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CyruzDraxs
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Oct 08, 2009 02:20 PM |
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AntiHero
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Oct 21, 2009 01:12 AM |
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I'm liking Ubuntu for its ease of use and vast community. I personally think it's the better of the distros for someone who doesn't want to spend all their time fixing. Not to say that other distros like Fedora or Sabayon are challenges, but some can be more work than others, take openSUSE for example, it is a bit more work, it's a good OS, but it can take more time to get set up right. I like to run Kubuntu as well, or in most cases, run Ubuntu and put KDE 4 on it and switch between GNOME and KDE whenever I feel like a change. It's a simple thing to do really.
I think what i like most is the file library found via Synaptic. I enjoy a nice selection of software to choose from, and better yet that I don't have to do anything but enter in the root password and move on to another task, or leave it if I feel the desire to. I know it sounds lazy, but it is nice to have a stable OS that doesn't need babysitting.
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Oct 29, 2009 09:27 AM |
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James_A
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Nov 06, 2009 12:24 PM |
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I'm a Fedora fan, been on it since core 4. Was pretty disappointed with Fedora 11 though, I only have laptops, and it just didn't take well, and had pretty poor power saving. Even had to write a script just to turn off the LCD, though that may be in part due to some massive hardware failures I was also having on that laptop. I'm not a big fan of Ubuntu, but it is a pretty good distro. I've managed to get just about my whole family switched over to Ubuntu from Windows, but I find it takes away too much of my control of the system, and I don't particularly like how it binds the root control to the user accounts, though it's not such a big deal on single user systems, and can be changed. Pretty much, I like Fedora on my computers, Ubuntu on computers I take care of, and Debian for servers, though it's a bit of a love-hate relationship I have with Debian.
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Nov 15, 2009 11:25 PM |
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Nov 16, 2009 12:14 AM |
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Well, I'm on the Ubuntu deathwagon. Like Whoami, I started in 1995 with Slackware. Then Red Hat, Debian, LFS, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Gentoo, and Ubuntu.
Why Ubuntu? As time passed, the difficulties of configuring and rolling kernels, and dealing with configuration issues that new hardware brings (particularly when the manufacturer does not support it in one's OS, which is usually), required exponentially increasing time to deal with. These days, manual configuration of a kernel can easily take 3-4 hours, with so many new kernel options appearing in every release.
The kernel and the software environment have become so complex that it's almost a full-time job to keep things working, so I decided to leave it to people whose jobs it actually was to do this stuff. The default Ubuntu kernel works with all my hardware except for a GDI printer (no surprise there). I like Gentoo -- it's very well done -- but I do not want to spend half my time configuring and fixing broken packages by hand. Sometimes a guy just wants to use his equipment...
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Nov 28, 2009 04:14 PM |
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Jan 20, 2013 03:44 PM |
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For mission critical dedicated servers and any site I build that requires max security because it's handling funds or is a giant target for competitors to attack (like a digital currency exchange site) I only use OpenBSD. You can virtualize the routing tables and use pf firewalls to properly isolate every machine from each other. You only have to remove a minimum amount of packages from the default install. You also don't have to worry about random x64 bugs popping up because whenever they release one on seclists the first reply is "OpenBSD fixed this years ago".
For low security like a wordpress site just serving up information, or for a test VPS to try out tools and deploy beta software I use debian. I ran debian as a desktop for years so am familiar with it's shortcomings and benefits. You have to strip down debian from the default install, then hope another debian dev doesn't comment out some random number generating code reducing entropy down to nearly nothing like what happened a few years ago, which is when I stopped using debian. You are also are at the mercy of Torvalds insanity kernel dev release cycle that is geared towards features and usability not security, so there's going to be exploitable bugs in the kernel you'll have to live with.
For a desktop I'm using OpenBSD multi tmux terminals because i'm a neckbeard who only requires command line email, irssi, lynx, a python shell and CLISP. Any X browser I need I spawn in another tmux window. I messed around with Gentoo for awhile after ditching debian, but you get tired of compiling absolutely everything when you need to upgrade otherwise Gentoo is great for a linux desktop if you like having total control and running a minamalist linux distro.
For crazy LISP development which is like almost everything I do now I use OpenBSD, and still have a debian install with older Ubuntu distro as host in a VM for Android development or tinkering around with MIT released experimental software. Seems to me like everybody is using Ubuntu 12.04 or OSX for development at corporations and universities as a bitter neckbeard I don't see how they can stand it.
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