Any Linux Users in here?

[startrek.steve]

Im on Ubuntu Dapper main machine, but also run gutsy on my Sony Vaio, Hardy on test box and the two lads both run Hardy for the Eye candy!
Been running Ubuntu for nearly three years now...
(The wife still uses XP... HISS!)

Steve

[tigersaw]

My radar processing systems run linux, (red hat variant I think) they havn't missed a beat in years.
My laptop (if you can call it that) is a little E900 thing, runs some linux or other. Boots from cold to running firefox in under 20 seconds!

[SoulKiss]

Ditched XP @ Work and installed Hardy Desktop, have a Hardy Desktop & a Server @ home and my mailserver/dns/webserver @ home is Debian.

I also have 3 Zaurus PDA's running Linux.

Thats not counting the 2 dozen Linux servers I look after at work.

[Jayneflakes]

:D
My net accessing machine is on Ubuntu. However it is not wired up right now because the built in graphics chip is playing up and the screen has gone green. :smt086

I have a machine that I use only for entertainment, DivX Cartoons, music and the like. I would really like to run that with Linux, but I do not know enough about the OS to be able to run it as I would like.

Is there a Damn good media player out there for Ubuntu that can play DivX, WMA, MP3, Movies, DVD, and all of the other variants on this theme? :rolleyes:

[startrek.steve]

:D
My net accessing machine is on Ubuntu. However it is not wired up right now because the built in graphics chip is playing up and the screen has gone green. :smt086

I have a machine that I use only for entertainment, DivX Cartoons, music and the like. I would really like to run that with Linux, but I do not know enough about the OS to be able to run it as I would like.

Is there a Damn good media player out there for Ubuntu that can play DivX, WMA, MP3, Movies, DVD, and all of the other variants on this theme? :rolleyes:

Should be already installed?
VLC Media player..

[SoulKiss]

:D
My net accessing machine is on Ubuntu. However it is not wired up right now because the built in graphics chip is playing up and the screen has gone green. :smt086

I have a machine that I use only for entertainment, DivX Cartoons, music and the like. I would really like to run that with Linux, but I do not know enough about the OS to be able to run it as I would like.

Is there a Damn good media player out there for Ubuntu that can play DivX, WMA, MP3, Movies, DVD, and all of the other variants on this theme? :rolleyes:

VLC or MPlayer would do :)

And you can always shoe-horn the windows Codecs onto a Linux box :)

Mythbuntu may be the answer too - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mythbuntu

Oh, forgot to add, Mythbuntu can be run as a LiveCD distribution (meaning it doesnt install anything to your Hard Drive) so you can test it in a non-destructive way - just be aware that it will run slightly slower if it has to load programs from CD/DVD than from a Hard Disk.

[wyrdness]

I've run a variety of Linux systems at home over the last 10 years or more. I started off with quite an early version of Red Hat in the 1990's, and eventually ended up running Gentoo (a 'build it yourself' distribution). Now I just use Fedora, plus embedded Linux at work, and Mac OS X at home.

[timwilky]

Run Fedora on my develpment machines, a couple of VMs with SuSe to support on customer. RHEL on about 70 application/presentation servers.

[SoulKiss]

DeadRat-droppings and sUSEless Tim?

And there was me thinking you knew better..............

[chasey]

I have a duel boot laptop (Vista (ha) and Hardy). Also tried Linux Mint which has more eye candy than Ubuntu but I swtiched back to Hardy.

Multiple red hat servers at work and we also have a server running Hardy.

[startrek.steve]

I have a duel boot laptop (Vista (ha) and Hardy). Also tried Linux Mint which has more eye candy than Ubuntu but I swtiched back to Hardy.

Multiple red hat servers at work and we also have a server running Hardy.

vista? jeez living on the wild side...
do you ride a Ducati as well?

[chasey]

vista? jeez living on the wild side...
do you ride a Ducati as well?

I wish I rode a ducati! Only run vista because I had issues with Linux and my last router. Got a new router the other day but just got into the habit of running vista. Grr.

[timwilky]

DeadRat-droppings and sUSEless Tim?

And there was me thinking you knew better..............

Companies choice to run RHEL. not mine. I just need a reliable platform to run Tomcat, Oracle, and a java development environment. Fedora rings that bell.

As for the suse. I only have one customer running it. They haven't upgraded in years. Don't feel they need to etc. They use it as a postfix server and for a small tomcat hosted order processing system with a MySQL DB I did for them. Last time I looked they had not rebooted the server for over 3 years. So they are happy with reliability/stability

[SoulKiss]

Companies choice to run RHEL. not mine. I just need a reliable platform to run Tomcat, Oracle, and a java development environment. Fedora rings that bell.

As for the suse. I only have one customer running it. They haven't upgraded in years. Don't feel they need to etc. They use it as a postfix server and for a small tomcat hosted order processing system with a MySQL DB I did for them. Last time I looked they had not rebooted the server for over 3 years. So they are happy with reliability/stability

Yeah, I am stuck with SLES10 on the work boxes due to my boss being clueless.

When I say clueless, I mean that he read a book and decided that ALL servers should run the same OS regardless of whether its the best one for the job.

For example, deploying OpsView (a Nagios front-end). It is supported on just about EVERY distribution EXCEPT SLES/SUSE.

So rather than take 2 hours to get it up and running on a supported OS (they do their development on Debian/Ubunru) I have to fight with getting it to work with Novells ideas on how things should be installed.

Still I got it working, eventually.

[Sudoxe]

Who is this Lee Nux bloke then, and what does he do?

Yea, ok ive used linux for a long time. My first Linux CDs are from '96 and i had disk versions before that :cool:.

At work i use Linux on my desktop and RDP to a machine for when i need windows.

At home i use OSX because its a solid BSD system with a nice gui and it just works.

Dan

[SoulKiss]

At home i use OSX because its a solid BSD system with a nice gui and it just works.

Dan

That would be your "Oh shiney" magpie genes then..........

[Sudoxe]

That would be your "Oh shiney" magpie genes then..........

Nope, i just prefer a BSD base to be honest. If X on top of FreeBSD wasn’t such an **** for home use I would use that.

I was at BSDCon several years ago and was sat with Jordan Hubbard who explained how Apple/Darwin was derived from and tracked FreeBSD sources. It convinced me that apple were doing it right (on the base anyway, tracking FreeBSD). Which is why we have ZFS (because its in FreeBSD-current, never mind the licensing issue for linux, eh):lol:


Dan

[MiniMac]

Run Hardy Heron on a dual boot with XP

[ooger]

I'm running Hardy at home but had a b*tch of a time getting it stable with the ATI drivers, even using Envy.

I'm now using backports and proposed repo's but it seems* ok

(I shouldnt have said that)