What is the best Linux OS?

And do you prefer live or installed Linux editions?

Install ones as they run faster once run.

Although ive only run 3 distros, i think that Fedora Core is the best, but i might try Knoppix as thats a good distro.

Speaking of Fedora Core, what do you think of this mug:

[img]http://www.cheeplinux.com/images/images_big/fedoramug.jpg[/img]

I got a load of these, so if anyone wants any more, ill post them.

Lives are good for recovery and messing.

Knoppix is very good, but i think it's purely a live distro.

linux just doesnt work wiv my machine, tried everythin, but i still vote

Hmm, don't know what's wrong with that. Might be the media, BIOS or CD Drive.

yeah, but i have tried most things out, so i cant be bothered, anyway, if i get an apple mac, i wont need it

LOL, well as I have mentioned in the Mac forum, you may actually be using a version of Linux! Though I'm not sure about that "fact" though.

i perefer the live cause i need windows for alot and my computer rund the live vertions as fast as windows so i dont see the point though im planing to install it on my spare 40 gb hard drive.

yeah, that's the reason I only use live. If I had a spare hard drive I would use a live version, but I don't. I need Windows for compatability of gaming and stuff.

If we make our linux, ours will be the best

No it won't. Probably the best Linux is Suse, but that costs money.

We wouldn't stand a chance of making a competative Linux, but it would be the best to us, if we made it, for that reason.

I tried Suse 9.2. The selection of software is brilliant, but it barely worked with any of my hardware at the time. Maybe 9.3 fixed that. It had way too many graphics issues - I think my card was too new for it (Radeon X850 XT PE)

Apparantly, ATI drivers for Linux absoloutely suck, big time. I have heard lots of people have trouble with ATI cards in Linux systems, whereas nVidia's Linux drivers are at the same level as their Windows counterparts (which are excellent). Though lets not turn this into another ATI vs nVidia thread!

Isn't linux microsoft but free and under a differnt name? Something called open software??!!

Does anybody have it?

Linux is a rival to Microsoft Windows. There are thousands (literally) of versions of Linux, most of which are free. Most Linux is also Open-Source, meaning you can edit it without legality issues.

The only problem is its incompatibility with most software, though this can usually be fixed with emulators.

I don't think that the purpose of Linux was to rival Windows or any other OS, rather to be the open-source alternative, based on Unix.

Most programs won't run on Windows, but if you get software from a good developer, they consider that not everybody is using Windows, and make it for Linux, Unix, Mac etc.

Generally, you'll find that developers at Sun, Apache, PHP, and various video/audio codecs and associated software, compression utilities, file-sharing software and bittorrent-like applications are made for Linux... but not things like computer games, unless your name is Bioware, Epic, and a few others... Most game servers are Linux based, even if the client application isn't.

It's purpose wasn't a rival, just that's what it's becoming.

For me, it's becoming more of a viable alternative. I am currently using Knoppix Linux 5.0.1 on my girlfriend's computer, and it's running great! Everything was picked up automatically, including the network, which needed absolutely no configuration whatsoever.

I am very much looking forward to getting Debian 'Etch' up and running on my computer, and looking forward to buying me and my girlfriend a new Mac running Mac OS X 10.4 :?)

This site looks pretty good in Konqueror, though the button images don't seem to work.

Fedora Core 6 is undoubtedly the easiest to install and use. Probably more secure too since it uses Red Hat's SELinux enhanced kernel. Using it right now, and don't like to use anything else!

Yeah, maybe I should give Fedora a try...

You can download the Fedora Core 6 Live CD from here: http://torrent.fedoraproject.org/
Check it out on your desktop PC (no wireless support on laptops)

Hmm, I cba to download it. LOL.

Next time we meet up ( ) I can give it to you ( )

Oooooh, sounds good!

It is