Another flame war! Why can't we all just get along? Just kidding... I have been using linux since 1995. First slackware on desktop and thinkpad (the vintage butterfly keyboard model), then a sony vaio with an old defunct distro called "storm" based on Debian which had probably one of the smoothest installs ever.. Followed by red hat and mandrake/mandriva. Lately my home server runs Gentoo-- which used to always be up to date but has fallen behind this past year, but it still has uptimes of months (generally between electric grid failures). This week I installed kubuntu on my intel macbook using 'parallels'.
I would have to say that though I mostly ran fvwm and gnome as my X Window Manager, KDE has increasingly been the enticing green grass in the neighbor's yard. Just because it seems to be more integrated and OSX has made me partial to well integrated systems, thus taking Kubuntu, a KDE based Ubuntu distro, for a spin. Finally, the New Mexico super computer challenge is using a specially tailored Edubuntu distro for this year's kickoff. As they use a lot of donated hardware from the labs they had a handful of funky pc/ monitor combos that required re-running the XWinows install but beyond that appeared to run incredibly smoothly. Interesting to note that a similar lab of Windows based machines would not have gone nearly as smoothly--and the licenses for that many windows XP seats (maybe 60+) would have been huge. http://www.edubuntu.org/ http://www.kubuntu.org/ http://challenge.nm.org/ --joshua On Oct 20, 2006, at 10:27 PM, Owen Densmore wrote: > OK, Doug has brought up a point I've wondered about. > > Friamers .. another question .. well three actually .. for you all: > - Which Linux desktop distros have you used? > - Which distro do/did you like best? > - What hardware did you run it on? > > Years ago at Sun I was a RedHat + Gnome user .. indeed in 2000-2002, > it, on the Thinkpad hardware, had taken over SunLabs. We even put it > in our JavaCar and found it worked with most of the weird drivers we > needed. > > It was a bit hard to get going on laptops, however. Audio was quite > difficult, requiring rebuilding the kernel with new drivers, and > getting the Sleep function to work correctly was tough. But all in > all, RedHat + Gnome + Thinkpad was quite successful. Gnome was even > available on Solaris, so the interoperability was great between the > Sun servers and the laptops. > > So anyone else out there taken on the Linux desktop challenge? > > -- Owen > > Owen Densmore http://backspaces.net > > > Begin forwarded message: > >> From: "Douglas Roberts" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: October 20, 2006 6:26:33 AM MDT >> To: "The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group" >> <friam@redfish.com> >> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] Leopard vs. Vista >> Reply-To: The Friday Morning Applied Complexity Coffee Group >> <friam@redfish.com> >> >> Mandriva 2007 'la Ora' with KDE 3.5.4 (and a slew of whatever other >> packages you prefer).. >> http://www.mandriva.com/en/linux/2007 >> >> On 10/20/06, fromm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> What do you think is more impressive, >> advanced and useful, the new.. >> >> ..Mac OS X Leopard with "Time Machine", >> "Spotlight" and "Ruby on Rails".. >> http://www.apple.com/macosx/leopard/index.html >> >> ..or the new Windows Vista >> with Aero, WPF and WCF ? >> http://www.microsoft.com/windowsvista/ >> >> -J. >> >> >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org >> >> >> >> -- >> Doug Roberts, RTI International >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> 505-455-7333 - Office >> 505-670-8195 - Cell >> ============================================================ >> FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv >> Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College >> lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org > > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org ============================================================ FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College lectures, archives, unsubscribe, maps at http://www.friam.org
