What distro do you use??

Sorry if I forgot any as there are so many I will limit it to the main ones... Please list your version as well...

I am on Linux Mint 4.0 with E17 on top..

Kris

I use debian lenny on my satellite m65-s809 and etch on my ever so old coppermine celeron at 600mhz server, I used ubuntu for a bit but when I found out ubuntu is based off debian unstable it made me want to try out the real deal and I haven't looked back.

I use Arch. I loke the rolling upgrade plans. I have also installed Gentoo on a Sun E450

what is it and what does it do?

I can only vote once but am also using FreeBSD on an older laptop....

I am a Novell SuSe user, and forever will be....but am kind of shocked Sabayon Linux isn't on the poll. An incredible distro, but its wayyyyy to large of an OS.

-J

Ubuntu 7.10 on my Lenovo Think Pad. I've tried Suse, PC Linux and Mandriva. Ubuntu is the easiest and most supported of all the distros.

I loved and used openSuse for years.... Then came their deal with the devil and it turned me off, along with many, many other of their long time users and supporters...

I DL and install their new releases just to see what they are up to but will NEVER use them as my distro of choice again...

Kris

*cough* I found my DOS 3.2 floppies. *cough*

Hahahahahahaahaha....

Ubuntu 7.10 still dual boot with XP to play games and innotek booting Linux Mint 4.0

New Linux user here!

Finally took the time to repartition my drive. I now have a triple boot system with XP Pro, Vista Business, and Ubuntu 7.10.

I use primarily Slackware on most of my servers, Kubuntu at home.

Hey all,

I use Ubuntu. All day everyday.. Well with the exception of work.. Have to use RHE5.
But as another user said in a different post ... apt-get is the greatest. I never got the hang of yum...

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Just picked up my Blackberry Pearl 8130 a few hours ago - after finding this list last evening and confirming Linux compatibility. Also acquired a UTStarcom/Franklin UM-150AL USB Wireless card, which is also Linux compatible.

I have been using Puppy Linux for several years, terrific distro. I settled on Puppy after trying a ton of others. Two new features include compatibility with Slackware apps and what are called ".pup's" What this means is that when you want to add a new app you find where someone has packaged it into a "foobar.pup" and just click on it - it autoloads!

Puppy is at Version 3.01 and there are dozens of "Puplets", spin-offs optimized for various specialization, e.g. TEENPup, ChurchPup, GrapPup, etc.

A parallel development is Version 4.x which is stripped down to an absolute minimum upon which one may build a super-customized "Puplet".

Merry CHRIST-mas to all from sunny Florida! doc

Hey Edoc great minds think alike, i too just purchased an 8130 today, I'm running pclinuxos, but have vast experience with slackware, can't believe it wasn't even listed. I haven't tried puppy but I hear that usb wireless works outa the box

I am an OpenSuse 10.3 x64 user.

[jim@daisy BlackBerry]$ uname -a

Linux daisy.home.lan 2.6.22.12-desktop-1mdv #1 SMP Tue Nov 20 08:38:27 EST 2007 i686 AMD Athlon(TM) XP1700+ GNU/Linux

Mandriva Linux 2008.

Using Netbeans to develop Java applications for my 8130 just for fun. If anyone has any ideas for apps they'd like to see, let me know. No promises, but if any seem interesting I may give it a shot.

Gentoo on my laptop (which got the vote), Fedora on my desktop & personal server, mostly Solaris & RHEL at work.

XP Pro and OpenSuse 10.3 dual Boot on my personal laptop.
XP Pro and Mandriva Free 2008 dual boot on a work laptop.
XP Pro and Sabayon 3.4f dual boot a work Dell 380 desktop.
Plus I keep playing with another set of LiveCDs such as
PCLOS, SimplyMepis, eLive, OpenGEU.
Wish I could put my mind more into Linux and CLI
than being stuck with MS Windows and GUI (at work)!

But, OpenSuse got my vote since I was an early adapter of
Suse from the 9.0 days before Novell grabbed it.

I lol'd as i've seen "unbuntu"...

I started centuries ago with Corel Linux (yeah, no joke!), coming to Suse, RedHat and from there to Fedora. Used it a long time, till Ubuntu came up.

I voted Ubuntu cause that is what I use for the most part at home. Another box runs IPCop but just sits in the corner and works behind the scenes.

In eary 96 or so, while perusing through Wal-Mart, I saw a 'new' O.S. on the cheap software shelf. I bought Red Hat for $4.99 that day. Tried it out, but I was young and dumb. Couldn't really figure it out. Later that year I tried Dragon Linux (Still have half the floppies for it somewhere).

I have tried so many distros though. I've got a copy of DSL on one of my thumbdrives and can boot into that at work when the boss is gone :-D

It's only been the last 3 years that I have really been using Linux though.

Gentoo here. I've been running it for about 3 years now. I'm not a fanboy about it, I just absolutely detest rpm-based distros. I'm a Solaris admin by trade, so dealing with poor package management is no real problem for me. I can deal with the compiling as I was already used to doing so when I ran Solaris on my main workstation.

--JamesT

I use Ubuntu 7.10 currently.

Can we make this a sticky so it is easier to keep track of the results?

Thanks for the suggestion... I don't think this needs a sicky... This is a BlackBerry Forum after all!!

Kris