Hey, I'm new to this place. So basically this thread is about Linux distributions. What are your favourites?
Right now, I'm using Arch Linux and XFCE as a desktop. For my shell, I'm using oh-my-zsh, though.
Hey, I'm new to this place. So basically this thread is about Linux distributions. What are your favourites?
Right now, I'm using Arch Linux and XFCE as a desktop. For my shell, I'm using oh-my-zsh, though.
Hey, I'm new to this place. So basically this thread is about Linux distributions. What are your favourites?I prefer Ubuntu 14.04 but I run it as a server.
Right now, I'm using Arch Linux and XFCE as a desktop. For my shell, I'm using oh-my-zsh, though.
Hey, I'm new to this place. So basically this thread is about Linux distributions. What are your favourites?
Right now, I'm using Arch Linux and XFCE as a desktop. For my shell, I'm using oh-my-zsh, though.
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Hey, I'm new to this place. So basically this thread is about Linux distributions. What are your favourites?I use iMac but in a virtual box, my flavour of Linux is Ubuntu.
Currently, I like Mint Linux (particularly since it includes the Cinnamon desktop UI by default). Also, OpenSUSE (formerly just SUSE) has consistently been a favorite of mine for its included packages and ease of configuration.
Hey, I'm new to this place. So basically this thread is about Linux >distributions. What are your favourites?
Right now, I'm using Arch Linux and XFCE as a desktop. For my shell, I'm >using oh-my-zsh, though.
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Hey, I'm new to this place. So basically this thread is about Linux distributions. What are your favourites?
Right now, I'm using Arch Linux and XFCE as a desktop. For my shell, I'm using oh-my-zsh, though.
XUCAEN wrote to MAXELL <=-
I used Debian for a long time starting with potato. A few years ago I tried Ubuntu, which is basically a pre configured Debian and I liked
it. Then I found Kubuntu, which is Ubuntu with KDE pre configured.
That's the flavor I use these days.
VECTOR wrote to MAXELL <=-
The new 7.x has lots of differences I haven't been able to tackle yet,
but I'm sure they'll be "normal" to me soon enough.
Hey, I'm new to this place. So basically this thread is about Linux distributions. What are your favourites?
I think CentOS is also a good distribution, particularly for a server. I've used Gentoo a bit too, and I think that one is pretty good for its tweakability.
Hey, I'm new to this place. So basically this thread is about Linux distributions. What are your favourites?
Heard of Funtoo anyone? I hear that came for guys that didn't get along on the gentoo
project.. Tried it.. still like Gentoo.
Yeah, for the desktop PC I use Debian 8. If I need to use Windows, I have VMWare Workstation Pro 12 installed on that machine since for some reason I am not able to install Windows properly on that machine any more with all the 3TB drives (I have 3) installed.
A couple of weeks ago I bought a Western Digital MyCloud Mirror, moved all the files off of the desktop onto the NAS, formatted the desktop and installed the latest release of Ubuntu.
The desktop runs a lot faster now than when I had XP on it. For the record it's a 2-GHz CPU with 2-GB DRAM.
Thankfully there's a lot of documentation online as to how perform differnt tasks in Ubuntu. For example, I wanted to know if I could run iTunes on Ubuntu and sure enough there's a doc out there on how to get it to work. You can basically copy/paste from www into terminal to get stuff up and running.
Nightfox-- if you haven't used Gentoo in a while.. They have really made it run really great..
to wait for software to compile whenever I installed something. Sometimes that would take just minutes (for small software), but for other software, that could take hours.
Heard of Funtoo anyone? I hear that came for guys that didn't getI haven't heard of that distro before. I've always was partial to Ubuntu :)
along on the gentoo
project.. Tried it.. still like Gentoo.
Hey, I'm new to this place. So basically this thread is about Linux distributions. What are your favourites?
What I am running right now is Lubuntu 14.04 on this laptop. I was previously using Ubuntu 12.04 with Lubuntu desktop and recently reloaded. My laptop is quite old (an IBM Thinkpad from around 2005), but still has more then enough power to function as a desktop.
I used Debian for a long time starting with potato. A few years ago I tried Ubuntu, which is basically a pre configured Debian and I liked it. Then I found Kubuntu, which is Ubuntu with KDE pre configured. That's the flavor I use these days.
