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What's your favorite linux?

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what version of linux do you use?
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Gentoo, obviously.
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game! linux

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we should make a game! distro
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That connects to the Internet, and opens Konqueror to http://wittyrpg.com on boot?
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something smaller. I wonder what the lightest browser game! works in.
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Depends on your definition of works. For 100% working it'd need Javascript and images, which cuts out quite a few browsers. Game! works more or less completely on the Wii, though text input is a bit awkward, but that's a platform limitation. It apparently also works well on (some) Blackberries, though I haven't seen that in person.

Konqueror is pretty lightweight, though. Much much lighter weight than Firefox, at least.
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if kde isn't installed is it still lighter than firefox. never checked. figured something like fluxbox for a desktop
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Konqueror is like... an order of magnitude lighter than Firefox (at least as far as the size of the codebase goes). I don't think tossing in kdelibs will make much of a difference.
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Ubuntu

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I feel this might be an unpopular choice for REAL linux users, but I prefer Ubuntu. Feel free to mock me.
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Ubuntu is good, but it always seems pretty unstable to me, at least in comparison to most other distros. Perhaps it's just Kubuntu, but I think Canonical is spreading themselves a bit too thin.
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i'm using ubuntu simply because it was easy. it recognized all my hardware and only had a few basic apps. I have found it to be a bit unstable though at times.
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Gentoo. I've been using it exclusively for so long I suck at using anything else. I'm seriously going to get a gentoo tattoo when I go to prison ;).
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Gentoo rules, i am using it for 2 years now...
I have tried Suse, Fedora, Ubuntu etc, but I think I will always keep using Gentoo.
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Me too gentoo :)

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I wonder why Gentoo users are so much over-represented here...

BTW, I have been using Linux since around 1994. I've been through Slackware, RedHat, SuSE, my-own-non-distribution (most of the time), but I have also been a Gentoo user for the last 3-4 years.
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Wally wrote:I wonder why Gentoo users are so much over-represented here...

BTW, I have been using Linux since around 1994. I've been through Slackware, RedHat, SuSE, my-own-non-distribution (most of the time), but I have also been a Gentoo user for the last 3-4 years.
What's also interesting is that (based on the Apache logs) despite there being more Ubuntu users than Gentoo users (slightly, about a 4:3 ratio), the Gentoo users are the overwhelming majority in this thread. I won't comment on the reason for that (because I don't know for sure), but I have my suspicions.
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