![]() ![]() Personally I use Arch Linux, One caveat: after a fresh install of Arch you're left with a bare-bones command-line environment with just the package manager and the system tools, and you build your own custom system from there (which can be very powerful, tailoring your system to your own requirements). ![]() The prime examples of the rolling release are Arch and Gentoo (although Debian unstable is also rolling). Redhat tends to be used in enterprise situations (the Linux servers here at work run Redhat) and Fedora is (very roughly) to Redhat as Debian testing/unstable are to Debian stable.Īll of these distros use a distinct release cycle a new version is released only every so often (6 months for Ubuntu, others vary) - your other option is the "rolling release" model, where a new release of each package is made as it comes in from its own development team ("upstream" in Linux jargon) and (in theory at least) any system can be upgraded to the most up-to-date possible state by issuing a couple of commands. ![]() Then there's the Fedora/Redhat side, which I don't have a great deal of familiarity with. (Ubuntu is based off Debian's testing branch) Downsides - the "stable" branch is very conservative, if you like your software to be the latest version available, Debian stable isn't the one for you! On the other hand there are the "testing" and "unstable" branches which, despite the names, are usually stable enough for home use. There are older distros, but without Debian I don't think Linux would have had the success it has. No discussion of Linux can be had without mentioning the daddy of them all, Debian. ![]() It's based off Ubuntu, with most of Canonical's insanity stripped out, and has a pretty good support forum. Linux Mint is a usually seen as a good all-round noob-friendly distro if you just want to run the graphical installer and get going within about half an hour. Most Linux noobs seem to use Ubuntu as their first distro, but increasing political and practical differences between Canonical (the company behind Ubuntu) and the rest of the Linux world make me slightly reluctant to recommend it or any of its direct offspring. (And two posts have gone up since I started typing this!) ![]()
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