Linux anyone?
I was just sitting here admiring how well Linux works on my machine and wondered how many of you also use linux and which distro? I ran Red Hat Fedora core 3 for a while and then moved to FC4 and that was not an improvement. Ubuntu came out with the best (so far) in a “turn key” operating system and I am using the “Breezey Badger” release. Like it a lot, and any support I need I get from my son, Anton Olsen.
I would guess that most of you Swedes would be using this as Linus Torvalds, a “Finlandssvensk”, or Finlandssvenskar” Concieved of, and started this whole OS.
So, you using Linux? tried it? Like it? Hit that comment button at the bottom and let me know!
Tony Olsen
Anton
2 Feb, 2006
I’ll try to get the ball rolling here.
I started using Linux back in the mid 90s when Slackware 0.92 was released. I downloaded a copy from a BBS and burned it on floppies. (Was it called burning when we had floppies?)
I stuck with Slack until a friend gave me a Redhat 4.2 CD and I discovered the joys of an installer.
I grew with Redhat through Fedora Core 4 with a few affairs with Gentoo, Debian and Suse. I always went back the the RH product because of the installer.
FC4 was such an utter piece of crap with broken package dependencies, frequent gnome crashes and a difficult to patch kernel. A friend at work urged me to try Ubuntu and gave me a CD for the beta release of Breezy. I haven’t looked back and now use Ubuntu on all but one of my machines (it’s getting fixed soon). Ubuntu rocks because it “just works”.
If you are afraid to make the jump to Ubuntu, give one of the Live CDs a try. They’ll boot right off the CD and let you play around without breaking your current system.
Alex Harford
2 Feb, 2006
Hi Tony, just started reading your blog today, and you’re talking about one of my other favourite subjects. I’ve been using Linux since about ‘96. I started with Slackware and moved to SUSE recently. It is a very nice desktop system, although I prefer Fedora for servers.
Tony
10 Feb, 2006
Hi Alex,
Do you have a web page?
And. are you running Firefox and thunderbird too? good apps.
Later..
Tony