Author Topic: Whats on your box? (Read 3219 times)

David · « **on:** February 02, 2005, 10:41:33 PM »

The laptop has CentOS 3.3 and my main box has CentOS 3.3 dual booted with XP.
Looking to buy SUSE 9.2 Pro for both.

jspired · « **Reply #1 on:** March 03, 2005, 08:06:50 PM »

Suse 9.2 on my Toshiba notebook
Fedora on one box
Ubuntu on another

David · « **Reply #2 on:** March 03, 2005, 08:22:03 PM »

I was in the middle of a suse 9.2 FTP install and towards the end the electric went out

Im just going to buy the retail version at Best Buy this weekend.

I\'ll have to do some searching about the Ubuntu as this is the first time I ever heard of it. Is it based of off anything like redhat?

jspired · « **Reply #3 on:** March 03, 2005, 08:25:41 PM »

I picked up the Suse retail box, as well, and would recommend it!

Ubuntu is Debian based with a standard GNOME desktop. It\'s making some big headlines over at DistroWatch and across the web in recent months.

dynaweb · « **Reply #4 on:** July 31, 2005, 12:41:12 AM »

I run Mandrake 9 on the Dell laptop. I really like the desktop features, but it doesnt recognize my Netgear PC Card wireless adapter

I wanted to upgrade to version 10 to see if that makes any difference, but upgrading fails. Knoppix workes really well tho, but a little laggy and noisey to use often. I get a brand new Gateway laptop next week, so I cant wait to try stuff on there.

My desktop runs DSL-Embeded for running linux on Windows. It is great for testing scripts and learning since it doesnt require to boot down from the normal Windows session.

Our servers all run RedHat. RPMs make for easy package installs and such

I fiddled around a bit with Xandros, but I think it needs some more work and I dont like how they are charging $$ for the nicer versions

adb22791 · « **Reply #5 on:** August 03, 2005, 11:41:00 AM »

CentOS 3.4 (guiless) on my cs:source server box and on my virtual private server. Win XP on my main box.

Edit: Seems like my VPS has been updated to CentOS 3.5

sargek · « **Reply #6 on:** October 12, 2005, 08:47:44 PM »

Gentoo! It took me a long time to settle on a distro. I used Slack for about 2 years - switched to Gentoo finally (after many others in between) and it has paid off. My main system is GNU/Linux only; always has been, always will be. Been running GNU/Linux since 1998, why rock the boat?

The laptop is XplodingPile because I need a Windows machine for my development tools.

Techie-Micheal · « **Reply #7 on:** October 19, 2005, 10:34:27 PM »

Let\'s see ...

Box #

1. Debian 3.1 - internal dev server (no gui, of course).
2. Windows 2k3 - internal dev server.
3. Windows XP Pro - my client machine.
4. Debian 3.1 - runs TPG (no gui, of course).
5. Debian 3.1 - runs pixya (no gui, of course).

Any questions? ^_^ Oh, hi adb.

adb22791 · « **Reply #8 on:** October 20, 2005, 04:09:08 AM »

Hey Techie

Welcome to LinuxBoards.
Debian must be doing something right... since what is TPG\'s uptime now, almost 200 days?

Techie-Micheal · « **Reply #9 on:** October 20, 2005, 05:56:50 PM »

Quote from: adb22791

Hey Techie Welcome to LinuxBoards.
Debian must be doing something right... since what is TPG\'s uptime now, almost 200 days?

Yuppers.

adb22791 · « **Reply #10 on:** November 14, 2005, 03:17:46 PM »

Just got my latest box, running Debian 3.1

So now I have...

Virtual Private Server: CentOS 3.5
Dev Box 1: CentOS 4.0
Dev Box 2: Debian 3.1
Home PC: WinXP Pro

My VPS and both Dev boxes are guiless.

dynaweb · « **Reply #11 on:** November 14, 2005, 03:32:06 PM »

Congrats on the new box! What does the guiless do for you (just curious)?

adb22791 · « **Reply #12 on:** November 14, 2005, 03:56:17 PM »

It forces me to learn command line commands, and to learn how the operating system works. Many a time I have been stuck on something that I have had to use google (and maybe even go out and buy a book) to fix, but its a great way to learn. Its especially nice because then when I go to work on my VPS, I know what I\'m doing (well, sortof

).

zelo · « **Reply #13 on:** November 14, 2005, 04:06:48 PM »

Quote from: David

I was in the middle of a suse 9.2 FTP install and towards the end the electric went out

A good battery backup just sits there until something like that happens and then you are oh so glad you spent the money. Turn off the monitor and let it finish its download. Most decent ones will give you about :30 before it kicks the bucket.

adb22791 · « **Reply #14 on:** November 14, 2005, 04:32:48 PM »

Quote from: zelo

A good battery backup just sits there until something like that happens and then you are oh so glad you spent the money. Turn off the monitor and let it finish its download. Most decent ones will give you about :30 before it kicks the bucket.

I love my APS UPS

. Only cost me $100 and powers both my PC\'s for 5 minutes at least.
Oh, and the edit of your post was to fix the quote bracket

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