jmh
November 17th, 2005, 04:26 PM
As the forum keeps on telling me I have never posted here, here you go (well, ok, I only joined 3 hours ago but have been looking in for weeks)
I started using Ubuntu when Hoary came out - they sent me the Warty CDs but as they arrived Hoary was announced so I grabbed the image. Previously I used RedHat but was turned off when I bought a packaged copy for the support and then they cancelled the support. Not used other brands - the apt-get functionality here is really useful, dunno how it compares but it is easier that the RH methods IMO.
I dabbled with Gentoo but it would never install completely so I gave up. Never figured out why but that PC is long dead now anyway so if hardware the problem literally went away.
I use most o/s's at work - we run major servers on Linux and SunOS, and Win2003. But for home, as WinXP just blew up on the kids PC and thus got binned, we are 75% Windows-free.
We are almost all WinXP desktops at work but hey I don't have to fix them when they break! (and I admit I still find it easier to get round Windows in a CMD window using the old DOS commands - just as I like the command prompt in Unix)
Got Ubuntu on a server at home (house is wired and wireless, Gb Ethernet and switch, and ADSL connected) with all our music held centrally (now I discovered the packaged thing in Ubuntu that I forgot the name of). Uncle Bill actually helped me out here, as when the kids XP blew I rearranged all the music into OGG files on the server and can play it anywhere now. That server also runs all my e-mail, webmail, several websites and, well, all the stuff you do with Unix anyway.
The next project is a PVR setup, if I can sneak all the bits in past the wife! Trouble is she may notice the PC sitting under the telly :D Anyway I can guarantee I will not be installing Windows MCE.
So, Hi!
I started using Ubuntu when Hoary came out - they sent me the Warty CDs but as they arrived Hoary was announced so I grabbed the image. Previously I used RedHat but was turned off when I bought a packaged copy for the support and then they cancelled the support. Not used other brands - the apt-get functionality here is really useful, dunno how it compares but it is easier that the RH methods IMO.
I dabbled with Gentoo but it would never install completely so I gave up. Never figured out why but that PC is long dead now anyway so if hardware the problem literally went away.
I use most o/s's at work - we run major servers on Linux and SunOS, and Win2003. But for home, as WinXP just blew up on the kids PC and thus got binned, we are 75% Windows-free.
We are almost all WinXP desktops at work but hey I don't have to fix them when they break! (and I admit I still find it easier to get round Windows in a CMD window using the old DOS commands - just as I like the command prompt in Unix)
Got Ubuntu on a server at home (house is wired and wireless, Gb Ethernet and switch, and ADSL connected) with all our music held centrally (now I discovered the packaged thing in Ubuntu that I forgot the name of). Uncle Bill actually helped me out here, as when the kids XP blew I rearranged all the music into OGG files on the server and can play it anywhere now. That server also runs all my e-mail, webmail, several websites and, well, all the stuff you do with Unix anyway.
The next project is a PVR setup, if I can sneak all the bits in past the wife! Trouble is she may notice the PC sitting under the telly :D Anyway I can guarantee I will not be installing Windows MCE.
So, Hi!