how much do you customize?
Ricardo Anguiano
everyone's Linux usage is here. Web
developers, application developers,
sysadmins, and desktop users. The
accessibility angle is especially
interesting. I didn't know there was a
magnifying utility, though I can't say
I've experimented much with the newer
Linux desktops.
Professionally, I maintain a set of
Linux servers for build and test
infrastructure, as well as more
traditional infrastructure like email
and web. I also maintain an odd
assortment of embedded systems for
testing. After work, I do very little
with Linux that seems too much like
work.
I no longer work on customizing every
aspect of my personal Linux systems. It
happens naturally over time, sure, but I
start with what comes out-of-the-box and
mostly stick with that. My days of
tweaking my X config mode lines, trying
to get sound to do the right thing,
customizing my window manager rc file or
wrestling with video or wireless
networking drivers are long gone. I
either run Linux in a virtual machine or
on a headless system with no video, or
sound to reduce the hassle.
Despite these gripes, I am still a big
fan. Linux is my workhorse. The parts
of Linux that work well are that way
because people kept working out the
kinks. Maybe I'll go back to a personal
Linux desktop after more kinks are
worked out there as well.
I've been using Linux since 1993 and I
don't see myself stopping anytime soon,
even with the addition of a personal
Mac. :-)
-R
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Brian Lavender
a graduate class at Sac State. We are using SML as a META language
to describe a language called graal. It's pretty cool, but unlike
anything I have done before. The cool thing about computer science
is its combination of language theory and mathematics. It's like Von
Neuman , Turing, and Noam Chomsky merged into one. :) Funny thing is
I studied spanish for three semesters and then I followed some of the
politics with Noam Chomsky and latin America. I see GNU/Linux taking a
strong foothold in Latin America. I went to Cuba and discovered they're
big into Debian. I also changed my lang variable to spanish, and now my
messages come up in spanish.
LANG=es_US.UTF-8
I just find it fascinating how I can flip my OS to a foreign language by
changing one variable. I use my GNU/Linux box for continual discovery.
I also like the way ubuntu will tell you which package to install if you
type a command for a package that doesn't exist. Is that sweet or what?
I also signed up for Google Summer of Code.
brian
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