Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Sun 25th May 2003 08:29 UTC
It's been almost a year since our first Linux distro poll, so here is your... annual Linux poll. Click more and vote for your favorite distribution!
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I chose "other" for CRUX. CRUX is basically a simplified slackware with a bsd-style ports system. I prefer it over Gentoo, because (and I have to be honest here) some Gentoo users have ruined it for me by running around plugging Gentoo in webforums where it's not needed. I know this says nothing about the actual quality of the distro, but technically I actually find CRUX superior, because it's more flexible. You can install it without its ports system, and just download and make your own packages yourself. It will then behave more like a Linux From Scratch box+package management. You don't even need the package management tools! You can also install a tool called prt-get, which works on top of the ports system to take care of dependencies and update stuff without cd'ing into the ports tree.
Maybe I should consider the whole desktop experience more; how well a distro provides a clean, easy to use desktop ui experience. IF that were the case, I'd go with RedHat, but then again, I'm not one to speak, since I unfortunately can't bring myself to accept all these ui frontends to configuration and such that cripple a CLI user