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Linux users? Are there any here?
#21
RE: Linux users? Are there any here?
(September 15, 2015 at 5:42 am)Alex K Wrote: I use it exclusively, though I currently run the l4m3r distro Ubuntu.

I always feel patronized by Windows, I use a lot of free software of all kinds, a lot of scientific stuff is designed to run on linux. I like being able to use bash and all that goes with it

What's some of the software you use?
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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#22
RE: Linux users? Are there any here?
The server which powers the forums runs Linux. I use Linux on a daily basis at work, but these days I tend to use OS X for personal stuff. Of course, I have Linux VMs for some other stuff, and a netbook running Linux Mint.

I also have a few Raspberry Pi's which run it.

Whilst I get people's frustrations with it, especially in terms of graphics, you can't really blame a system for something the manufacturer (e.g. AMD) are responsible for. I don't think I ever encountered a bug in the update manager for Linux Mint, but then again, if it stops working, file a bug report and go back to using the terminal (apt-get upgrade) to do updates.
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#23
RE: Linux users? Are there any here?
(September 15, 2015 at 10:38 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote:
(September 15, 2015 at 5:42 am)Alex K Wrote: I use it exclusively, though I currently run the l4m3r distro Ubuntu.

I always feel patronized by Windows, I use a lot of free software of all kinds, a lot of scientific stuff is designed to run on linux. I like being able to use bash and all that goes with it

What's some of the software you use?

Oh jeez. I'll leave out the specific scientific stuff that is not of general interest. I have a tablet Notebook (Lenovo 220), so Xournal and Gimp frequently, Inkscape. Audacity, Audacious, VLC, MuseScore, OpenShot, AviDemux, Shotwell, Mozilla Thunderbird+Firefox. vim (yeah!), gcc, g++, gfortran, perl, the Gnu scientific library. Tex/Latex all day long, SVN. grep, sed and all that, imagemagick or whatever it is called nowadays. I probably forgot some essential ones...
The fool hath said in his heart, There is a God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
Psalm 14, KJV revised edition

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#24
RE: Linux users? Are there any here?
(September 15, 2015 at 9:54 pm)Alex K Wrote:
(September 15, 2015 at 10:38 am)Lemonvariable72 Wrote: What's some of the software you use?

Oh jeez. I'll leave out the specific scientific stuff that is not of general interest. I have a tablet Notebook (Lenovo 220), so Xournal and Gimp frequently, Inkscape. Audacity, Audacious, VLC, MuseScore, OpenShot, AviDemux, Shotwell, Mozilla Thunderbird+Firefox. vim (yeah!), gcc, g++, gfortran, perl, the Gnu scientific library. Tex/Latex all day long, SVN. grep, sed and all that, imagemagick or whatever it is called nowadays. I probably forgot some essential ones...

Thanks, im working on my own implantation of Debian right now.
To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.
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#25
RE: Linux users? Are there any here?
So now that I'm not on my phone I can try to reconstruct my Linux / UNIX history.

SCO Xenix / Unix (~1988) - remember bang-path addressing for email? I do.
Minux (around the same time period)
1993 - first started using Slackware Linux
1994 - switched to FreeBSD 2.0 as a server OS due to some shortcomings in Linux at the time
~1997-1998 - back to Red Hat Linux
~2003 Fedora Linux
~2005-2008 Gentoo Linux
Around 2009 I started using Ubuntu, but they lost me several years ago with the Unity crap (which I despise). Been using Mint for desktops since, and the server version of Ubuntu.

In between the above, I've probably installed every major distro for evaluation.

There was a brief time when I rolled my own distro from source (but abandoned it as impractical), and experimented with a custom boot chain that supported full-disk encryption before it could be done out-of-the-box. Now it's easy.

These days, I use Ubuntu LTS Server releases and FreeBSD for servers, and Mint for desktop. Work uses RedHat Enterprise and Oracle's version of Red Hat.
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#26
RE: Linux users? Are there any here?
CT, do you remember SCO Unixware V? We used that at work before going to Slowarse/Oracle.
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#27
RE: Linux users? Are there any here?
Oh, yeah - also SunOS, Solaris, HPUX, Sequent Dynix and Dynix/ptx amongst others I've likely forgotten existed.

We used a ton of SCO Xenix / Unix / Unixware at a previous employer. We used it to build fax and interactive voice response servers and push rack/port densities that we could only dream of with the older (DOS-based) units. IRC, we could push only 16 ports per cabinet with the DOS units, but 128 with the Unixware boxes. Pretty big win considering we had customers that had 10+ *racks* of the DOS units in production (this was during the mid-90s, today those port densities would be laughable).
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#28
RE: Linux users? Are there any here?
Been using different flavours since about the mid 90's. I'm currently running dual boot win10/lubuntu on my desktop and ubuntu server on my home server. I think my favourite distro back before everyone jumped ship for Arch was Gentoo.
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#29
RE: Linux users? Are there any here?
Um yes i use Kali for educational purposes only because you can do serious damage with that.
And i use a custom version for a arm mounted pc im working on.
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#30
RE: Linux users? Are there any here?
(September 16, 2015 at 5:36 am)StuW Wrote: Been using different flavours since about the mid 90's.  I'm currently running dual boot win10/lubuntu on my desktop and ubuntu server on my home server.  I think my favourite distro back before everyone jumped ship for Arch was Gentoo.

When did everyone leave Gentoo for Arch? That must have happened after I stopped following Gentoo.
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