian based distros are pretty nice right now.
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:46:51 PM EDT
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Damned slackers!
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:50:04 PM EDT
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I built out a DAW a few weeks ago and set it up as a dual boot with Windows.  I never set up dual boots anymore, I virtualize everything but since it was a DAW I wanted the each OS to be able to touch the hardware directly.



It brought back memories of 1999.  Complete and total clusterfuck and sitting up all night reading forum posts of other people who couldn't get sound working either.  In fairness I didn't hand pick the hardware, it was just what I had lying around.  But this is the year 2015 for shits sake.



Just like it was over 15 years ago, in order to actually make the fucker work and be sexy in a multimedia fashion I would have to build the box out with hardware I had researched and knew for a fact is going to work.



I hardly even boot into the Linux side.  All my VST's Just WorkTM perfectly fine in Windows 8 and I don't have to spend time fucking with WINE or pulling on my dick to get this or that done.  I just sit down and start working.  When did linux get windows VST support anyway, like 6 months ago???  lol.  It's not like every vendor on the fucking planet has been delivering Win32/64/OSX VST's since forever and there has been shit available for Linux except what some douchebag wrote in his moms basement.



It's not the best example, as there are plenty of applications where I would happily run Linux to get the job done.  These days though other than the dual boot non working piece of shit I just built, I'm not running any linux on my home network. Unless you count the four DD-WRT devices.  My NAS is BSD.





Also,



I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.




Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:50:49 PM EDT
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Damned slackers!
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Damned slackers!


Slacker?   Shit.     Most linux guys today have not had the joy of driving 50 miles to find an actual modem because a winmodem was just not going to work, or spending hours creating a kernel and trying to edit Xwindows by hand to get the damn thing to work.   I love the console because most of the time I did not even bother to put xwinows on a machine.  Sometimes it was because I was lazy, sometimes it was because the 120mb hard drive did not have enough room.  
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:51:17 PM EDT
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Ubuntu is the best solution I have found with regard to the widest array of hardware being picked up.

When I was younger I did a lot of programming and spent a lot of time with debian & openbsd.

What I don't like today is how a lot of the distros are moving toward the android app model of package management. Its easy to turn a system into a shitshow with dpkg, rpms  and manually compiled programs all on the same system when it comes time for upgrades.
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:53:43 PM EDT
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Ubuntu is the best solution I have found with regard to the widest array of hardware being picked up.

When I was younger I did a lot of programming and spent a lot of time with debian & openbsd.

What I don't like today is how a lot of the distros are moving toward the android app model of package management. Its easy to turn a system into a shitshow with dpkg, rpms  and manually compiled programs all on the same system when it comes time for upgrades.
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Ubuntu is based on Debain.
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Ubuntu is the best solution I have found with regard to the widest array of hardware being picked up.

When I was younger I did a lot of programming and spent a lot of time with debian & openbsd.

What I don't like today is how a lot of the distros are moving toward the android app model of package management. Its easy to turn a system into a shitshow with dpkg, rpms  and manually compiled programs all on the same system when it comes time for upgrades.

Ubuntu is based on Debain.


I understand.
Link Posted: 7/16/2015 11:57:35 PM EDT
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I built out a DAW a few weeks ago and set it up as a dual boot with Windows.  I never set up dual boots anymore, I virtualize everything but since it was a DAW I wanted the each OS to be able to touch the hardware directly.

It brought back memories of 1999.  Complete and total clusterfuck and sitting up all night reading forum posts of other people who couldn't get sound working either.  In fairness I didn't hand pick the hardware, it was just what I had lying around.  But this is the year 2015 for shits sake.

Just like it was over 15 years ago, in order to actually make the fucker work and be sexy in a multimedia fashion I would have to build the box out with hardware I had researched and knew for a fact is going to work.

I hardly even boot into the Linux side.  All my VST's Just WorkTM perfectly fine in Windows 8 and I don't have to spend time fucking with WINE or pulling on my dick to get this or that done.  I just sit down and start working.  When did linux get windows VST support anyway, like 6 months ago???  lol.  It's not like every vendor on the fucking planet has been delivering Win32/64/OSX VST's since forever and there has been shit available for Linux except what some douchebag wrote in his moms basement.

It's not the best example, as there are plenty of applications where I would happily run Linux to get the job done.  These days though other than the dual boot non working piece of shit I just built, I'm not running any linux on my home network. Unless you count the four DD-WRT devices.  My NAS is BSD.


Also,

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX. Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called "Linux", and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project. There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called "Linux" distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

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I have to read that in chapter 1 in every new book that comes out for the latest rhel distro.  
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