Flavour of the week?
Philip Herron
What is your current OS of choice, just be nice to see a poll across
board of who uses what and maby why would be a nice thing to see.
Well me it has to be Ubuntu. I used knoppix for years and a little
debian then moved to ubuntu when it came out because i always prefered
debian and knoppix used to be debian just KDE. But i prefer ubuntu now
because its the best desktop and i want to support canconical as much
as they can as they have the most likely chance to take desktop by
storm in my view.
I dip in and out of bsd (bas just takes to long to get going the way
you want :P ) now and again but ubuntu is for me :)
Stuart Hacking
Marty Pauley
I have many reasons, but in this context I'll mention only one: it
doesn't encourage me to use a particular desktop; it just provides
enough options for me to choose my own, and doesn't mind if my choice
is "none of the above".
--
Marty
Patrick Magill
Philip Herron
Yeah i think thats the best thing about debian you have much more
control over your OS than say you do with SUSE or Redhat distros.
2009/2/11 Marty Pauley <marty....@gmail.com>:
Patrick Dempster
Lee Braiden
*BSDs, OS X, the unspeakable, and less usual stuff like Haiku. Some
of those, I actually prefer in some ways --- or maybe I should just
say that Linux bugs me in a few ways :) --- but I guess Linux still
gives me the best trade-off between power and flexibility. Gotta
agree with Marty and Philip about Debian's strength in that area.
Sometimes I'd prefer more flexibility, and sometimes less, but I've
kept coming back to debian (and variants) for almost a decade and a
half, while I can only stand the others for two or three weeks,
despite being open to change. So it's definitely doing something
right.
Anyway, thankfully opensource VM solutions (especially now that
they're starting to get 3D) and multicore/VT processors, are starting
to make this much less of an issue. If I need to use another OS, or
even a few, I can just run them together.
Thorsten Brabetz
> Hey guys
>
> What is your current OS of choice, just be nice to see a poll across
> board of who uses what and maby why would be a nice thing to see.
Would be KUbuntu, with Debian a close second... :o)
Jonathan McDowell
> Debian.
Debian++
(All of etch, lenny and sid depending on the situation.)
J.
Andrew Wilson
it's running Debian. I also have a virtual Debian machine running
on my XP Desktop. This has mostly replaced the Cygwin usage
on this machine. I tried Ubuntu in a virtual machine and didn't
like it.
andrew
2009/2/11 Jonathan McDowell <noo...@earth.li>:
Jonathan Mayne
with Fedora on my desktop but sadly it didn't work out. Think I'm just
one of those guys that believes things shouldn't be needlessly
difficult. Fedora wasn't unbearable or anything, it just took a bit of
thinking and I couldn't be bothered. I got to thinking if it ain't
broke don't fix it. I use debian on the server because it's stable and
fast. Not much else to it really. The long release cycles drive me
crazy but we had this discussion at the last meeting and that coupled
with my profound lack of understanding of the C language just opened a
can of worms. I said it then and I'll say it now, at this stage in my
life there's just no point in learning C. I'll settle for being less of
a man. Oh, I also use Xandros on my Eee but it's there by default.
Nice little distro on the Eee too.
Jonny.
Dan
It goes something like this
Servers - Debian (Ubuntu when silly things like Adaptec SCSI cards
don't play nice)
Work Desktop - Kubuntu (Intrepid Ibex) with a variety of Windows VMs
running inside VirtualBox (some stuff just needs windows especially in
my current corporate environment
Home - 2 Macbook's + Macbook Pro running OS X Leopard
Media - Server running debian living in my attic serving a PPC mac
mini running Leopard + FrontRow in my living room
I decided when I changed jobs to make a stand for open source and free
software, and thankfully have got the backing of my manager, who said
(paraphrasing here) "I don't give two fscks what you use, just do your
job"
Ahh little by little I am eroding the MS shop in here, we're running
Squid Subversion and Nagios now!
All that MS Software makes me nervous.
