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Hey, great article and a nice selection of choices...

2008-11-16T14:38:00.000+08:00

Hey, great article and a nice selection of choices. I certainly believe you that some of these unknowns deserve better mention. Two of them in particular have attracted my attention: SliTAZ, mostly for its amazingly small footprint, then sidux, which successfully manages to tame the packaging wilds of Debian Sid and turn it into a mood stabilized, cutting edge Debian based system.

Other people have suggested and nominated a few more, so let me throw in my bunch, too. Sidux is already in there, and it is one of my three favorites. My other two favorites are a well-known, but fading distribution called SimplyMEPIS. Like several others in your list, SimplyMEPIS is largely the effort of one man, the incredibly talented, but sometimes elusive Warren Woodford. Quite frankly, I have not seen a more quality oriented packager than Warren, and his work shows it. SimplyMEPIS 8.0, already in its fifth Beta test build, should, if all continues well, be out in time for the holidays. If it does not vault well up there into DistroWatch's Top Ten once again I would be amazed. It is that good. But another sidekick to SimplyMEPIS, the less well known antiX, which had a M7.5 release not all that long ago, is now also working on an M8.0 release, and came out with Test 2 the other day. Like MEPIS, it is well packaged, a bit more experimental and leading, and the developers are not all wizards like Warren, but they are more of a community and they do an awesome job. antiX carves a really interesting niche in the Live CD and small, fast distro world. It is a bit larger than SLAX, but I feel that it is more feature complete. For example, you have a good chance that Wireless will work with antiX. With SLAX, more than likely you will have to put some modules together to get it working. antiX is also flexible and easy to extend too. There are also a few remastering scripts floating around for would be customizers and integrators.

Of course, everyone has their favorites. If you truly have a system that suits your needs, by all means, stay with it. If, on the other hand, you like to try out different systems occasionally and you have not tried out these three, give yourself a treat and try them all out. If sidux, antiX, and SimplyMEPIS don't do it for you, I don't know what will. You satisfy your craving for the cutting edge with sidux. You get FAST with antiX, and you get easy and stable with SimplyMEPIS. They ALL work REALLY WELL, though. By having all three available, there is not much that will be elusive to you; they certainly meet all of my personal computing needs.

Hi. Thanks for this wonderful site. I sure am lear...

2008-10-11T11:39:00.000+08:00

Hi. Thanks for this wonderful site. I sure am learning a lot from it. I just started using Linux and I'm having fun trying out the different distros. So far I've tried OpenSUSE, Fedora, Mandriva, Debian, Slackware, Vector, Mint, and Zenwalk. I've installed them all (I have several partitions on several harddrives! LOL.) on my computers, just to try them. So far, I'm liking the Slackware-based distros (Zenwalk, Vector). The others just are too slow on my machines. And Zenwalk is the only distro that installs on my laptop, which is really weird (or maybe not since it's a NEO - only available in the Philippines, I think). I also like Mint (the Xfce version). Maybe it's just Xfce that's making the speed difference? Anyway, I like the minimalist attitude of Zenwalk and Vector. Now, I'm going to try Arch, Nimble, and Pardus. Thanks, again for the info.

Sidux. No question, no remorse. SIDUX 4EVA!!

2008-10-03T00:32:00.000+08:00

Sidux. No question, no remorse. SIDUX 4EVA!!

SabayonLinux is worth trying. Gentoo-based, but w...

2008-10-02T04:33:00.000+08:00

SabayonLinux is worth trying. Gentoo-based, but with a binary installer for just about everything. KDE default, but GNOME as an option.

@dondashguitar: Thanks for sharing it with us. I a...

2008-10-02T01:07:00.000+08:00

@dondashguitar: Thanks for sharing it with us. I agree with you about PCLinuxOS as I've been using it before.

I think you are geekier than me because you have some good distro choices there :-)

Thanks once again and best regrds,

Jun

After using Ubuntu and Fedora for a long time, I a...

2008-10-01T17:10:00.000+08:00

After using Ubuntu and Fedora for a long time, I also finally settled down on Pardus 2008.1. Great distro. For English support, use the worldforum or the english users mailing list. You can be sure to find someone to support you, if you ever need ;)

Once I decided to ditch Windoze, I spent most of t...

2008-10-01T11:58:00.000+08:00

Once I decided to ditch Windoze, I spent most of the past spring and summer distro-hopping. I must have tried out fifty different distros, including the "top" ones, plenty of obscure ones, even all the ones mentioned here. I wanted to get it right. There were many I installed for a few days (eg. Mint, Mandriva, PCLOS, Ubuntu, Debian, openSUSE), all of which sooner or later pissed me off for one reason or another. I've settled on Pardus; it's a brilliant piece of work. Does everything I want, and does it well. Give it a try, you won't be sorry. The only downside I've found is that the support is a little weak, but I've seldom needed to use it.

Seems you dont know yet SYS . This is an automati...

2008-10-01T07:39:00.000+08:00

Seems you dont know yet SYS . This is an automatically-installing easy and full distro (needs 20 GB free not-partioned space on the hard disk), working good and fast, everything updated.

report: http://www.linuxquestions.org/reviews/showproduct.php?product=834

install-dvd: ftp://ftp.uni-siegen.de/pub/sys-linux/SYS_Linux.iso

I've tried all the distros you've mentioned but pe...

2008-10-01T00:56:00.000+08:00

I've tried all the distros you've mentioned but perhaps I'm more of an 'entry level' geek than you are. For ease of use "right out of the box" I think it's hard to beat PCLinuxOS. I think Linux Mint is more popular but I found it to be less stable than PCLinuxOS. I have three favorites for resource challenged systems; PCFluxboxOS, PC-BSD and KateOS. I try them in that order and stick with the first one which works on the hardware. For a fast booting 'repair kit' distro I don't think anything is better than SystemRescueCD. It's got a host of features I'm not knowledgeable enough to use but that's a circumstance I'm trying to alter as quickly as I can. When you're my age it takes longer to catch up with all the young fellers. I enjoyed reading your thoughts; best regards.