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Are you a linux user?

Poll Results: Are you a current or past linux user?

 
  • 35% (14)
    Current Linux Laptop User
  • 12% (5)
    Current Linux Desktop User
  • 40% (16)
    Current Linux Laptop & Desktop User
  • 0% (0)
    Past Linux Laptop User
  • 12% (5)
    Past Linux Desktop User
  • 0% (0)
    Past Linux Laptop & Desktop User
40 Total Votes  
post #1 of 17
5/11/05 at 11:41pm
Thread Starter 
Feel free to share & explain what distro and/or system you use or have used in the past.

I dual-boot my desktop with Mandrake 10, and my Dell 9300 laptop runs on Ubuntu Hoary.
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post #2 of 17
5/12/05 at 6:33am
Hi,

I have two distros installed on my beast :-) ASUS Z71v

1. PLD Linux (www.pld-linux.org)
2. Mandrake 10.1 Community

Zmrol
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Do Yon know what is worse than Xwindows ?
- (Xwindows) minus X ;-)))
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post #3 of 17
5/12/05 at 6:43am
past distros : Suse, Debian, Red Hat

soon as I get my lappy I'll be multibooting, XP Pro, XP Pro x64 and Suse x64
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post #4 of 17
5/12/05 at 12:06pm
Current Desktop/Laptop User...

Past Distros:
College Linux, Debian, Fedora, FreeBSD, Gentoo, Knoppix, Mandrake, Red Hat, Slackware, SuSE, Yellow Dog... + PLHAK... Those Are The Major Ones + Alot of small ones... (I think i have tried most)...

Current Distros:
A few Linux From Scratch Distros that i have made... + I use Windows XP Home & Windows 2000 Pro...
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post #5 of 17
5/12/05 at 1:06pm
No dual boot!

We use Linux on my dual Opteron, my wife's dual Xeon, my daughter's Toshiba 3000-S304 laptop, my wife's Dell D600 laptop and my Dell M70 laptop.

Just doing our part to eliminate Microsoft's death grip.
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post #6 of 17
5/12/05 at 1:07pm
SUSE exclusively on all systems.
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post #7 of 17
5/12/05 at 5:26pm
Thread Starter 
Quote:
Originally Posted by cjcox
No dual boot!

We use Linux on my dual Opteron, my wife's dual Xeon, my daughter's Toshiba 3000-S304 laptop, my wife's Dell D600 laptop and my Dell M70 laptop.

Just doing our part to eliminate Microsoft's death grip.
Well, until gimp becomes compatible with photoshop plugins (or vendors make their plugins gimp usable) and more game's become supported in linux I am going to have to have to keep windows around for a little while longer.

In the interim, I'm more than happy with linux for most day to day tasks.
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post #8 of 17
5/12/05 at 6:08pm
Favourite Distros Slackware, Debian, Ubuntu.
Currently using Ubuntu but will switch back to debian soon
Hope I get my 8104 soon so I can install debian on that one too
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post #9 of 17
5/12/05 at 7:01pm
Laptop/Desktop user
Beta tested and testing for Xandros linux. Have used Mandrake, RH 8, Lycros, SuSE, Fedora, Lindows, and Corel Linux. Xandros Beta *** works on my 9300 Dell. I have X.v.3 running on my Amd64 machine. Nice setup.
Eric
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post #10 of 17
5/12/05 at 9:52pm
currently:

Laptop: Ubuntu Hoary 5.04 amd64
Desktop: VidaLinux (VLOS) 1.1 x86

in the past:
desktop: simplyMepis, Suse 9.1 Pro, Suse 9.1 Personal, Mandrake 10.0 official, RedHat 8
laptop: nearly 20odd distros i can't remember

only reason i am keeping a 15gb windows partition on my lappy drive is because i have a Dell Axim x50v and it doesn't want to sync with linux
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post #11 of 17
5/13/05 at 1:27am
i am using running kubuntu hoary 5.04 on desktop (dual-boot with winxp) and my laptop is running damn small linux 1.0 exclusively.
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post #12 of 17
5/13/05 at 2:03am
Dual booting Ubuntu 5.04 and Windows 95 (for bios upgrades) on my CL56.
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post #13 of 17
5/13/05 at 3:27pm
I use Linux on desktop for development...and for Americas Army...

Past Distros: Red Hat 9, SuSE 9.0, SuSE 9.1, Gentoo 2004.2, Knoppix, Yoper v2, Novell Linux Desktop 9, Fedora Core 3, Fedora Core 4 Test 2, Fedora Core 1, Fedora Core 2, Solaris 10 (It can run Linux apps natively, :P), and Debian Sid

Current Distro: Ubuntu Hoary 5.04

I must say, out of all of the distro's I have tried, Ubuntu is probablly the best. All of my hardware worked, and all software works out of the box (Except for Apache / PHP / MySQL...meh)...

Also first distro that I didn't have major sound problems with (Sound is perfect)...*hugs Ubuntu*

GCC 4.0 all the way!

Cliekid
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post #14 of 17
5/13/05 at 5:11pm
I have tried Suse 9.1, 9.2, Mandrake 10, 10.1 Community, VLOS 1.1 x86_64, gentoo 2004, yoper v1, v2(beta), FC3, Knoppix 3.7(i installed to HD), Mepis 3.3, Ubuntu 5.04 (Hoary). I think that's it. I think, though there are probably a few others. All of these I have tested on my Sager np4750. My favorite is Ubuntu 5.04. It installed simpy. It detected and installed drivers for everything but my tv-tuner, 4-in-1 flash media reader, FIR. Oh, i also had to finagle the sound slightly to work properly. But it is slick, fast, not too bloated.uge community support. Different, but comfortable default theme, gnome 2.10. I just really like it.

I use it mostly IM, browsing, wordprocessing, image editing, email, games, music(the built in speakers of the np4750 sound so much better in linux than in Windows!), fiddling.
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post #15 of 17
5/13/05 at 7:21pm
I had so much trouble with My Sager 9860 RAID controller that I got an Asus Z71A and am very happy with my Mandrake 10.2 (mandravia) on it. Even detected the wireless card correctly. I am planning on selling the Sager. And the Asus weighs only 7 lbs.

Alex
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post #16 of 17
5/14/05 at 11:42am
Quote:
Originally Posted by Cliekid
Also first distro that I didn't have major sound problems with (Sound is perfect)...*hugs Ubuntu*

Cliekid
lucky you... i still can't get my sound working with ubuntu
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post #17 of 17
5/14/05 at 3:18pm
is it just me or is there no love for sager hardware from the linux community?
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