Star Linux Distros that Don't Suck
Linked by Jordan Spencer Cunningham on Wed 7th Oct 2009 19:44 UTC
Linux Mind your manners, now. We're not saying that they do in general. There's just a good chap who has come up with a list in two parts of varied Linux distributions that he deems use-worthy. He also gives a short description about them and a link to their project websites. Some are the obvious Ubuntu, Gentoo, and other major players, but others you may or may not have heard of and may find useful. Enjoy reading part one from May of this year and part two that was published just recently in October. What are some of the perhaps more obscure Linux distributions that you've found useful and noteworthy?
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RE: Mandriva?
by stabbyjones on Thu 8th Oct 2009 03:41 UTC in reply to "Mandriva?"
stabbyjones
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2008-04-15

Mandriva doesn't make the list because it does suck.

Pardus is on the list because it's a KDE distro that doesn't suck.

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RE[2]: Mandriva?
by Bobthearch on Thu 8th Oct 2009 03:52 in reply to "RE: Mandriva?"
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2006-01-27

What, are they still creating overlapping partitions? ;)

Edited 2009-10-08 03:53 UTC

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RE[2]: Mandriva?
by WereCatf on Thu 8th Oct 2009 16:58 in reply to "RE: Mandriva?"
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2006-02-15

Mandriva doesn't make the list because it does suck.

Pardus is on the list because it's a KDE distro that doesn't suck.

I suppose you mean Mandriva's KDE desktop sucks. I tried it myself and even though it is very plain, like they had only replaced the default theme and wallpaper and done nothing else to the default configuration, it still didn't really suck. I would have changed all the settings anyway. And I prefer GNOME as my DE.

The default theme in Mandriva is fugly IMHO, and there's lots of things here and there that really need some more attention. Like f.ex. the applications installed by default. But I like the tools Mandriva packs, they're good quality and stable.

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RE[2]: Mandriva?
by fretinator on Thu 8th Oct 2009 17:54 in reply to "RE: Mandriva?"
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2005-07-06

Mandriva doesn't make the list because it does suck.

Now that's objective!

I should mention that I usually run Ubuntu, but the latest seems to not support frequency scaling on a Celeron Mobile processor. I'll have to file a bug report.

Meanwhile, I have switched that laptop to Mandriva 2009.1, Gnome One edition. Scaling works beautifully, as does everything else. It had been a while since I had used Mandriva, and I must say I am impressed. It is very polished.

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