I thought it ran fairly well back when I tried it. The last time I seriously used Gentoo though was around 2004. I liked the software being optimized for the computer I'm running it on, but I didn't like was having to wait for software to compile whenever I installed something. Sometimes that would take just minutes (for small software), but for other software, that could take hours.Or Days!! Yeah tell me about it.. Ubuntu you can install things in a few minutes.
I haven't heard of that distro before. I've always was partial to Ubuntu :)
I have had a working Ubuntu setup KUbuntu for 5 years plus.. I hear your version number is the year you installed it.. or pretty close... Have never had a probelm with Ubuntu like Gentoo.. And I am way way behind on updates.. I don't want to break it things run great on it still...
got started in Linux.. Those Cd's Coffee Coasters. Compiling stuff is what got my hooked in the first place.
I have an old T42 that I love, Lubuntu made a huge difference in making it r acceptably, 10 years later. I picked up a PATA SSD (didn't know they made them!) and it makes a huge difference in overall feel, despite being hamstru by an ATA interface.
Ubuntu/Kubuntu/Lubuntu all have version numbers that are YY.MM. They're all supported for at least 9 months with patches. The ones with LTS in the names are supported for 5 years.
My IBM thinkpad which I'm using now (2005 X41 mentioned in previous post)
My favourite distro is Ubuntu. I usually run xfce as the desktop. I've got 3 servers running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Server, headless throwing out a bunch of VMs. The VMs are either Win 7 Pro or Ubuntu.
To go really old-school, my favourite OS is AmigaOS 3.x. I run Amiga Forever on a Win 10 laptop and it's where I go if I need some time to think.
What are the specs for your host box? What is the bare minimum configuration for a VM host machine? I want to run a number of VMs but my most robust piece of hardware is an Acer Aspire with an ATOM 1.2GHz CPU and 4GB of ram. I've got CentOS 7 on it, but when I run it with a desktop, it slows down to a crawl.
I've always been interested in alternative operating systems & environments. Sometimes I think it's a shame that some of them (such as Amiga OS, OS/2, BeOS, etc.) didn't survive commercially.
I've always been interested in alternative operating systems & environments. Sometimes I think it's a shame that some of them (such as Amiga OS, OS/2, BeOS, etc.) didn't survive commercially.
Monocultures don't promote competition and are more likely to suffer from a security standpoint. I remember in 1995 when we had OS/2, BeOS, Irix, MacOS, Windows 9X and Windows NT running at work; things were a lot more interesting.
What are the specs for your host box? What is the bare minimum configuration for a VM host machine? I want to run a number of VMs but my most robust piece of hardware is an Acer Aspire with an ATOM 1.2GHz CPU and 4GB of ram. I've got CentOS 7 on it, but when I run it with a desktop, it slows down to a crawl.
security standpoint. I remember in 1995 when we had OS/2, BeOS, Irix,
MacOS, Windows 9X and Windows NT running at work; things were a lot more interesting.
My favourite distro is Ubuntu. I usually run xfce as the desktop. I've got 3
servers running Ubuntu 14.04 LTS Server, headless throwing out a bunch of VMs.
The VMs are either Win 7 Pro or Ubuntu.
I had a HP TC1100 I turned into a print server using Ubuntu Server 12.04 LTS (force PAE) that I was able to trim the memory foot print to around 75 MB.
I ran Gentoo for a while, but maintenance was incredible. With Ubuntu, "apt-get update && apt-get dist-upgrade -y --force-yes" and I'm done.
I run Sychronet on a Win 7 Pro VM, mainly because getting doors to work on *nix
is time consuming and tricky. Efficiency and expediency is the words. I love
*nix, but I give the software the kernel it needs.
To go really old-school, my favourite OS is AmigaOS 3.x. I run Amiga Forever on a Win 10 laptop and it's where I go if I need some time to think.
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Re: Re: Favourite linux
By: Gryphon to Jay C. Theriot on Mon Jan 04 2016 09:44 am
What are the specs for your host box? What is the bare minimum configuration for a VM host machine? I want to run a number of VMs bu most robust piece of hardware is an Acer Aspire with an ATOM 1.2GHz C and 4GB of ram. I've got CentOS 7 on it, but when I run it with a des it slows down to a crawl.
