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Do you run Linux? If so, which distro?
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 7:07 am
by Lyion
Fedora Core 3 on KDE here for my main desktop. I have a server running FreeBSD also.
I've tried Mandrake, SUSE, Gentoo and several other smaller distros, but I think Fedora Core seems the best overall distro.
I'm curious if anyone else runs non windoze systems.
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:21 am
by Diekan
I ran Redhat 6.0 for a while, and am using OS X on my iBook.
Redhat was pretty decent. I didn't care for the "work" needed to get it up and fully running though. Other than that it was decent.
Still working with OS X, so don't really have a solid opinion on it yet. However, thus far it seems pretty stable.
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 9:26 am
by Lyion
The funny thing is Linux, with all the advanced update tools, is extremely easy to get running. There also are a ton of external free applications for it. Many, many more than Windows.
The quirks are the biggest problem with installs, and they are getting fewer and fewer.
I just swapped my Gentoo distro for Fedora Core, and it took me a day to reinstall. Since I never blow away my /home filesystem everything is completely transportable.
Posted: Tue Mar 08, 2005 10:17 am
by Ogru
Fedora Core 3 for 3 RADIUS servers, and 3 custom billing sofware packages. 6 servers total.
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 11:51 am
by Parv
Used to run Slackware back in '97, then moved to Mandrake for a while. Run XP now for the games and specific software, but thiinking about getting an iBook for everyday work. If I ever get a spare computer I might set it up with Mandrake again and go from there.
--Parv
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 12:19 pm
by 10sun
My Linux box which hasn't been booted in 3 years now ran Caldera.
I think they are defunct now however.
-Adam
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 12:22 pm
by Darcler
Either Slackware 10.1 or Fedora Core 3 is on Gids comp. Hes looking for one that is very user friendly for me.
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 12:24 pm
by Tossica
I have a Slackware box, a RedHat box and a cute little "Damn Small Linux" cd for kicks. I rarely use any of them.
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 4:16 pm
by Tikker
I run my guilds forum, TS server, and eventually a webpage of some sort on a mandrake 10.1 install
It's on a crappy old 233 with 130ish mb ram~
I'm not a fan of linux in anyway, but it works better for this than a windows box atm
all my desktops are running some flavour of XP
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 4:24 pm
by Lyion
My Gentoo box had 400+ days uptime. That was with heavy usage.
I use my PC for more than gaming and surfing, so I'm a big fan of Linux.
I have my souped up XP Pro machine for gaming. Anything that isnt gaming I do on Linux. If I didnt game, I wouldnt even own a Windows machine.
Posted: Thu Mar 10, 2005 6:50 pm
by Harrison
I pray for the day linux outdoes windows for gaming...but it's a pipedream
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2005 10:03 am
by horendus
Slack back in the day, fedora is tits now tho. Very nice auto-update system, and have had very few problems with dependancies, unlike in the past when there were so many versions of different libs written by different people - good and bad, mostly just frustrating unless you really kept up on it all.
Posted: Fri Apr 01, 2005 12:46 pm
by Gidan
Currently running slackware 10.1. Have tried SuSE, Fedora and gentoo but keep going back to slackware. Slackware is just far easier to screw with and get things working the way I want them to from my experience.
Runs everything great, including WoW and Everquest. In some cases I run them beter under linux then I could under XP.