Hmm..<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 7:41 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dennisjperkins@comcast.net">dennisjperkins@comcast.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000">I have a little informal survey about the Linux preferences of CLUE members.<br><br>1. Which distro do you use?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>
CentOS, Ubuntu, Debian, FreeBSD, OpenSolaris (last two not linux, but perhaps relevant to this?) </div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000">2. Which desktop do you use? KDE3, KDE4, Gnome, other?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Gnome, mostly. If I'm using a desktop linux.</div><div>
<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000">3. How many of your computers run Linux?</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Perhaps 5 individual systems run Linux/Unix here. Not counting VMs, but counting dual boot.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000">4. Do other family members use Linux?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Yes. Kids and wife, Ubuntu.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000">5. Do you use Linux exclusively at home?</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>No. We have windows for me for games, for wife for Dragon Naturally Speaking for when my wife isn't up to typing much.</div>
<div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000">6. Are you fortunate enough to use Linux at work?</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Fortunate? Yes, I consider myself a Linux SA. I'm not quite sure what I'd do if it I couldn't be a SA. Maybe I'd program perl/php.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000">7. Do you build your own Linux? (Yes, a few of us are masochistic enough to do so! :) )</div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Does Gentoo count? Other than that, no, not really. I'm too much a fan of cohesive packaging systems.</div>
<div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div><div style="font-family:Arial;font-size:12pt;color:#000000">8. How experienced are you with Linux?</div>
</div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Perhaps 11-12 years? My first experience installing linux was shortly after my first experience installing windows 95 - 95 wasn't brand new at that point, but it was before windows 98. I had a bit of FreeBSD experience before then (I want to say it was concurrent with windows 3.1(1) ).</div>
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