[clue-talk] survey results

[Brian Gibson]

Oh an I forgot to mention Symphony OS and gOS.  I like the fact that they've tried to step away from the standard windows desktop environment.  Symphony OS had some innovative ideas about the DE and gOS is cool because of its use of hooking into online services for its primary application suite.  I'd probably put gOS on the guest laptop except I think the system requirement specifiy a 3D accelerator for the current version.  Everex isn't huge on supporting or even making available older versions of the OS.



----- Original Message ----
From: Brian Gibson <bwg1974 at yahoo.com>
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Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 11:38:43 PM
Subject: Re: [clue-talk] survey results

In terms of distros I've tried, I recall Slackware was my first way back in college after seeing a friend was showing off how he was recompiling his kernel.  I stopped soon after when I would rather use my computer to play Doom (and do school work).  Had a few false starts with RH.  It wasn't until Ubuntu that I started messing with Linux again.  I've installed Puppy, Vector, and finally settling on DeLi Linux to resurrect my P-133, but that was shortly retired when I replaced its function as a guest computer with a laptop.  I forgot to mention that I have an OpenWRT router.  I've toyed with Myth, but I've not managed to get an installation the way I want and it's probably due to the fact I'm recycling hardware rather than purchasing hardware specific for that purpose.  Plus with the growth of streaming media, the need for a DVR is less and less necessary if you're willing to put up with the minimal commercial breaks.



----- Original Message ----
From: Jed S. Baer <cluemail at jbaer.cotse.net>
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Sent: Monday, June 15, 2009 4:28:04 PM
Subject: Re: [clue-talk] survey results

On Mon, 15 Jun 2009 13:42:31 +0000 (UTC)
dennisjperkins at comcast.net wrote:

> I think a lot of people don't explore distros any more. Most of my
> exploring of distros occurred when I started using Linux. Ubuntu gives
> most people what they need, so they don't look any further.

Well, if you want to get into 'what distros have you used?', that's a
slightly different question. I started with RH5.2 and mostly kept with RH
through Fedora n, before switching to Kubuntu. But I did try SuSE out
once for about a week, in between RH distros. And I've tried out Puppy
and DSL. When I was at HP, I used SLES and RHEL on testing machines, but
Kubuntu on my desktop. Back in 1999, I briefly attempted to use Debian on
the desktop at my job. And I've run Knoppix a few times, either out of
curiosity, or because I needed to do something I couldn't do with
Kubuntu. And I've run CentOS at home when I needed an environment like
the CLUE VPS runs.

I suppose I have less desire to explore different distros now, because I
don't see the cost/benefit working out. I'm liking Puppy on the laptop,
but then I make very few demands on that machine, and in fact don't run
it much. If/when my needs change, I might look at other distros, but
most likely that'll be for purpose-built systems, such as a media
center or sound station, rather than looking for some other philosophy of
updates, package mgmt. or something like that.

jed
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