Best designed linux

[erikdude27]

Hi!

I'm on a hunt for a linux distro. I have been searching a lot, but i haven't found anything - and i would like to hear what you think. I want a really well designed linux, i do not like gray/grayish colors, i'm more on the dark color side. It could me minimalistic, but not REALLY graphic intense. I need it to be fast & secure as well. Please help me out finding one, i really need something new. Thanks a lot in advance!

Best regards,
Erik

 

[DComander1x]

Hi!

I'm on a hunt for a linux distro. I have been searching a lot, but i haven't found anything - and i would like to hear what you think. I want a really well designed linux, i do not like gray/grayish colors, i'm more on the dark color side. It could me minimalistic, but not REALLY graphic intense. I need it to be fast & secure as well. Please help me out finding one, i really need something new. Thanks a lot in advance!

Best regards,
Erik

Linux Mint is pretty good, especially with xfce, I use it and its super stable, fast and as secure as linux will get.
http://www.linuxmint.com/

 

[erikdude27]

Hi!

I'm on a hunt for a linux distro. I have been searching a lot, but i haven't found anything - and i would like to hear what you think. I want a really well designed linux, i do not like gray/grayish colors, i'm more on the dark color side. It could me minimalistic, but not REALLY graphic intense. I need it to be fast & secure as well. Please help me out finding one, i really need something new. Thanks a lot in advance!

Best regards,
Erik

Linux Mint is pretty good, especially with xfce, I use it and its super stable, fast and as secure as linux will get.
http://www.linuxmint.com/

Thanks for answer! Linux mint looks ideal, however the xfce looks like it get's a cartoonish interface, with these roundened buttons, it also looks like it has light grey colors. Correct me if i'm wrong

 

[Ijack]

There are several different colour schemes and styles of window decorations for xfce. It is very configurable; a nice, lightweight desktop environment.

 

[dmroeder]

Check out Mint KDE. It's default color is light gray but you can customize it however you like.

 

[erikdude27]

Thanks, I'll check out all of them & set them up how i want them

 

[Kewlx25]

Check out PC-BSD if you're not looking to do Steam gaming. The *BSD family is created by mostly sysadmins and engineers, so highly documented, great scaling, very stable.

 

[skittle]

BSD is cool to run as a project but sadly, for a number of reasons, it is underdeveloped compared to Linux.

 

[Ijack]

I have to disagree that BSD is in any way underdeveloped. It may lack some superficial gloss such as the Unity desktop and the like (and many would say it is all the better for that), but you can easily add such toys if you want to. In fact, the deep integration of ZFS puts it streets ahead of Linux in many ways.

I'd be interested to hear an expansion of your "number of reasons".

 

[skittle]

I have to disagree that BSD is in any way underdeveloped. It may lack some superficial gloss such as the Unity desktop and the like (and many would say it is all the better for that), but you can easily add such toys if you want to. In fact, the deep integration of ZFS puts it streets ahead of Linux in many ways.

I'd be interested to hear an expansion of your "number of reasons".

Linux kernel currently has ~1300 active contributing developers with large companies backing development process.
FreeBSD has ~200

IMO a large reason is BSD license. GPL protects copy-left philosophy while BSD gives zero protection. Company can come along borrow your work, make it non-free and not give credit for developer.

Here is report on latest (3.2-3.10) kernel development. Could not find similar for any BSD variant.
http://www.linuxfoundation.org/publications/linux-foundation/who-writes-linux-2013
Was not aware kernel had ~16million lines of code...

 

[Ijack]

I see a lot of numbers but no actual examples of how BSD suffer from underdevelopment. As for what the current status of development is, just look at the release notes. http://www.freebsd.org/releases/index.html

Of course, BSD has been going a lot longer than Linux which might explain why it takes less people to maintain and develop it. It is a very refined product.

But I would be seriously interested in concrete examples of how BSD is inferior to Linux.

 

[Kewlx25]

FreeBSD is used by PS4, Netflix, Cisco, Juniper, Verisign, Apple, in one way or another. It runs a huge portion of the Internet's infrastructure.

More BSD stuff: nginx, varnish, memcached, you know, all the big stuff used in Linux.

BSD license keeps your code as opensource, what it doesn't do is force other's to opensource their code.

 

[Ijack]

Don't forget Sun (now Oracle). They have fed some very important stuff into BSD, such as ZFS and DTrace, giving it capabilities that Linux still lacks. And, as you mention, a lot of work from Apple on OS X has also fed back.

Popularity contests don't always provide a good indication of the better product. (BetaMax vs. VHS or OS/2 vs. Windows anyone?).