Any Linux Users in here?

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]

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.

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?

Originally Posted by Jayneflakes

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.

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?

Should be already installed?
VLC Media player..

[SoulKiss]

Originally Posted by Jayneflakes

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.

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?

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.

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..............

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.