Any Linux Users in here?

Originally Posted by 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.

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

Originally Posted by startrek.steve

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]

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

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]

Originally Posted by timwilky

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.

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 .

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]

Originally Posted by Sudoxe

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..........

Originally Posted by SoulKiss

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)


Dan

[MiniMac]

Run Hardy Heron on a dual boot with XP

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)