Since I work with UNIX all day when I work, I try not to look at it when I working on my system.
I think we should sticky this as the official nerd thread...
openSUSE is another good one (my personal favourite) and Fedora's not bad either. This is where virtual machines are great - you can try them all without any consequences.Ubuntu is probably the most user friendly out there.
openSUSE is another good one (my personal favourite) and Fedora's not bad either. This is where virtual machines are great - you can try them all without any consequences.
I tried to use RH back before the RHEL days (RH9 was my first distribution) and just couldn't get into it. Gave it another go with Fedora Core 3/4 through 6 and still found myself wondering why I would use it permanently. There's just something about it that irks me and I can't put my finger on it. I think it might have something to do with the allure of YaST which, despite claims that it's bloated, I love.
Well, now I have to question your sanity.hey, I even really liked solaris
Well, now I have to question your sanity.
I tried Solaris a while back and had to have a drink after trying it. I didn't think it was possible to make an operating system so slow. Now, mind you, I was running it in a VM but not only was is slow relative to other VMs I run but it was slow in VirtualBox! Ugh, the thought of trying to use it again makes me cringe. It tarnishes the Unix name. Haha.
So, I just found this - a tip to adding smiley faces to the bash prompt. I don't know how to feel about that.
Oh yes, I've heard that Solaris runs like a dream on Sparc machines. I should have tested that - I got an old Sun box from someone once for $20 but never ended up using it (it weighed more than a car). I was going to run Linux on it but never got the chance since I didn't have a keyboard to start the install process.