A Tinkerers Top 5 Distributions of 2010

“In the last few days we’ve had several posts about personal top
5 favorite distributions of 2010. Everybody has their own
favorites, but, for what it’s worth, here’s my list.

“Arch / Archbang

“Because: Personally, it’s my discovery of the year. Arch Linux
can be anything you like, seems solid so far and is immensely well
documented. It can be as rolling as you want or one can exclude
packages and whole groups from upgrading if you need something more
stable for a particular purpose. An LTS kernel is also available if
you’ld rather have on your server or want to be sure to avoid
having to recompile modules for Virtualbox, wifi etc. every few
weeks (it’s actually far less than that). Everything is easy to
configure by editing simple text files, and without unpleasant
surprises where some tool is overriding my edits or them just not
feeding through for some reason.”

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