Anyone use Linux ?

[Thedelldays]

Anyone?

 

If so, what do you reckon?

[Smirking_Saint]

Very good if you can use it. It's not too difficult. Many of the newer Linux OS' are very impressive.

 

What are you looking to use it for ??

 

That being said you could always dual boot if you require windows for anything.

[saint_stevo]

I dabble, bit of Ubuntu every now and then and a lot of the stuff i use is based on the linux Kernel. su bin and all that

 

Linus is disgusting. I prefer Gnome to KDE

[badgerx16]

My wife has an ASUS notebook running LINUX, and I have a laptop cannibalised from parts of 3 dead ones that I have installed MINT LINUX on. From a cold boot, the notebook takes 45 seconds to get onto the GOOGLE home page using our home wi-fi network. As I have worked on UNIX systems for about 25 years, I don't have issues, but agree that for the uninitiated, the fact it doesn't say Micro$haft on the box does intimidate.

 

If your system has enough disc space, I would go with SS's suggestion of dual-booting. You won't need more than 10Gb for a LINUX partition.

[Baj]

Only use linux for servers, my total "desktop" time with linux probably amount to about 2 weeks over the last 10 years. The latest version of Ubuntu is out, um, tomorrow I think...

[saint_stevo]

what you want it for TDD?

[Smirking_Saint]

My wife has an ASUS notebook running LINUX, and I have a laptop cannibalised from parts of 3 dead ones that I have installed MINT LINUX on. From a cold boot, the notebook takes 45 seconds to get onto the GOOGLE home page using our home wi-fi network. As I have worked on UNIX systems for about 25 years, I don't have issues, but agree that for the uninitiated, the fact it doesn't say Micro$haft on the box does intimidate.

 

If your system has enough disc space, I would go with SS's suggestion of dual-booting. You won't need more than 10Gb for a LINUX partition.

 

I worked on UNIX for a while, that stuff was a bloody artform.

[Baj]

I worked on UNIX for a while, that stuff was a bloody artform.

Its a lot easier these days mate, trust me!

[Smirking_Saint]

Its a lot easier these days mate, trust me!

 

It was a little while ago. Remember those SGI fuel machines too ???

[Baj]

Yup, remember them at uni mate, stupidly high resolution desktops for 3d apps but anything serious had to be cli

[badgerx16]

I worked on UNIX for a while, that stuff was a bloody artform.

My favourite scene in a film - the bit in Jurassic Park where the female brat runs over to the main control console and says "Hey, this is UNIX, I know this". :smt046

 

It's funny how the Windoze techies that work for me won't even try to learn a 'proper' OS. But then again, I still think ICL's VME was the best mainframe OS ever created.

Edited 28 October, 2009 by badgerx16

[Smirking_Saint]

LoL

 

I remember when i first had to start using it, for some reason a company my old work supplied wanted these old UNIX shells, SGI units i talked about, big red pieces of crap that apparantly where the dogs dangleberries back in the day and used to be used in special effects and what not.

 

Anyways, i remember being given the book and some commands etc to learn, this was about 4-5 years ago now but i was only young and used mainly in using XP. I put it on par with the maths i am learning currently in my degree !!

 

One wrong character on a 3 line long command and you had ****ed it up !!!!!!

[badgerx16]

but anything serious had to be cli

 

Still the best way to manage ICT kit, be it servers, workstations, routers, or firewalls. No GUI, no mouse, just white text on a black background.

[badgerx16]

One wrong character on a 3 line long command and you had ****ed it up !!!!!!

Better not to try too hard with the touch typing

 

I had to point out two weeks ago, to three of our support desk team, that I was fixing PCs before they were born; back in the days when the main OS was DOS; command line interface, 8086 CPUs, a big hard drive was 40Mb, and a maximum of 640Kb of RAM.

[Smirking_Saint]

I am glad i don't work with computers any more !!!!

[Baj]

my favourite common ****up is type

crontab -r 
instead of 
crontab -e

[saint_stevo]

my unix is poor. Dont use it really day to day so at the moment its not likely to improve. Studying for vcp at the moment. Vsphere is very nice bit of kit

[SO16_Saint]

is ANY of the above in English?

[badgerx16]

is ANY of the above in English?

$ echo "YES"

$ YES

[Thedelldays]

Doing a course on it now using SuSE and Solaris.

 

It is weird when you are used to using windows

[Danny]

I used SuSE (9 I think) as a dual boot on my XP desktop a few years ago. It was okay, but the lack of Linux versions of things like iTunes meant I hardly used it.

[Thedelldays]

Is it true that my PS3 is a unix based system?

[badgerx16]

Is it true that my PS3 is a unix based system?

Not sure about the base O/S, but unless you have a PS3 Slim you certainly can add LINUX as an alternative boot option, so that you can use the console as a PC.

[mdearlove]

Use linux daily as my work desktop OS. Also use UNIX daily as everything I teach is Solaris or AIX based. Who needs a graphical desktop when you can just use putty and CLI

[JackFrost]

Anyone?

 

If so, what do you reckon?

 

Depends what you wanna use it for.

 

It's far less user friendly than Windows but if your a programmer it's infinitely more times easier to experiement with.