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  • C CaptainSeeSharp

    What is the best free Linux distribution out there? I want something tailored for development, science, math, those sort of things.

    Watch the Fall of the Republic (High Quality 2:24:19)[^] Sons Of Liberty - Free Album (They sound very much like Metallica, great lyrics too)[^]

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    CPallini
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    At the moment, I'm happy with Ubuntu. In the past I worked well with CentOS. :)

    If the Lord God Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon the Creation, I would have recommended something simpler. -- Alfonso the Wise, 13th Century King of Castile.
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    • T Tomas Brennan

      You really should check out Slackware [^] The best and dare I say the oldest distro ... have been playing with it since Slackware with kernel 1.2.13....It's fast, am more of a CLI junkie, rather than clicking here and there...occasionally I use WindowMaker.... I know, I know, it's debatable...let's not turn this into a flamewar akin to Emacs vs Vi.... :-D Best regards, Tom.

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      Ed Poore
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      I might do, I haven't tried out Slackware in literally years. Boots up VMWare...

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      • T Tomas Brennan

        You really should check out Slackware [^] The best and dare I say the oldest distro ... have been playing with it since Slackware with kernel 1.2.13....It's fast, am more of a CLI junkie, rather than clicking here and there...occasionally I use WindowMaker.... I know, I know, it's debatable...let's not turn this into a flamewar akin to Emacs vs Vi.... :-D Best regards, Tom.

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        Dr Walt Fair PE
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        I played with Soft Landing Systems first, then Slackware. Of course both of those were before Version 1.0 -- something like 0.95 or whatever. BTW, vi rocks. Emacs, well, ...

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        • C Christian Graus

          OSX.

          Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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          Anders Molin
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          He asked about Linux not Unix ;P

          - Anders

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          • C CaptainSeeSharp

            What is the best free Linux distribution out there? I want something tailored for development, science, math, those sort of things.

            Watch the Fall of the Republic (High Quality 2:24:19)[^] Sons Of Liberty - Free Album (They sound very much like Metallica, great lyrics too)[^]

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            TheCardinal
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            linux mint a variant of ubuntu. :thumbsup:

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            • C Christian Graus

              OSX.

              Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.

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              Mark_Wallace
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              OSX sells.

              I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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              • C CaptainSeeSharp

                What is the best free Linux distribution out there? I want something tailored for development, science, math, those sort of things.

                Watch the Fall of the Republic (High Quality 2:24:19)[^] Sons Of Liberty - Free Album (They sound very much like Metallica, great lyrics too)[^]

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                Mark_Wallace
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                I only use Linux in VMs, but I have fewest problems with CentOS.

                I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!

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                • C CaptainSeeSharp

                  What is the best free Linux distribution out there? I want something tailored for development, science, math, those sort of things.

                  Watch the Fall of the Republic (High Quality 2:24:19)[^] Sons Of Liberty - Free Album (They sound very much like Metallica, great lyrics too)[^]

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                  JoeSox
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                  My vote is for Ubuntu.

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                  • E Ed Poore

                    Pete O'Hanlon wrote:

                    It's a breeze to set up

                    Really? It's the one distro that's continuously had problems with my hardware (the wireless card in particular). I mean, even Gentoo picked it up...

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                    Pete OHanlon
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                    I've had zero install problems with it. Perhaps you have odd hardware - ooh err missus.

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                    • C CaptainSeeSharp

                      What is the best free Linux distribution out there? I want something tailored for development, science, math, those sort of things.

                      Watch the Fall of the Republic (High Quality 2:24:19)[^] Sons Of Liberty - Free Album (They sound very much like Metallica, great lyrics too)[^]

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                      Russell Jones
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                      There's a derivative of ubuntu called scibuntu which should have loads of science tools in it!

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                      • C CaptainSeeSharp

                        What is the best free Linux distribution out there? I want something tailored for development, science, math, those sort of things.

                        Watch the Fall of the Republic (High Quality 2:24:19)[^] Sons Of Liberty - Free Album (They sound very much like Metallica, great lyrics too)[^]

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                        Nagy Vilmos
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                        This[^] should be suitable for you.


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                        • P Pete OHanlon

                          I've had zero install problems with it. Perhaps you have odd hardware - ooh err missus.

                          "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

                          As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

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                          Ed Poore
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                          Um.... :-O Not overly odd, the only one which is a bit odd is the wireless card which is an AirPace WiFi thing but in every other distro I can just select an Atheros 5k chipset and it works, just not in Ubuntu...

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                          • C CaptainSeeSharp

                            What is the best free Linux distribution out there? I want something tailored for development, science, math, those sort of things.

                            Watch the Fall of the Republic (High Quality 2:24:19)[^] Sons Of Liberty - Free Album (They sound very much like Metallica, great lyrics too)[^]

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                            Lost User
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                            I am no expert but Ubunto struck me a pretty damn good.

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                            • C CaptainSeeSharp

                              What is the best free Linux distribution out there? I want something tailored for development, science, math, those sort of things.

                              Watch the Fall of the Republic (High Quality 2:24:19)[^] Sons Of Liberty - Free Album (They sound very much like Metallica, great lyrics too)[^]

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                              mobius111001
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                              Linux Mint

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                              • P Pete OHanlon

                                You know that best is a highly subjective term. Having tried various Linux distros since about 1994, I'd have to say that Ubuntu is probably the best that I've setup, and it has one helluva lot of applications ready to install with it. It's a breeze to set up, and is friendly enough that I'm happy enough to install it on family machines.

                                "WPF has many lovers. It's a veritable porn star!" - Josh Smith

                                As Braveheart once said, "You can take our freedom but you'll never take our Hobnobs!" - Martin Hughes.

                                My blog | My articles | MoXAML PowerToys | Onyx

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                                Dan Neely
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                                For dev work? A friend of mine tried using it for that a few years before giving up in disgust because all its don't shoot yourself in the foot features made installing/configuring server type tools a nightmare.

                                3x12=36 2x12=24 1x12=12 0x12=18

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