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<div>On Wed, 03 Jun 2009 13:41 +0000, dennisjperkins@comcast.net wrote:</div>
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1. Which distro do you use?</div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000">Mainly Debian when I was running my own servers, but the vast majority of what I have to deal with right now is CentOS. Linux is Linux, and it doesn't really matter... I also have played with Gentoo (which was annoying), and Ubuntu in the past. I think my Ubunutu dual-boot on one old laptop hasn't been booted in about a year, though... </div>
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2. Which desktop do you use? KDE3, KDE4, Gnome, other?</div>
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<div>None if I can avoid it, they all kinda suck. But a couple of commercial products require the default Gnome desktop from CentOS, which is loaded on those machines. I'd rather just SSH into the box to do real work.</div>
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3. How many of your computers run Linux?</div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000">When you say "your" do you mean machines I acutally own, or machines I maintain? LOL.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000">At the house right now, zero. Yeah, sad I guess... but they're all turned off right now. Two or three servers have all been migrated to virtual machines at data centers, or to commercial/inexpensive services. (Example, I stopped running my own mail server after ten plus years of doing it, because living at someone elses mail server means SpamAssassin and others have MUCH more data to work with, and work better. I migrated to fastmail.fm, and haven't looked back.)</div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000">As far as other systems go... I have six or seven "embedded" Linux application servers based on a stripped version of CentOS for Amateur Radio linking (www.irlp.net), and I sysadmin two other server systems for that group, including a "conference" server with ten "channels", which is infrastructure in that network, as well as a place where we re-broadcast NASA Select audio during Shuttle missions to Amateur Radio operators throughout the U.S. and abroad... usually about 100 of those little embedded linux systems listen in for each launch and landing... the machine http://status.irlp.net is also mine to admin, but the PHP code was written by other volunteers... </div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000">Also "for fun" I help out a friend from time to time who runs a datacenter, but he hired an admin and that's waning unless those guys run into something they need help with. Back when he started a wireless ISP, we also helped him get through the growing pains of that and built his mail server and DNS "farms", etc. All of which was so simple it wasn't even worth charging him for, really. (Well, we barter favors... like any good small business owners and individuals do... he's helped me with things, I've helped him with things... It's all good.)</div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000">In addition to all of the above, my employer is increasingly using more and more embedded Linux in their products as the underlying OS for videoconferencing equipment and also for the servers/infrastructure that surround it, including "smart" H.323 firewalls, etc.</div>
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<div style="font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000">However a much more interesting Linux project with Linux-HA and High-Availability Informix was cancelled last year. Oh well... bummer.</div>
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4. Do other family members use Linux?</div>
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<div>Not a chance. Nor would I put them through that.</div>
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5. Do you use Linux exclusively at home?</div>
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<div>Nope. Mac.</div>
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6. Are you fortunate enough to use Linux at work?</div>
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<div>See above. The other systems at work are a mix of XPEK (XP Embedded Kernel), some REALLY old PSOS stuff (rare), some VxWorks at the low-level on older hardware, Solaris, and who knows what else... when seven or eight companies merge to become one, the variety of OS's and development methods is impressive... but as mentioned above, more and more it's all headed to Linux.</div>
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7. Do you build your own Linux? (Yes, a few of us are masochistic enough to do so! :) )</div>
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<div>I did LFS once. It was a good learning experience, but not sure it'd be worth doing again.</div>
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8. How experienced are you with Linux?</div>
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<div>Been cussing and discussing it since 1995 or so? I think around RH 5.0 days, and Debian "potato" or whatever was before that.</div>
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<div>Why do you ask? :-)</div>
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<div>Nate </div>
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