Does anyone else here use a Linux distro other than Ubuntu?

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03 Oct 2010, 6:57 pm

I personally use Debian, but everyone else seems to use Ubuntu or some variant.


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03 Oct 2010, 7:46 pm

I'm not a Linux fan, but I have played around with SUSE Linux Enterprise Server.


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03 Oct 2010, 7:47 pm

I've played around with Vector (based on slackware) and Slax (based on slackware and a live CD).


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03 Oct 2010, 8:05 pm

What I meant was use it on a daily basis, not just tried it out a couple years ago.


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03 Oct 2010, 8:50 pm

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Almost every distro I've used. I'd like to use Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux or Lubuntu but I can't get wifi to work on them. So I'm stuck with using distros that are easy to set up and use (Ubuntu, Mint, etc.) and they just don't do it for me.



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03 Oct 2010, 8:58 pm

Science_Guy wrote:
Almost every distro I've used. I'd like to use Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux or Lubuntu but I can't get wifi to work on them. So I'm stuck with using distros that are easy to set up and use (Ubuntu, Mint, etc.) and they just don't do it for me.


I had to install a driver to get WiFi working on my Debian box. I found it by getting the name of my wireless adapter and then searching it on Google (in quotes) along with the words "linux" and "driver". I came to a page on the Debian Wiki that tells you how to install it. I just copied and pasted the code from there, and I was able to get the wireless driver that way.


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03 Oct 2010, 9:00 pm

I have also used Fedora, Ubuntu, CentOS,

The one linux Verison I miss is the old Mandrake


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03 Oct 2010, 9:10 pm

I prefer Debian, but until the new Broadcom drivers get into the mainline kernel I'm sticking with Ubuntu/Mint because I don't like messing with Ndiswrapper. Unfortunately, for my chipset it is not a simple matter of copy-pasting some commands from the Debian wiki. There are a handful of different half-documented ways to get my wifi working on Debian, and none of them work consistently.

Also, freeze time in Debian sucks. Updates to Testing stop for months at a time.

But I consider Debian and Ubuntu to be pretty similar. I guess the real question is, who uses a non-Debian-based distro? I know there's an Arch user or two around here. Any Red Hatters?


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03 Oct 2010, 10:19 pm

I'm running Slackware right now. I hate KDE and installed GNOME 2.32 instead. KDE never works for me anyway.


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04 Oct 2010, 1:14 am

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04 Oct 2010, 3:23 am

SuSE, at work. Otherwise Ubuntu.


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04 Oct 2010, 5:26 am

Orwell wrote:
I guess the real question is, who uses a non-Debian-based distro? I know there's an Arch user or two around here. Any Red Hatters?


Yes, Fedora works great.



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04 Oct 2010, 6:22 am

Why use anything but a Debian based system?


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04 Oct 2010, 6:34 am

LordoftheMonkeys wrote:
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Almost every distro I've used. I'd like to use Debian, Fedora, Arch Linux or Lubuntu but I can't get wifi to work on them. So I'm stuck with using distros that are easy to set up and use (Ubuntu, Mint, etc.) and they just don't do it for me.


I had to install a driver to get WiFi working on my Debian box. I found it by getting the name of my wireless adapter and then searching it on Google (in quotes) along with the words "linux" and "driver". I came to a page on the Debian Wiki that tells you how to install it. I just copied and pasted the code from there, and I was able to get the wireless driver that way.

I installed my wireless driver (it's a Broadcom :[) and then ran iwconfig and it still said "no wireless connections." I'll have to look at the Debian wiki again, maybe it will have a code that'll get mine working.



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04 Oct 2010, 6:36 am

Fuzzy wrote:
Why use anything but a Debian based system?


Because apt-get is slow.



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04 Oct 2010, 7:25 am

Science_Guy wrote:
I installed my wireless driver (it's a Broadcom :[) and then ran iwconfig and it still said "no wireless connections." I'll have to look at the Debian wiki again, maybe it will have a code that'll get mine working.


Did you reboot into the new kernel?


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