Declared after extensive testing at Tuxradar.. My Alma Mater .. Grin
Participants were Arch, SuSE, Fedora, Ubuntu, Mint & Debian
Read it and Weep (non-Debian Users that is).. http://www.tuxradar.com/content/best-distro-2011
There will be lots of disagreement of course but the results were due to All Around averaging.
Can't understand why the Testers left out of the Testing la Grande Dame' of Linuxes Slackware!
I left a comment and said so......
Debian "The best Linux distro of 2011!"
Debian "The best Linux distro of 2011!"
Slackware ( Manjaro ) Salix, AntiX, Bunsen, Calculate
Re: Debian "The best Linux distro of 2011!"
I know why I've said in another thread that Slackware is not one of the big distributions. It's the oldest and by far the coolest but I'm sure it has a relativly small user base (compared to RedHat, Suse, Debian based stuff) and often it's just not considered for tests or third party softwaresqlpython wrote:Can't understand why the Testers left out of the Testing la Grande Dame' of Linuxes Slackware!
I left a comment and said so......
Re: Debian "The best Linux distro of 2011!"
Probably because Debian is stable as a rock and includes an incredible amount of software in its repos, which is exactly what Joe User wants. It does make up for that by making it an utter pain to compile anything, but most desktop users do not care about that.
Re: Debian "The best Linux distro of 2011!"
What I've learned in my early Linux years: I hate all distros with "-devel" packages because they make compiling stuff horrible. And I've always met a situation where I needed to compile something.GJones wrote:It does make up for that by making it an utter pain to compile anything
Re: Debian "The best Linux distro of 2011!"
That is so true. No matter how huge the repo of a distro can be, it never has every package you might need. And besides compiling from source teaches you at least a little bit and gives you the full power of open-source software.thenktor wrote:What I've learned in my early Linux years: I hate all distros with "-devel" packages because they make compiling stuff horrible. And I've always met a situation where I needed to compile something.GJones wrote:It does make up for that by making it an utter pain to compile anything