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It's been far too long since I've played with nix. Firefox has had me itching for more opensource . To top it off I'm using Linux at my new job which only made me want to install it at home even more. So far I have Deb on one of the HD's in my main system. Next is netBSD and maybe free if that goes well. Dam I miss everything but these non-ttf fonts. I'll have to transfer them over.
I figure I'll mostly run this unless I'm gaming. Now all I need is some f@h clients running and to tailor things a bit.
I have no doubt that I'll be here crying for help once I start breaking stuff. Especialy when it comes to BSD and the compiling deal.
Stick with Debian!
And which flavor of Deb are you using?
I have a woody box, an old compaq 333 celeron w/ an xtra hd for the Home dir, runs great. Fluxbox w/ Firefox, Sylpheed email client, and Emlfm (similar to My Computer), NEdit txt editor, Apache, WUFTPd, MySQL, PHP4.x, Webmin & PHPMyAdmin, local net use only.
No one has any right to force data on you
and command you to believe it or else.
If it is not true for you, it isn't true. LRH
I hear ya, I felt the same way after switching to Firefox.
I messed around with Fedora Core 2 for a bit with no GUI and now I'm trying out a little Linux distro called TinySofa.
I installed Sid with 2.6.8.1 to see some of the advances made since I last played with it.
I have to admit I was very impressed by the advancements made. I may settle into Woody with updates for the stability aspect.
I did a test run of netBSD and ran into issues with my RAID controller. It seemed to be going well and just crapped out. I think I'll just stick with Deb for now than gradually move to FreeBSD as my skill set increases.
Greetings now from netBSD.
It was the RAID since it went smoothly on the AMD system. Out the box Linux is much nicer. So I'll stick with that like I was saying untill my skills are up. I'm not looking to get into all the make and make config that BSD will need at this point.
Well experiment over and now I can carry on with learning one thing at a time here.
Linux makes a much more full-featured desktop. IMHO xBSD makes much better servers(more stable, more secure). If you want to play with netBSD, get a mac - that's what is under the hood since OSX.
I have completely fallen in love with OpenBSD (don't tell my GF) - set and forget. 117 days uptime since my last reboot - which was for a firewall rule change, not instability.
Welcome back to the real world, Neo.
anything is possible - nothing is free
Blisster wrote:It *would* be brokeback bay if I in fact went and hung out with Skye and co (did I mention he is teh hotness?)
cyberskye wrote:Linux makes a much more full-featured desktop. IMHO xBSD makes much better servers(more stable, more secure). If you want to play with netBSD, get a mac - that's what is under the hood since OSX.
I have completely fallen in love with OpenBSD (don't tell my GF) - set and forget. 117 days uptime since my last reboot - which was for a firewall rule change, not instability.
Welcome back to the real world, Neo.
It's good to be back.
The BSD aspect is more of a learning experience so I can use it at work. I'll have to try Open out too.
Have you played with any of Suns looking glass beta's? This and the course of Solaris 10 show definite promise.
Cypher_138 wrote:It's good to be back.
The BSD aspect is more of a learning experience so I can use it at work. I'll have to try Open out too.
Have you played with any of Suns looking glass beta's? This and the course of Solaris 10 show definite promise.
I was certified on Sol2.6 - haven't worked with it much since. I am sure to be looking at 10 in the near-to.
anything is possible - nothing is free
Blisster wrote:It *would* be brokeback bay if I in fact went and hung out with Skye and co (did I mention he is teh hotness?)
Cypher_138 wrote:I installed Sid with 2.6.8.1 to see some of the advances made since I last played with it.
Why thank you Isn't Sid supossed to be unstable(I think I resemble that ). My debian install was sarge, never had a problem with it other than I had no clue how to use it. I think I was trying to do to much with 0 knowledge of the product.
From time to time I like to do an install to see how far nix has come. I may do another one to soon. debian and RH are by far my favorite flavors.
Im still using the RedHat 7.3 release on my celeron 433 Runs absolutely flawless, linux is the ultimate server OS, hands down, it makes Windows 2003 server look cheap and worthless (its definately NOT cheap, but it IS worthless!). Learning all the command line's can give you a headache, but its really awesome to use linux.
I've been running Debian for some time now. Recently I've upgraded my machine to a P4 3Ghz system w/1.5GB of RAM running on a 120GB SATA HD along with a 128MB Radeon 9200
I've installed Sarge (it's in a frozen state of development and soon to be released as stable) on this new unit, compiled a custom 2.6 kernel along with the Radeon drivers.
UT2004 and Quake3 run very nicely, I'm thinking about purchasing Doom3 as well.
My only complaint about Sarge is the new libdiscover used for automatic hardware detection. I'd rather configure those type of things myself.
I also have a problem with sound compatibility and bitrott for older games on linux (I know of a work around to get old Loki games working proper on Sarge). But those are more kernel and libc related problems then Debian specific problems.
As for a desktop I use KDE along with OpenOffice. I always keep a copy of Fluxbox on my system as well.
I legally own a copy of XP, my second Windows OS besides Win95OSR2, they keep each other company in the software drawer
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