Comments on: 3 Books Giveaway: Hacking Vim, Lighttpd and Xen Virtualization

By: Ioniarimalala RAKOTONIRINA

Ioniarimalala RAKOTONIRINA — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 13:40:59 +0000

* What is your favorite Linux distribution AND Why is that your favorite linux distro?
Ubuntu, because they can send the source CD freely.
* What is your favorite Text Editor on Linux AND Why is that your favorite editor?
VI, because it’s included by default in the install package of every distro.

By: Ameno

Ameno — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 05:16:07 +0000

Debian do whatever you want to do with !
vi do same things, only if you know howto

By: Top 5 Best Linux Text Editors

Top 5 Best Linux Text Editors — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 15:04:19 +0000

[...] 101 Hacks. Get your copy now. As part of the contest that was conducted a while back, I got around 200 responses from the geeky readers who choose their favorite Linux text editor. Based on this data, the [...]

By: Tarun

Tarun — Sun, 28 Jun 2009 19:46:20 +0000

Ubuntu- its simple and easy to work with.
vim-just because of its features and openwideness.

By: BOYPT

BOYPT — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 17:41:25 +0000

Arch Linux – for it’s flexible of course｀

and

vim – i use gvim a lot when coding. though i’m not fully practised with vim skills, i do love powerful vim. I’m thirst to know what’s about in Hacking vim, aha..

I read 101 Hacks before and found that it’s quite a useful book, espacilly for newbies like me , ah

By: Top 5 Best Linux OS Distributions

Top 5 Best Linux OS Distributions — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 15:03:21 +0000

[...] 101 Hacks. Get your copy now. As part of the contest that was conducted a while back, I got around 200 responses from the geeky readers who choose their favorite Linux distributions. Based on this data, the [...]

By: 3 Books Giveaway Winners: Hacking Vim, Lighttpd and Xen Virtualization

3 Books Giveaway Winners: Hacking Vim, Lighttpd and Xen Virtualization — Thu, 28 May 2009 04:30:17 +0000

[...] happy to announce the winners of the 3 books giveaway contest. that was conducted on behalf of 1st Birthday of the blog. Following three winners are randomly [...]

By: rick jackson

rick jackson — Wed, 27 May 2009 15:34:36 +0000

debian – it has distros for every processor you can imagine and few that I didn’t know existed
vi – it is always there and very powerful – command line (non gui) is very important when you are working on slow connections

By: treuss

treuss — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:02:59 +0000

Favourite Linux distro: Debian
Why? Debian is stable, free and uses apt

Favorite Text Editor on Linux: vim
While you are using vim you are getting faster and faster

By: ku

ku — Wed, 27 May 2009 02:41:49 +0000

My favourite “distro” (actually such distros are called meta-distros) is Arch Linux. Why?
Because it gives you full freedom to do what you want. There is no bloated “all you (don’t) need” pre-installed software, you just choose what you need. And there are no outdating distro (repositary) versions, the software is always bleeding-edge. You have to set everything up yourself, which is pretty straightforward with the installation handbook and there are lots of howtos in the internet. I also love BSD-style init and the great rc.conf file. No more thinking of different runlevels and searching for many little configuration files for basic system settings – you just configure your system in one file and tell there what modules or daemons you need to start with the system. It’s way easier to set up an Arch system than to change Debian’s or Ubuntu’s settings if you don’t have much experience with Linux at all.
But the really best thing about Arch is it’s freedom to choose how you install your software. You can install binary packages with (in my opinion best default package manager) pacman or build everything with the great FreeBSD-ports-like ABS system. There is also a “user-maintained” AUR system – if something is missing in the default repositories, you can just create a build script and upload it to the AUR page. Now everybody can use that script to install that software. And there is the package manager yaourt – it uses pacman for binary packages and it uses AUR as well – it will download the build script, let you oversee and change it (it will show you all the comments other users can leave on the AUR page to all the packages as well, like pointing out mistakes in the script or telling you if the script can be malicious), it will install or build from AUR all the dependancies and build the needed package.
So after all, Arch is just the perfect distro, which gives you all the freedom Open Source Software should have.