Ron Paul Linux Users?

[madRazor]

Just about to hunker down to try and get Gentoo running SOLID on the new Shuttle barebone. I am giddy and will be up to all hours every night this week. Incidentally, the wife hates Linux for some reason.

 

[stevenstremciuc]

Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon user. I was pretty much forced into it after I got down here in El Salvador with just my laptop. At home I always used to do work using my XP desktop with a LAN connected FreeBSD server. But now, I had to be able to do all the normal desktop tasks (IDE, youtube, torrents, play different media formats, chat, skype, photo editing) and development requirements (full LAMP stack with SSL, mod_python, and mod_dav for running a Trac/Subversion setup) with 1 computer.

Turns out Gutsy Gibbon is much better at common desktop tasks than XP is at running a dev environment on.

So I still get to develop on (Linux) and deploy to (FreeBSD) very similar platforms, and I only have my laptop.

Just a quick note: I've owned both a Mac Mini and Power Mac running OS X. I'd recommend an Apple over anything else for the average computer user, but for the techies, Ubuntu is the way to go unless you have a specific tech need Ubuntu + Windows in a VM can't satisfy yet.

 

[stevenstremciuc]

Gentoo (...drool...)

Uh oh, looks like he fell asleep waiting for some compile to finish

 

[amagilly]

freebsd, redhat, and ubuntu currently.
--
promote Hayek's book The Road to Serfdom.
dedicated To THE SOCIALISTS OF ALL PARTIES.

 

[Constitution Supporter]

I think a new Linux kernel may be out - FYI, But I heard if you want to use it you might have to reinstall for it to work good or something, so I might wait.

 

[Constitution Supporter]

Man. I hate it when the suse repos are down.(there might be mirrors, but probably not for what I need) Oh well I guess I'll just wait, there's nothing too important I need right now.

 

[Korey Kaczynski]

Gentoo sucks now; it breaks alot and compiling everything for a desktop system is ridiculous.

Go Arch. Or even Debian.

 

[Benaiah]

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[kpitcher]

We're talking about a guy who loves freedom - what's more free than FreeBSD.

Linux with GPL is semi socialist. Give back the goods to everyone else in the bazaar!
BSD... you can do what you want, how you want, anyway you want.

Want to make a great operating system for Apple? Use FreeBSD, add eye candy, and relabel it OS X.

Hrm, so I'd say BSD is more liberatian than Linux..

 

[Constitution Supporter]

Hey did you know there is on opensource bios. "http://openbios.info/Welcome_tpenBIOS" I don't know if I'd trust it with my comp yet, and the one I have works fine, but I still think it's pretty cool.

 

[AFM]

Where my slackware dudes at

 

[Baptist]

/bump


I read this thread when it first came out, and shortly thereafter switched from Windows to Ubuntu. To be more precise, my brother and I both switched from Windows to Ubuntu. I credit this thread for Ubuntuizing me. Now that it is two years later, I thought that I would give a report.

My brother always updates to the new ones, so he has used 7.1, 8.1, 9.1 and 10.1. I was lazy so I pretty much stuck with 8.1 almost this whole time. I converted our parents and other siblings to Ubuntu as well. My brother and I were able to overcome the hardships of Ubuntu (driver compatibility and what not) but it frustrated my parents to no end. Although I will say that my younger brothers had fun playing around with it and learning how to fix things.

Well I just installed 10.1 on my laptop and PC this week. My brother has had 10.1 for a month or so. My parents installed 10.1 on two laptops and a desktop. This edition is AWESOME. This install worked perfectly from the get-go for every machine that all of us put it on. This has never happened to any of us before on any machine (except one edition went flawless once for my brother). I had so many issues with 8.1 on this laptop but this new 10.1 is just sweeeeet.


If any of you have contemplated trying out Ubuntu, now is the time. I love Ubuntu and prefer to use it for almost everything (if I play games I'll hop on Windows, or hop on the mac for video rendering). When I'm not on Ubuntu, I miss it. I hate using mac and windows now. Ubuntu rocks.

Thanks RPFs!

 

[molly_pitcher]

Linux/Ubuntu user here, have been for years.

 

[eOs]

Windows 7 on my main pc because I'm a gamer
Got my laptop right here with Xubuntu on it, don't really use it too much, no need really, I'll probably start using it more when I delve into shell scripting, c++, and the kernel

 

[fgd]

Ubuntu runs the living room PC which is the media PC, mail server, IRC server, VPN server, web server, Tor node, Freenet node, and security system.

XP on the PC in the workshop because I need to run CAD apps.