- D
Anthony Clearn
it replace with gnewsense-kde shortly), shr on freerunner (hope to try
debian soon), I like puppy on old hardware, it's simple and works. xp
at work. I want to try pure:dyne at some stage, i tried musix briefly.
I briefly looked at the kuki website as asda were selling an acer
aspire one, XFCE looks interesting.
Connell
i've come across. I recently tried opensuse 11.1 and hated it. Any OS
that hides access to the terminal behind a password protected control
panel is a load of crap imo.
On my desktop I use archlinux. it's a lot of fun to mess around with
and set up.
Why do people like KDE??? gnome/xfce ftw
On Feb 11, 10:27 am, Philip Herron <herron.phi...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
Philip Herron
you jsut want to fire on a distro and have all you need!
All i need to do is apt-get install irssi mplayer build-essential
emacs22-gtk audacious and i am pretty happy with it all thunderbird
firefox pidgin etc.
Arch is nice but i still just like to stick with debian/ubuntu on a
desktop just prefer just being up and running quicker and debian gives
a little more control as does ubuntu.
SUSE i used to love used it for 6 months last year. But yast just
annoyed the absolute crap out of me! I mean it has to be one of the
worst package managers ever! I mean it just breaks like you want to
install anything it just fires you back depandany errors and it just
gets frustrating! but most main things its ok but i just cant get
used to yast i like yast.. except it as a package manager actualy
wait.. i dont like yast!
Its a good idea for idiot sys admins though.
2009/2/13 Connell <cmcg...@gmail.com>:
Colin Turner
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Debian for me, on around a dozen boxes I guess. Stable on our production
web servers, testing on everything else except my desktop running unstable.
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Steven Wilkin
running headless and either OS X on my desktop or Ubuntu if I'm on a
PC.
Steve
On Feb 11, 3:27 pm, Philip Herron <herron.phi...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
Lee Braiden
> Why do people like KDE??? gnome/xfce ftw
There was a time (between 3.4 right up to the end of the 3.x series),
where KDE was a very professional, very solid, very flexible desktop.
Back when I chose it, I'd been mostly using GNOME, or some combo of
GNOME and e16. They were always trying to do cool things, like having
big shiny nautilus icons that took forever to display, when things
like drag and drop and remote files over SSH weren't widely
implemented yet. KDE on the other hand, was very well implemented,
sharing a lot of code --- largely thanks to its well designed C++
object oriented core, I suspect. Back then, I heard one slogan that
summed this up: "KDE: the desktop for grown-ups who need to get work
done." Unfortunately that's far from the case now, and KDE4 is more
like enlightenment, while GNOME has become the serious desktop, even
though it still doesn't do some basic things like drag and drop the
way I'd like.
--
Lee
Dan
but 4.1 (or is it 4.2) is a big improvement. I'm still not sure about
not having things on the desktop BUT it does help keep me organised
and can show off my National Geographic wallpaper collection.
On Feb 13, 12:17 pm, Lee Braiden <le...@digitalunleashed.com> wrote:
> 2009/2/13 Connell <cmcgin...@gmail.com>:
Philip Herron
http://gtkevemon.battleclinic.com/
Bit easier ! :D
2009/2/13 Ryan Grieve <gri...@thegrieve.co.uk>:
Ryan Grieve
plans :( and the time I spend not playing eve is usually spent crying
that I'm still 2 months of skills way from a Heavy Assault ship :(
Do you play Phil?
Philip Herron
Yeah i play a decent bit but not recently been too tired! :(
But i play on weekends. Funy thing recently they stopped linux support
but i found running eve online windows nice gfx client works better in
default in wine than the official linux client
Sure maby we could play on the weekend? :D Its a great game but it
takes some time i guess! :P i dont have that many assets atm but i'll
build it back up soon :D
Ryan Grieve
because very few people are using it. I'm guessing this is because every
eve player I know (including myself... and you!) run the premium gfx
client on wine or a derivative (CrossOver Games here, since they gave it
away free not too long ago).
I'll have to get your character name and catch up in-game at some point,
my chars Kiithilurin.