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What Your Choice of Linux Distro Says about You

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the choose-wisely dept.

iter8 writes "NewsForge has an article explaining what your choice of distro says about you. There's no comment on what using Windows or OS X does for your rep. I use Mandrake, so that makes me suave and sophisticated."

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  1. Slackware? by slavemowgli · · Score: 5, Interesting

    No mention of Slackware? What a pity.

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  2. It works...? by DogDude · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What if I use the distro that I use because it's the only one that I could get to actually work?

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  3. No need for that by CaptainZapp · · Score: 5, Interesting
    Knoppix users are pushy and aggressive. It's not at all unusual for them to hand you a CD and tell you to boot from it.

    What a cincidence and a true story.

    One of the broad minded Windows admins in [insert major logistics company] yelled at me "Linux for President" when I passed his office before yesterday.

    It turns out that one of his laptops was fuxored and no matter what he wasn't able to boot it under Windows.

    Since he is broadminded and a good admin (even though he's an MCSE) he has his tools ready and one of it is Knoppix.

    The laptop booted like a charm, made the partition visible, the files where saved to another laptop and Linux oughta be president.

    There was really no need to push Knoppix on him.

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  4. Fun and lighthearted by polyp2000 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Thats a nice fun and lighthearted article for a saturday afternoon. Makes a change from all the serious stuff!

    I wonder though what about people who use multiple different distributions? For example :- I've got a couple of higher spec machines I use for gentoo- but I also run Xandros (Open Circulation Ed.) on this laptop (which is for family use) and I've got my mother running Libranet on her aging K6.

    I suppose technically speaking Xandros and Libranet are Debian based - but so is Linspire - Where does this leave me?

    Im in a twisted state of being neither here nor there help me ... please!!!!

    Nick ...

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  5. Re:Bar pickups got a lot more complex by djcapelis · · Score: 3, Interesting

    You sun sign is probably not what you think it is, the chart that most of the world uses contains only 12 signs and is 3000 years old.

    The actual chart includes all 13 signs and accounts for the slight wobble that causes the chart to shift by about 1 day every 87 years.

    Look up 13th sign on google for more information.

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