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 Apr 4 2005, 07:01 PM
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 Its GNU/Linuxhelp.net  Group: Support Specialist Posts: 1,280 Joined: 19-November 03 From: University of Minnesota- TC Member No.: 1,828  |
I am wondering what people run on thier personal home machines for doing things like e-mail, web surfing, chat, ect... I know a lot of you use linux for servers and database and all that jazz, which its great for, but I wonder what people use for their primary workstations.
-------------------- --Jim Lester
jim@linuxhelp.net Distro: Gentoo System: AMD Athlon 3000+ XP 2.166 GHz NVIDIA nForce2 IGP Chipset 1GB 333 MHz DDR SDRAM NVIDIA nForce2 Dual Head 64 MB Graphics Server Distro: CentOS |
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Apr 5 2005, 11:06 AM
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 Its GNU/Linuxhelp.net Group: Support Specialist Posts: 1,284 Joined: 14-November 04 From: Southampton, Hampshire Member No.: 4,165 |
Linux of course...
Gentoo for a server, Mandrake for a desktop. D -------------------- |
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Apr 5 2005, 03:45 PM
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Its GNU/Linuxhelp.net Group: Support Specialist Posts: 1,628 Joined: 23-January 03 Member No.: 360 |
I'm mixed. My server at the moment runs trustix, For a desktops I run W98, W2k and Mandrake.
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Apr 6 2005, 05:44 AM
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 Its GNU/Linuxhelp.net Group: Admin Posts: 1,254 Joined: 21-September 02 From: St John's, Newfoundland, Canada Member No.: 3 |
Gentoo linux for email, web surf, chat, music, etc.
Windows for games like Counter Strike: Source and Diablo II. Servers are using Debian 3.1 (Sarge) -------------------- Corey Quilliam
(former) Linuxhelp.ca Administrator cquilliam-AT-gmail-dot-com Want to help out Linuxhelp.net? Check out our Linuxhelp Wiki and see if there are some articles you would like to submit!! -- Ubuntu 8.04 64-bit - Work Laptop (HP-Compaq NC6400 Core2) Kubuntu 8.04 64-bit - Desktop (HP m8120n QuadCore) Ubuntu 6.04 - Server (I'm not upgrading this baby until support runs out in 2012) (Some old POS dell) |
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Apr 15 2005, 11:07 AM
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 ./configure Group: Members Posts: 104 Joined: 8-April 05 From: St John's Newfoundland Member No.: 4,844 |
Ture Slackware 10.1 User, I've tried all the new Red Hat distros along with Suse and Mandrake and always end up back to slack. Fars im concerned theres nothing that I cant do in slack that I can do in any other Distro.
-------------------- INTEL Q6600 Quad Core @2.8
Evga Geforce 8800GT SSC Ed 512 ASUS P5N32-E SLI Deluxe 4G DDR2 - 1 750 Gig HDS Distro - Slackware-Current / KDE4 / Window Xp MC --------------------------------------- Distro - Slackware 12 MythTV Box AMD Athlon 64 3500+ 1024 Megs of DDR400 200G HD Nvidia 8400 GT Leadtech Winfast TV2000 Tuner Antec NSK2480 Media Center Case -------------------------------------- Linux User #384299 |
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May 7 2005, 07:00 AM
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 I Eat C Code for Breakfast Group: Members Posts: 276 Joined: 9-November 04 From: Canada Ontario Member No.: 4,136 |
I think the first linux you try is the one you stick with personally. I tried Suse 8.2 pro for my first desktop and to this day I've tried more linux distro's then I can count but I still go back to the tried and true suse. I also run windows XP sp2 for all the games and apps I don't want to find the linux version of. it's just easier
-------------------- Gentoo ROCKS!!!!! Go and emerge the world
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May 13 2005, 07:29 PM
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 LinuxHelp Admin Group: Admin Posts: 1,096 Joined: 18-September 02 Member No.: 1 |
OS X
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Jul 31 2005, 02:12 PM
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 RMS is my Hero Group: Support Specialist Posts: 782 Joined: 6-October 02 From: Trichy,INDIA Member No.: 29 |
Well that proves , we love pretending.
-------------------- Hemant Kumar
 hemant@linuxhelp.net |
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Jul 31 2005, 08:51 PM
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 RMS is my Hero Group: Support Specialist Posts: 862 Joined: 18-February 04 From: Wisconsin Member No.: 2,404 |
Windows XP. There's no reason for me to use linux as a workstation, for as long as I'm playing games on it. Dual booting would be pointless.
-------------------- *Points finger at the author above him* They're a witch! Burn them!
--- Vist my website! Join me in IRC! Server: st0rage.org Channel: #UnhandledExceptions |
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Jun 19 2006, 12:13 AM
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./configure Group: Support Specialist Posts: 84 Joined: 18-June 06 Member No.: 6,568 |
for me its Linux..
I use windows only for writing some Turbo C graphics code (for college labs ) and writng 8086 programs again for college courses and testing some software 
-------------------- -- a *certified* n00b
"The best is Yet to come !" My Desktop : OpenSuSE 10.1 | FVWM-Crystal | MPD | Gaim | Opera | Mrxvt |
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Jun 25 2006, 09:19 PM
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Grub-er Group: Members Posts: 32 Joined: 21-February 04 Member No.: 2,431 |
Slackware. I've tried redhat in the past, and even though a lot of people don't believe me, it ran SLOW. I also didn't like the way it tried to do configurations for me (setting you to runlevel 4 before you even get to test X... bah)
Slackware ran like a dream for me. I started out by trying zipslack. I was interested in slackware because I had heard it was more complicated than other distros when I first started using linux a couple years back. I then found it was not complicated to use at all. It's nice and stable, runs well on both the systems I've installed it on, and contrary to popular belief, I find it an excellent desktop OS if you don't mind doing all the configurations yourself. |
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