Which OS?
Posted by Quinn at August 22nd, 2006 10:40pm under OpenSource 0 Comments Permalink
I am in the middle of setting up Gentoo on my PC laptop. It was taking over 6 hours compiling gnome. Oh man, this is looong. I've been using FreeBSD for my servers ( including this blog ). While FreeBSD isn't so good for desktop use, in my opinion, I thought Gentoo would be good for many uses, like desktop client, developer, server, etc.. Anyways, I made a list of open source OSes that I should give a try and some already gave a try. I wonder if anyone can tell me which one is for what and so.
I am very happy with FreeBSD as my server use. Debian is easy to use and fairly good in many way. Somehow, I don't like much of Fedra Core. I think it's good using SELinux as default and binary packages are mostly in good shape. I think it's probably too easy to use. ( Is this a compliment, a complaint or what? ) I am going to have fun to try them all!
- PC-BSD
- FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org
- NetBSD http://www.netbsd.org
- OpenBSD http://www.openbsd.org
- DragonFlyBSD http://www.dragonflybsd.org
- Linux
- Debian http://www.debian.org
- Fedra Core http://fedora.redhat.com
- Slackware http://www.slackware.com
- Gentoo http://www.gentoo.org
- openSUSE http://en.opensuse.org
- Ubuntu http://www.ubuntu.com
- UNIX
- OpenSolaris http://www.opensolaris.org
- Japanese Distro
- Vine Linux http://www.vinelinux.org
- Plamo Linux http://www.linet.gr.jp/~kojima/Plamo/
- TOMOYO Linux http://tomoyo.sourceforge.jp
