distros

Dating back to 1993, Debian is currently known as one of the most well-tested and bug-free distros available today.

This is one of the original distros, first pubbed back in the early '90s, with a long history of development.

Different distros have different ways to determine whether the root filesystem path is or is not inside a volume group.

We enjoyed trying it out, and found it much more user-friendly than most Linux distros.

You do not have to disqualify distros on the premises of being "too simple" or "dumbed down" simply because such propositions are untrue.

The links for the distros on the IBM page allow you to download versions built for Windows.

"It just goes to show that not all distros are alike, and that all code can be expected to contain bugs, " Hudson asserted.

It has the best of applications, distros and more that cannot compared to current available OS's.

Among all the major distros out there, Ubuntu has probably done the best job with hardware compatibility.

The EasyEclipse distros include the base Eclipse platform plus some commonly used and useful projects to make development easier.

Unlike in most Linux distros, OpenSSH won't automatically configure itself to run and just work.

If you can't get enough of distros with huge potential for customisation, it's well worth taking a look at Gentoo.

Some distros, like Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Server are designed primarily for companies that use Linux on servers.

Let's agree that the authoritative figure is 359, since that's the number of distros on the list maintained by DistroWatch. com.

It's also helpful, however, to have a basic understanding of how the major Linux distros differ.

I've tried tons of distros, but so far have stayed with Ubuntu as my main OS.

I searched and found several different distros offering live CD versions. I started trying them out one after another.

True, some distros are more distributed than others.

Ubuntu came up on my radar when I was giving new distros a try. Shortly after trying it I installed it permanently on my laptop.

Linuxtopia has a huge number of online manuals available for particular Linux distros, as we covered here.

Don't be afraid to experiment around with different distros, apps, window managers, anddesktops.

See Resources for links to these distros.

See our distro center for descriptions and more information about the most popular Linux distros.

The enterprise distro includes all the other distros, so download that one to save time.

I should've just said that there are way too many distros and left it at that.

Download folder for Linux distros can be set