I'll second that for OpenWRT. I current run it on my linksys wrt54g router, acting as a wireless bridge/client (connecting my lan to the minneapolis municipal wifi).
As the workstation goes, I run Xubuntu (xfce4 flavor of ubuntu) on both my desktop and laptop. I choose ubuntu due to its debian based nature, and set release/development cycles. Also, the community behind ubuntu is fairly strong, and closed source commercialized packages (such as nvidia drivers, vmware, etc) are highly supported. For my media center I used to run Freevo on a debian box, but due to the lack of decent HD support in linux (on lower end hardware), I've switched over to media portal and vista with a handful of proprietary windows based codecs. Finally, for work I'm stuck with XP, which isn't all that bad after installing cygwin/xserver and console2. This gives me a multi-tabbed console bash environment to work on within my XP environment, the closest thing I've found to a linux-like setup in windows (without actually running a linux virtual machine). Andy On Tue, Aug 19, 2008 at 10:44 AM, Jay Kline <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > OS choices and why? > > > > Im honestly a little surprised there are no Mac comments yet, so Ill add > one :-) > > My home PC runs Debian, but my main work system is a Mac. The Mac gives > me all the power of Unix, with the easy factor set to the point my wife > can use it easily. Not that there are not issues from time to time, but > overall, Im very impressed with the OS and how things "just work". And > the new Time Machine feature in 10.5 was so awesome that I even paid to > upgrade one of my personal laptops to it. Automated backups for the > desktop have never been easy for me (it either breaks or there arn't > any) so to have it built into the OS is handy. > > My home PC has been running Debian unstable for many years now. Not for > the faint of heart (it breaks from time to time, just due to its nature) > but if you are competent enough to fix most problems Debian Sid gives > (in my opinion) the best mix of available applications and ease of use. > > On a regular basis I also use Ubuntu (both 32 and 64bit versions), > CentOS, Fedora, SuSE, OpenWRT, and Solaris. I find package management > with yum to give me headaches, so I tend to avoid its use, but the Yum > based distros are otherwise very nice to use. > > OpenWRT is great for small systems, by the way. I use it on my DSL > modem/router which has only 8M on it. > > Jay > > _______________________________________________ > scalug-list mailing list > [email protected] > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/scalug-list >
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