Linux/UNIX users check in

[hammondb3klingon1]

If you use Linux or UNIX on your home system, sound of. Flavour, What you like/dislike, do you develop software for one or both platforms?, are you a user, power user, or super user? Favourite utils ?? etc...

Me
2 vista boxes - Windoze - Outside the topic of this thread
2 linux boxes - SUSE , Debian
1 UNIX box - SOLARIS(Open Solaris -> Belinix)

Favorites.
Suse for ease of use for browsing ...
Debian for better utils(Suse may have the utils but I just have not used them)
Belinix - SWEEEEETTTTT!!!

I develop software sometimes. Primarily for embedded linux

Favorite utils GCC of course :):drawguns :beatdeadhorse

Language : asm, c++, c#(mono)

No php or anything like that. I leave that to the smart people.

[BoredOutOfMyMind]

Klingy,

I have a full Edgy-Eft Kubuntu 6.10 box here.

I have Swiftfox and use Kaffiene for Media.

MrsBoomm runs an XP Box.

There are 4 others who know Linux here.

The board runs on Cent-OS with Apache web.

:boomm

[hammondb3klingon1]

ooo centos. Red Hat that's ... FREE!:) Cool how are you liking Kubuntu ? Never touched it.

[BoredOutOfMyMind]

ooo centos. Red Hat that's ... FREE!:) Cool how are you liking Kubuntu ? Never touched it.

I am running a six year old Dell Dimension 4100 that I have stepped up to 512 MB ram and added 200 Gig drive. This year I installed GeForce 6200 LE so I could use Beryl Desktop and Google Earth. Later this year I want a bare bones to move the DVD drives, HD, vid card and use my 20 in crt.

[John Atkinson]

I run CentOS on 3 web servers and fedora on a fourth.

I have a Kubuntu run-time CD that someone gave me but haven't tried it yet. I may set up a dual boot system with kubuntu just to play with it.

[BoredOutOfMyMind]

I run CentOS on 3 web servers and fedora on a fourth.

I have a Kubuntu run-time CD that someone gave me but haven't tried it yet. I may set up a dual boot system with kubuntu just to play with it.

The next version 07.04 is about done.

[John Atkinson]

I have been looking at ubuntu/beryl

I am thinking the dual boot thing is going to happen.

[BoredOutOfMyMind]

I have been looking at ubuntu/beryl

I am thinking the dual boot thing is going to happen.

I have Beryl,

but the default in the next ubuntu will be Compiz

:sad

[John Atkinson]

I used the mandrake distro on a desktop for awhile, but I am guessing mandrake is dead?

It has been a few years since I have done a linux desktop with KDE or gnome.

Anyone here remember X? Now those were the days!

These days I just use the old command line...

[hammondb3klingon1]

I used the mandrake distro on a desktop for awhile, but I am guessing mandrake is dead?

It has been a few years since I have done a linux desktop with KDE or gnome.

Anyone here remember X? Now those were the days!

These days I just use the old command line...

Madrake is dead but has been resurrected in the form of mandriva. Not too bad of a distro. X is still around and is still the basis of most of the desktops. In order for KDE or any other desktop to run, the xserver is usually active. As for the command line, is there any other way? :):highfive

[Praxeas]

If you use Linux or UNIX on your home system, sound of. Flavour, What you like/dislike, do you develop software for one or both platforms?, are you a user, power user, or super user? Favourite utils ?? etc...

Me
2 vista boxes - Windoze - Outside the topic of this thread
2 linux boxes - SUSE , Debian
1 UNIX box - SOLARIS(Open Solaris -> Belinix)

Favorites.
Suse for ease of use for browsing ...
Debian for better utils(Suse may have the utils but I just have not used them)
Belinix - SWEEEEETTTTT!!!

I develop software sometimes. Primarily for embedded linux

Favorite utils GCC of course :):drawguns :beatdeadhorse

Language : asm, c++, c#(mono)

No php or anything like that. I leave that to the smart people.
Why is PHP left to smart people as opposed to C++ or C# (what is asm? Is that like a dinosaur language ?)

[hammondb3klingon1]

Why is PHP left to smart people as opposed to C++ or C# (what is asm? Is that like a dinosaur language ?)


Asm is still used in many embedded systems. PHP is something I do not pretend to use or understand. C++ makes sense to me and I do claim to be smart

[John Atkinson]

Asm is still used in many embedded systems. PHP is something I do not pretend to use or understand. C++ makes sense to me and I do claim to be smart
I haven't used Asm since navy a school in the early 80's. I understand Php, it really isn't that far removed from C++. What I am interested in learning for the web is Ruby http://www.rubyonrails.org/

Most my programming these days is done in MCode, a proprietary language for IMS Motion conttrollers. I literally wrote the book on it. http://imshome.com/Product%20Manual%20PDF/MCode.pdf

I have no interest at all in microsoft technologies like .net and asp. I played around alot with MS Basic and Visual basic a loooong time ago.

I still say MS has the best desktop platform, if for no other reason than industry support.

Vista dumped on me an hour ago in the middle of a Photoshop edit and cost me 20 minutes work. It took me 3 reboots to get my MS wireless mouse and key board working again. :ranting

[Praxeas]

I haven't used Asm since navy a school in the early 80's. I understand Php, it really isn't that far removed from C++. What I am interested in learning for the web is Ruby http://www.rubyonrails.org/

Most my programming these days is done in MCode, a proprietary language for IMS Motion conttrollers. I literally wrote the book on it. http://imshome.com/Product%20Manual%20PDF/MCode.pdf

I have no interest at all in microsoft technologies like .net and asp. I played around alot with MS Basic and Visual basic a loooong time ago.

I still say MS has the best desktop platform, if for no other reason than industry support.

Vista dumped on me an hour ago in the middle of a Photoshop edit and cost me 20 minutes work. It took me 3 reboots to get my MS wireless mouse and key board working again. :ranting
PHP doesn't need a compiler right?..BTW isn't RUBY on Rails really just PHP...I mean it's not an actual new programming language is it?

[BoredOutOfMyMind]

I lost most if not all my tech books in a flood in the garage last october (hotwater heater let loose). I had PHP reference, many books from Sams and I think I had a book or two on Ruby.

:sad

[John Atkinson]

PHP doesn't need a compiler right?..BTW isn't RUBY on Rails really just PHP...I mean it's not an actual new programming language is it?
it's new, and it's friendly and forgiving, something php is not

[John Atkinson]

PHP doesn't need a compiler right?..BTW isn't RUBY on Rails really just PHP...I mean it's not an actual new programming language is it?
no, no compiler needed. It parses through the php engine running on the server through apache or iis.

[hammondb3klingon1]

never touched ruby. I understand it is more of a GL4/5 which means rad for the desktop. Do you know if it can't be used in the embedded environ?

[John Atkinson]

never touched ruby. I understand it is more of a GL4/5 which means rad for the desktop. Do you know if it can't be used in the embedded environ?
My understanding is that it is only a couple years old and is only for web applications, no embedding.