Hi all,
There's been some coverage recently [1] about the relative popularity of different distributions and hardware platforms. I just thought it would be kinda interesting before the next meeting (which I should be at) to see who uses what?
I'll start the ball rolling: 6 Debian Intel (all manner of junk from 486 to P3) and 1 Debian Alpha.
Andrew.
At moment, Slackware 8 on a self built Athlon. I'm planning on installing Debian (unstable probably) soon as Slackware is getting a bit messy from all the stuff I've compiled/installed. I started off with Mandrake, but soon tired of all the hand holding (something my Windows using friends found bizarre!). I really enjoyed setting up Slackware from scratch and learnt a lot in the process.
Come to think of it, perhaps I'll leave the Debian install till the meeting, it seems there are a fair few Debian fans around here :^)
Andrew
Andrew Savory wrote:
Hi all,
There's been some coverage recently [1] about the relative popularity of different distributions and hardware platforms. I just thought it would be kinda interesting before the next meeting (which I should be at) to see who uses what?
I'll start the ball rolling: 6 Debian Intel (all manner of junk from 486 to P3) and 1 Debian Alpha.
Andrew.
[1] http://lwn.net//2001/1115/#dist
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On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Andrew Bayliss wrote:
Come to think of it, perhaps I'll leave the Debian install till the meeting, it seems there are a fair few Debian fans around here :^)
Speaking of .... anyone want Debian 2.2r4 CDs? If you shout in advance I'll bring a stack. (I know I still owe at least one person on the list a CD...)
Andrew.
OK here's my 2 p'th : Work : RedHat6.2 as an intranet Server ... OK - easy config for things like printing, display and sound - the good side of RedHat. Slackware leaned-up with custom (non-modular) 2.4.4 kernel as a firewall (Could have been anything). Cobalt Linux (not a true distro I suppose - redhat 6.2 based methinks)
Home : Debian Potato (Desktop - nee RedHat 6.2)... still scratching my head with it, but its getting there. I Love apt!!! but (for now at least - because I can't get it to work properly) I hate debian's way of building kernels, why not the same as everyone else? and is fakeroot a security hole ??
Cheers Earl
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-----Original Message----- From: main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk [mailto:main-admin@lists.alug.org.uk]On Behalf Of Andrew Savory Sent: Monday 19 November 2001 15:43 To: main@lists.alug.org.uk Subject: [Alug] Distributions
Hi all,
There's been some coverage recently [1] about the relative popularity of different distributions and hardware platforms. I just thought it would be kinda interesting before the next meeting (which I should be at) to see who uses what?
I'll start the ball rolling: 6 Debian Intel (all manner of junk from 486 to P3) and 1 Debian Alpha.
Andrew.
[1] http://lwn.net//2001/1115/#dist
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On Mon, 19 Nov 2001, Earl Brannigan wrote:
Debian Potato (Desktop - nee RedHat 6.2)... still scratching my head with it, but its getting there. I Love apt!!!
If you're feeling brave or masochistic, "deity" (the dselect/console-apt replacement) is kinda interesting. Comes with console and gui (gtk) interfaces, and has many improvements. I hate the excessively tree-like views and daft defaults, though.
but (for now at least - because I can't get it to work properly) I hate debian's way of building kernels, why not the same as everyone else?
When it's good, it's very very good. But a vertical learning curve. The main bonus of it is you can add/remove kernels using apt (package management for kernels!), which is especially good if you just use default kernels.
Which bit specifically isn't working properly for you?
Andrew.
SuSe 6.3 - Retired from regular use. BDI-EMC - Bastardized RH 6.x distro. RH6.2 - Standard install. RH 7.1 - Main platform at the moment. Linux From Scratch.
All running on a mix of P166, Celeron, and Duron boxes. As each drive is mounted in removeable caddies, it is pot luck as to which box is running which distro.
Regards, Paul.
On Monday 19 November 2001 3:42 pm, Andrew Savory wrote:
There's been some coverage recently [1] about the relative popularity of different distributions and hardware platforms. I just thought it would be kinda interesting before the next meeting (which I should be at) to see who uses what?
On Mon, 19 Nov 2001 15:42:33 Andrew Savory wrote:
There's been some coverage recently [1] about the relative popularity of different distributions and hardware platforms. I just thought it would be kinda interesting before the next meeting (which I should be at) to see who uses what?
At Home: Debian Woody on i386 (Athlon 750). At Work: Debian Woody on i386 (Pentium III 500) Debian Potato on i386 (Pentium 133) Redhat 6.2 on i386 (Pentium II 300, I think).
Steve.
Hi all, Think I might at last make it to an ALUG meeting!
There's been some coverage recently [1] about the relative popularity of different distributions and hardware platforms. I just thought it would be kinda interesting before the next meeting (which I should be at) to see who uses what?
At Home: Debian Potato on Intel. RH 7.1 on Athlon, dual boot win2k. Playing with Yellowdog on Mac Powerbook lately...fun but weird.
At Work: Debian Potato on Intel (powered by Luminas, made by DNUK)
Yes I do Although I seem to be falling behind in my preparations for the
talk
about interprocess comunication.
Owen: I'm trying to get me head around threads + pipes for communicating between apps (one complex adaptive systems IDE (swarm) + one visual programming music thingy (pd)). WOuld this fall between the remit of your talk? In which case......yes please!
Speaking of .... anyone want Debian 2.2r4 CDs?
I stupidly lost the one MJ gave me (thankfully post-install at home), so I'd love one...
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Hiya, OK, my distro votes:
@Home DebianPPC on a PowerMac 7200/90 Mandrake 8.0 on a P133 Laptop Homebrewed on a homebrew ;-)
@Work Debian on a PII 333
Only went to Mandrake 'coz of a hard drive crash and the fsking Debian CD's wouldn't boot.
The homebrew's a 486DX5 PC104 board with 16M flash boot disk. So far I've managed to get quite a fair chunk of what I want onto it (busybox, sshd, pppd, playing with various getty's, lprng, vim, ruby - I think postgres, apache and ghostscript might be pushing it!) uLibc and Debian AltDev are your friends...
Andrew Savory wrote:
Hi all,
There's been some coverage recently [1] about the relative popularity of different distributions and hardware platforms. I just thought it would be kinda interesting before the next meeting (which I should be at) to see who uses what?
Almost exclusively SuSE in this house. 7.3 on the desktops, 6.4 on the server.
My Powerbook, being a PPC box, has had several distros tried out on it and was last using SuSE 7.0, before Mac OS X got installed the other week :)
Jo
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