I ran a Windows XP box/VM host - single core 2.4 GHZ Pentium, 3 GB of
RAM - and could run a single 384 MB VM in there. It wasn't particularly fast but it ran the BBS and a shoutcast stream.
Now I've got a Core 2 Duo, 3 GHZ, with 8GB of RAM and can run 2 1 GB VMs in it with little issue.
Your mileage may vary and more hardware is better. Not sure how much
L1/L2 cache is on the Atom processors.
It's definitely different from a work standpoint. As an IT person myself, I know it can be difficult for a company to support a bunch of different OS/hardware platforms (unless the company is willing to have a large number of employees developing for & supporting the different platforms).
Hey, I'm new to this place. So basically this thread is about Linux distributions. What are your favourites?
Right now, I'm using Arch Linux and XFCE as a desktop. For my shell, I'm using oh-my-zsh, though.
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Nightfox wrote to Jay C. Theriot <=-
To go really old-school, my favourite OS is AmigaOS 3.x. I run Amiga Forever on a Win 10 laptop and it's where I go if I need some time to think.
I never used Amiga very much, but I've always heard they were great for multimedia applications. What kind of projects do you work on with
Amiga software? And is there any Amiga software that doesn't have a
real equivalent in Windows, Mac, or Linux?
I've always been interested in alternative operating systems & environments. Sometimes I think it's a shame that some of them (such as Amiga OS, OS/2, BeOS, etc.) didn't survive commercially.
Nightfox
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Re: Favourite linux
By: Maxell to All on Mon Dec 14 2015 01:07 am
I've always been a big fan of Mageia on the desktop. That said I've had
to move away from it and have been using Centos instead on my desktop
and Fedora on my laptop. I'm using them because I use Redhat for work
and I can use the RHEL technology with Centos since they are basically
the same. Fedora on the laptop to at some get some familiarity with Systemd and some of the other newer technologies.
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I've been out of the Amiga world since before Commodore died, so I can't tell you anything about the newer versions of the AmigaOS, but the original Amiga was so well liked for video applications was it's hardware. Along with the video display being designed to output NTSC natively, the Amiga also had custom graphics processing chips in it that other machines of it's day didn't have. I believe todays machines are all so much faster that the benefits the original custom processors gave the Amiga no longer make a big difference. I always thought of the AmigaOS as a single user unix, it had the ability to run more than one program at a time way before either the Mac or Windows invented those capabilities!
Have you looked at the Haiku OS? It's a rencarnation of BeOS that's fully OpenSource, and available for download as either a live boot ISO, or a usb drive image. I've downloaded the files, and I'm going to try and get them running on my Mac with VirtualBox.
me, why do folks use systemd? On the Raspberry Pi2 at least it seemed to slow it down a noticable amount, while not doing anything extra.
My desktop computer at home was running Win XP and it was slow as balls. I wiped it and loaded Ubuntu instead and now the responsiveness is tolerable (not blazing fast but like night & day compared to when XP was running). It's a 2-GHz CPU with 2-GB DRAM.
The only problem I have is trying to get printer drivers for a Brother printer I have. The installation instructions are too convoluted.
My desktop computer at home was running Win XP and it was slow as balls. I wiped it and loaded Ubuntu instead and now the responsiveness is tolerable (not blazing fast but like night & day compared to when XP was running). It's a 2-GHz CPU with 2-GB DRAM.
Nightfox wrote to Vectorgamer <=-
It often seems like there's that one device that's hard to get going in Linux.. Not too long ago, I installed Mint Linux on my PC to dual-boot between that and Windows. And now that you mention it, I also have a Brother printer, and I don't think I've tried using it in Mint Linux
yet.
Re: Favourite linux
By: Timesoarer to Maxell on Tue Dec 15 2015 08:44 pm
My desktop computer at home was running Win XP and it was slow as balls. I wiped it and loaded Ubuntu instead and now the responsiveness is tolerable ( blazing fast but like night & day compared to when XP was running). It's a 2-GHz CPU with 2-GB DRAM.
