Any Linux Knifers out there?

spikedog

spikedog

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I've been using Debian GNULinux on three home Networked PC's for about three years now. The Server and the Desktop get rebooted about every three months ---- regardless of software upgrades. I just wonder if any of you have found the alternative to M$?

SD
 
I've been using Linux continuously since you had to download 1.4MB floppies images to install it (The 0.97 kernel, 1992). These days, it's mostly used for servers.
 
Been running Ubuntu 6.10 for a month now. Managed to crash it trying to get 3d vid on my laptop (later found out there isn't 3d support for the ati radeon mobility 7500 :rolleyes:).

Took some getting used to after 18yrs of macrosucks winblows and dos, but I'm slowly figuring out the command line. Still having some problems, but it's better than winblows.

Went through "Ubuntu Unleashed" (Sams) in a little over a week, went to "Moving to Ubuntu Linux" (Addison Wesley) and polished it off in 4 days... going through Unleashed again and it makes much more sense when I have a clue what I'm doing.


Had used Knoppix and Dyne:bolic live cd's for years as a winblows recovery system... just find an uncorrupted file on another computer, pop it on a floppy and move it with linux, boot back to a working winblows.
 
Used it since 1997, Unix before that. I've never figured out what the M$ fuss was all about, I tried dos/windows a few times, but couldn't believe how poorly it worked.
 
As posted in my Ubuntu thread , just started using Ubuntu 6.06, I'm only playing with it for now but it may grow on me.

I just installed the java pluggin for Firefox using EasyUbuntu, Now if I can get codecs to install so that I can see MPG and AVI, get QTParted to run and make a Fat partition, get XSane to see my parallel port scanner... still much to learn and figure out.

Luis
 
I had an old laptop with a pentuim2 and celaron proccesor that I had my friend remove the hatefull windows 95 and put on Puppy linux. The difference was amazing it made it really good for even websurfing everything but movies.
Large couler photos were really snappy and it was so easy to use. The only problem I had was it was my first computer and all the linux tutorials assumed you had switched from windows and explained how it was different. I started with linux so had some problems. After I bought my new computer I gave it to my sister and she removed it and put on windows even though I begged her not to.
 
i mostly use it for server stuff, i think it still has way to go on M$ for desktop stuff, especially for the general public that just wants things to work and not have tinker with stuff on a regular basis

this is coming from an RHCE ;)

for 95% of stuff i prefer OS X to Windows though
 
I started using Unix at graduate school in 1976 and continued until I retired from the company that invented it.

Been using Red Hat and Fedora Core Linux since about 2001. Tried Ubuntu, too.

I use Windows once a year -- to run tax software.
 
Fedora Core 4 & Mac (Darwin UNIX) at home here. AIX UNIX at work. Check your crontab for reboot command insert maybe?
 
Damn small linux for me, I like it, I just cannot get the wireless card to work on my toughbook CF 27

Oddball wireless router meets oddball wireless card on command line linux......

Ubuntu is next for me as well, I think it has the best chance of seriously rivaling M$...
 
Fedora Core 6 (Laptop) and Ubuntu 6.06 (Server). I've been thinking about switching to OpenBSD for the server, but I'll have to see what it's like to setup sotware RAID.

I also use Backtrack, which is the most complete aggregation of network security tools I have happened to encounter. Lots of fun on the campus network. ;)
 
My desktop/server was running elive for a few years, about a month ago I switched to ubuntu. I have xp sp2 on my laptop to connect to our company's citrix client, however we're switching to a web based java database so I will be kicking the window's virus early in the second quarter this year.
 
I've been running Linux on and off for years now. Fairly recently I purged my network of Windows machines. Nothing but Debian and whatever I feel like messing around with on my test machine.
 
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