[Colchester] Whos using what?

[chris pritchard]

i use linux at home (still at school), and gentoo is good fun if you
get that hang of it and you will learn A LOT

On 7/24/06, Ian Snow <ian.snow at btinternet.com> wrote:
> Well seeing as I'm currently looking for work, I use linux primarily at home
>
> On Monday 24 July 2006 21:58, David Lee wrote:
> > it's a p4 2.4ghz so should be alright for gentoo then.  just had a look at
> > gentoo.org and realised that I recognised it.. I do remember going through
> > a gentoo install on a machine I was playing with at work but didn't get
> > much use out of it as I had to use it for other things.
> >
> > still, I like the idea of the debian based ones as I've found apt really
> > handy for installing stuff.... although I should really get my head around
> > compiling things and dependancies and the like
> >
> > Just out of interest, do you guys use Linux much at work or just at home.
> > The servers I manage are all but one running Windows Server...
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > From: colchester-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk on behalf of chris pritchard
> > Sent: Mon 24/07/2006 21:39
> > To: colchester at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > Subject: Re: [Colchester] Whos using what?
> >
> >
> >
> > well david, i would reccomend arch if your desktop is i686 (which it
> > probably is), or gentoo if it is faster than 1.5 Ghz, gentoo is a
> > compile everything distro, but i can help with the install (over SSH)
> >
> > On 7/24/06, David Lee <dave at chezbling.co.uk> wrote:
> > > I'm running Win XP and Debian (3.1 I think) on the desktop, WinXP on the
> > > laptop, Win2k3 Server and Debian 3.1 on a couple of PCs I use as servers.
> > >  I'm still a bit of a newbie and a bit scared of using linux full time on
> > > the desktop.  installed debian mainly because of apt (as I've never got
> > > on with compiling progs from scratch) but I understand debian is very
> > > conversative with what it includes for stability reasons, i.e. i
> > > understand the x server that comes with it is pretty old, etc. I install
> > > x.org instead but wonder if there is lots of other stuff that could be
> > > upgraded.  perhaps I should go for something other than debian for a
> > > desktop...
> > >
> > > seeing as the work laptop has xp on which I can use if I can get really
> > > scare of a linux desktop, maybe I should bite the bullet and wipe XP from
> > > the desktop :)
> > >
> > > ________________________________
> > >
> > > From: colchester-bounces at mailman.lug.org.uk on behalf of Ian Snow
> > > Sent: Mon 24/07/2006 21:28
> > > To: colchester at mailman.lug.org.uk
> > > Subject: [Colchester] Whos using what?
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Just thought I start a thread to see who is using what.
> > >
> > > I'm currently using Arch Linux, I've also got a 64bit Kubuntu Dapper
> > > Drake on this machine as well.
> > >
> > > In the past I've used Mandrake, Redhat and Gentoo.
> > >
> > > Ian
> > >
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