The only problem I have is trying to get printer drivers for a Brother print I have. The installation instructions are too convoluted.
laptop I am using right now is an old IBM Thinkpad X41 with a 1.5Ghz CPU and 1.5Gb ram. When I originally got it it had Ubuntu 12.04 and only 512Mb ram. It was too slow to be usable. After switching to something other then Unity made all the difference. Unity seemed to run fine after upgrading the RAM, but I had come to like the interface I was using. Right now it is running Lubuntu 14.04 with no problem.
support, too. THe only problem was PAE support - the CPU supports it, but IB doesn't report it. Newer versions of Linux require it. You either need to st with 12.04 and upgrade, or do some tweaks to make the install work.
A package called fake-PAE works for programs that look for PAE once it's up running.
I use Linux mostly for servers (like my BBS! ;) ). It works well in that role.
I have several small systems - two low power PCs, 3 Raspberry Pis and a Banana Pi that run Linux. I prefer a Debian style distribution where possible these days (having converted from the Red Hat camp years ago). The Pis all run Raspbian Wheezy. One of the PCs runs Debian Wheezy (this is the IRLP node), and the other PC (which is my VPN router for a small block of public IPs) runs CentOS 5. This PC runs Windows 7. I find Windows to be a little more convenient for end user work. I also like Macs, though my Mac
Knight wrote to Vk3jed <=-
This sounds a lot like me. I've got a bunch of Raspberry Pis, a
BeagleBone Black, and even an ODROID U3. I run Linux on all of my
VPSes, and my BBS runs on Linux.
I use OS X for my desktop, because it's prettier and more stable than
any Linux desktop I've run over the years, and the developer tools are fantastic. It's the best of both worlds.
And then there's Windows... rather than run Windows VMs (which I found
to be a little painful sometimes, due to keyboard mappings you have to make, lag on the primary system, etc), I finally resorted to buying two really cheap (sub $200) Windows laptops. One is a $129 HP which is
slower than molasses, and the other is a $199 ThinkPad. Shocked at how useful they actually are!
In any case... I like iOS and OSX more than Linux these days, but I
still run Linux for all my servers (and I have about 15 right now).
Horses for courses. I like Linux on servers, OS X or Windows for desktop/laptop use, and iOS or Android for mobile devices.
In any case... I like iOS and OSX more than Linux these days, but I still run Linux for all my servers (and I have
about 15 right now).
Wow, I guess I am not as big of a geek as my wife thinks I am :) you win
Knight wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Now, what kind of ham gear do you use?
Knight wrote to Denn <=-
They're all virtual. I gave up running hardware in the house (except
for embedded computers like the Pi) years ago when I had racks in my garage and home office and the power bill was $500-600/mo. My wife
thought I was nuts. But I had been that way long before she came along,
so she just had to put up with it.
Mostly HTs, but I have a couple of IC-7000s (one needs a trip to Icom for repair), an ond IC-745 (backup HF rig), FT-736R, FT-9800, as well as a repeater (currently using an IC-2720 for receive and Kenwood for Tx). :)
Not to mention the EchoIRLP node and remote base controller (which currently controls the FT-736R). :)
And yourself?
Way to go. I used to have a bit of a power bill, but I'm now down to one VPS (that does everything external) and several Pis and embedded PCs around the house for various functions. :)
Knight wrote to Vk3jed <=-
Well that's a mighty nice collection. What are you using for the
EchoIRLP node? And what remote base controller?
Does anyone use the repeater? I'm guessing you have some decent
antennas outside your home? I'm in a condo community at the moment
(don't ask -- real estate is insanity here -- million dollar shacks,
etc).
And yourself?
I'm working with a lot of HTs too, but:
* ICOM 7100
* Yeasu FT-857D as a kind of HF backup / field device
* DHAP with DVAP for D-Star
* ICOM ID-51A HT
* whole bunch of cheap Chinese HT radios
* TNC-X Black that I built the other day (caped on a BeagleBone
Black)
* a whole lot of SDRs (varying qualities between $20 to $250)
* waiting on a pair of TNC-Pis to show up
* TNC-X that I built wrong (a few caps soldered in wrong places)
I'm considering picking up a Kenwood HT that has a TNC built in
(wanting to get on packet), and maybe a Kenwood mobile that has a TNC.
I can't put up any antennas, so HF is actually pretty impossible at my current QTH. Not only is there signal blockage from the structures, but the noise floor here is insanity. Hoping to move this year, preferably
to a house on a property where I can put up a tower eventually.
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