Couple of Linux questions

[Ian Osborne]

I've a couple of questions regarding Linux:

Firstly, has there been any major new releases this year, preferably new distros, but substantial revisions of existing ones will do.

Secondly, what are your favourite excellent-but-obscure Linux distros, and why do you like them? I'm enjoying Ubuntu, but am interested to learn about distributions which don't grab the headlines.

 

[strathmeyer]

Not all distros have revisions; I've never even really understood what a distro revision is. It's the packages that get updated.

 

[tsg]

Slackware 12.0 came out in July.

I prefer Slackware mostly because it doesn't get in its own way. It requires you to understand what's happening on a fairly fundamental level, but will let you do whatever to tell it to do.

 

[phaed]

I've been using Ubuntu as my exclusive operating system since May of 2005 and it has worked great. Very few problems. I just upgraded to 7.10 beta.

I also think that Linux + Firefox + the NoScript extension are about the safest Internet experience you can have.

 

[logical muse]

I have kubuntu on my laptop, and debian on my desktop machine.

Oh Linux how I love you so!




eta: I keep a copy of knoppix handy for fixing other machines