Recently some of my friends and I had a discussion on which Linux Distro is the best, I favored Feodra while he said Ubuntu was the best. So eventually I said that for a whole week, starting today I would test 5 Linux distoro's and see which is the best. Today's Distros were

1. Feodra

Me being a long time Fedora user, loved it in all ways, how ever I would ave to be a hardcore rater. I found that Feodra 13 looked rather ugly compared to my favorite, Fedora 6. Another problem was a lack of software. After testing some others I can say that I hate YUM.

2. Ubuntu

Ahh yes, the ditro I hated ever since it came out. Well i gave it a rethink and here are my thoughts. It seem's to kiddish. It;s just too simple in my opinion. Why, I don't know. Another was that Why somemuch Purple. Even the Terminal has purple, it looks terrible. And after some research I found that Ubuntu has more viruses than any other Disto. Viruses on a Linux, Woah!

3. Suse

Well it is great. It has some problems that both Feodra and Ubuntu have, but over all it's like a super version of Windows 7. Its just an overall good OS.

4. Slackware

My 2nd Favorite distoro. Well the only complaint is thats it's a little too much like UNIX. Not suprisingly thats the reason that it's not that good of a Distor. Th second complaint is that the install process was hard. I don't knoe what, but it was just Hard. But for an advance user, this is the choice.

5.Debian.

What do you need to make a good distro. A Debra and Ian. Overall its like the grandfather of today's high-class distro. It should be shutdown but it just keeps going. Its is the basis of lots of Linux and well, its just great. The only thing I hate is that it won't change.

Well this was just a brief review on some Distros, but I will be back to give a more Linux distrp review soon. Great, my VM just froze as I am writing this.

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Comment by Brandon Mezei on September 8, 2010 at 1:15pm: My first exposer to Linux was Suse, after that I moved on to Fedora but I found there was not enough software to use on a every day basis. I got into BSD for a while but who has the time to compile programs from source code, PCBSD was a fun alternative, but not enough software at my time of use to make it worth the switch. Ubuntu has defiantly in my mind been the best chance of bridging the user gap between Windows and Linux, they've done an amazing job bringing Debian into the common household.

Comment by Jay G on September 8, 2010 at 4:19am: Thanks everyone, for the useful comments so far. Now for me, Mint 9 is well ahead. Based on Ubuntu, with refinements, it's elegant and particularly user-friendly. Five stars.

Comment by Julie Davis on September 7, 2010 at 12:53pm: I agree with all of these. Ubuntu 10 is really quite good and I can see it's collegiate appeal. I would add Freespire for a good overall everyday system and Puppylinux 4.3 for an older system. Teenpup is still a good choice for 512Mb systems as well.

Comment by Jorge on September 7, 2010 at 12:24am: I personally think Mint is the best desktop linux distro out there. I've tried four of your top 5, the exclusion being Slackware, and found that they weren't as complete and refined as I'd like them to be, or they always had ONE really annoying feature that totally killed the experience for me.

As Tyler mentioned, Mint comes with proprietary codecs installed by default, which is why I switched to it from Ubuntu. I just think Mint is a more refined OS overall.

Comment by Tyler Brown on September 5, 2010 at 1:00pm: 1. Fedora is a great distro, but its lack of software in the default repositories (and even some software I use not being in RPM Fusion) is kind of a disappointment. Otherwise, its a very FAST, and efficient distribution. And, I don't get why people Dislike YUM, its output in the command line is actually fairly clean, compared to apt-get. And if you don't like using YUM, just use PackageKit.

2. Eh, Ubuntu is actually one of my favorite distributions. Certainly, there are A LOT of things Canonical could do better, especially in terms of their release schedule (*.10 releases should be new feature releases and *.04 releases should be focused entirely on bug fixes and polish). However, I love the fact that I can very easily add a PPA if I need to install something else, or want a more updated version of a package (however, adding too many PPA's can create somewhat of an issue). As for the purple..... you know you can change the wallpaper AND theme if you want to. Its not like Windows where you have to pay money or replace a few files to get a new theme. However, I also do realize that First Impression IS everything to the new user, and just as I think Canonical is starting to realize that, they throw on ugly orange splotches onto the possibly 10.10 wallpaper. Go figure.

3. SUSE.. Eh. Its never rubbed right with me, if that even sounded right. I like certain things about it, but YaST is a pain in the butt. Its not so bad for configuration, but for Package Management its just HORRIBLE. And the repos never worked properly for me, etc. =/ I mean again, I'm sure its a great distro for some people, but just not one of my favorites.

4. Slackware. Never had much experience w/ it, so can't say much about it.

5. Debian is AMAZING for Servers, and just very easy to manage on the server-side. For desktop use, the stable release is very very out of date, but the unstable release is normally stable enough half the time to get the job done anyway (most debian-based distros use the Unstable release anyway). We also have Debian to thank for Synaptic and apt-get. Synaptic being one of my FAVORITE graphical Package Managers out there (on Debian based distros that is. Synaptic just doesn't seem right on RPM based distros like PCLinuxOS for example). I just love how Synaptic is as powerful as the command-line counterparts that debian offers such as apt-get and aptitude.

A few distros that would be worth mentioning as well would be Mandriva, which is an RPM distro, but it is definitely its own thing as well. Its a great, easy to use distribution that was actually the choice-distribution for many new users up until Ubuntu came around. Its still a very great distro and I'd be willing to pay for the powerpack if I could. My main issue w/ Mandriva is the lack of an easy to install PAE kernel, and I'm not going 64-bit on Linux just use *stares at Adobe*

PCLinuxOS, as I've mentioned before, great distro, based on Mandriva, includes a lot of what you could need out of the box, etc. My biggest issue w/ it is the fact it uses Synaptic as its Package Manager. While I love Synaptic Package Manager, it just doesn't belong on RPM distributions. Not to mention since Gdebi is .deb specific, there is no way to install individual RPM's on PCLOS unless you either install KPacakgekit or do it via the command line.

Mint is another one, its based on Ubuntu, and it has proprietary codecs and drivers on it by default, as well as includes a lot of bug fixes Canonical misses/ignores (which is sad, because if Canonical would just focus more on bug fixing Ubuntu would have sooo much more potential). However, Mint is also considering going to a Debian based and being rolling release, so that'll make things even more interesting.

Arch - The lazy Mans Gentoo? nah. But you still have to build from the base up, installing your own UI, configuring a lot of things, etc. You have to be well versed with the command-line as well as there is really no graphical Package manager that I know of. But it is a great distribution, fast, very very customizable, etc.

And Zen - My only experience w/ a Slack-ware based distribution. Great distro, lightweight, fast. Package Management was a bit weird for me, but definitely really good. :)

So yeah, those are my views on the distros that you have tried out, and some distros I think you should definitely take a look at and try out and play around with. :)

Comment by Abhay Rangray on September 5, 2010 at 11:53am: Great, So many gramaticall errors

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