Your favourite distro

Zed · 12-10-2012, 11:57 AM

What's your favourite distro and why? Sub-distros count, so that's all good (e.g. Ubuntu is Ubuntu, not just Debian.)

I'm a big fan of Crunchbang at the moment; running Waldorf (which is based off of Debian Wheezy, Testing), and it's gorgeous.
It's still incredibly stable, and customizable to boot. I made my own tint2 theme since I didn't like the others.
My only irks are that my fucking NVIDIA drivers didn't install 32bit OpenGL libraries, so I'm unable to play games which need OpenGL via Wine. Cocks.

Zealotry · 12-10-2012, 12:06 PM

I definitely favor Backtrack 5 R1. It's very nice, fast, useful, jam packed, and has the choice between GNOME and KDE interfaces.

Zed · 12-12-2012, 02:47 PM

(12-10-2012, 12:06 PM)Zealotry Wrote: I definitely favor Backtrack 5 R1. It's very nice, fast, useful, jam packed, and has the choice between GNOME and KDE interfaces.

If you're using Backtrack in a serious sense (that is, it's your standard distro), you're using it incorrectly. It's made to be run in a live session, not installed.
If you want GNOME/KDE/other, you could take a look at a minimal Debian install (which Backtrack is based on, since Backtrack > Ubuntu > Debian), or you could go for the *ubuntu flavours, such as Lubuntu with LXDE, Kubuntu with KDE and Xubuntu with XFCD (I think it's XFCD atleast).

Zealotry · 12-12-2012, 03:18 PM

(12-12-2012, 02:47 PM)Zed Wrote:
(12-10-2012, 12:06 PM)Zealotry Wrote: I definitely favor Backtrack 5 R1. It's very nice, fast, useful, jam packed, and has the choice between GNOME and KDE interfaces.

If you're using Backtrack in a serious sense (that is, it's your standard distro), you're using it incorrectly. It's made to be run in a live session, not installed.
If you want GNOME/KDE/other, you could take a look at a minimal Debian install (which Backtrack is based on, since Backtrack > Ubuntu > Debian), or you could go for the *ubuntu flavours, such as Lubuntu with LXDE, Kubuntu with KDE and Xubuntu with XFCD (I think it's XFCD atleast).

I use it for pentesting alone. I used to do a LOT of pentesting.