Poll: What do you use with linux?

[Tim B]

i'm interested in seeing how many of our users use linux, and the frequency - is it your main OS?

[ 06. June 2005, 08:06 AM: Message edited by: Tim B ]

[Big Wave Dave]

LIVE CD's are cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[davidgl]

Sliced bread is no competition!
Knoppix 3.9 is out, too.
DGL.

[RayvenX]

I'd say my home computer usage is something like this:

Mac OS 10.4 - 75% (Web, mail, graphic design, music, other work)
Windows Server 2k3 -15% (Gaming)
Gentoo 2005.1 - 10% (Development)

[energyman76c]

Hi,

well, the only windows I ever owned was win95b. And when in 99 I got no driver updates for my tv-card and the system was bloody unstable, I just used the space for good and had no win-install since then.

(and do not tell me, how Windows improved. My sisters had 98 and ME versions, not very stable too, and friends of mine 2000 and XP and I see still no reason to get back to virus and spyware madness.. and I do not want to pay €€€ for premature software...)

[RayvenX]

It's a good think Linux is free then.

[Tim B]

Yep huge plus points! I'm slowly getting use to the way it works, partly due to lack of leg work on my part, few more months and i'd probably use my Mandriva install full time if it wasn't for a few minor niggles (does that ever change?!)

[energyman76c]

Hi,
>It's a good think Linux is free then.

it is even better, that I can download install isos and software without doing anything wrong ;)

[gymyforte]

New kanotix released!
Kanotix 2005-03 32 Bit Edition

Specifications:

* Kernel 2.6.11.11 with many patches
* Better compression due to Squashfs
* ACPI and DMA enabled by default (can be disabled with acpi=off and nodma respectively)
* i586 optimization - not for use with older CPUs!
* 128 MB RAM required, 256 MB RAM recommended
* Unionfs support (activate with unionfs cheat)
* NVIDIA and RADEON scripts work in live mode (like sudo install-nvidia|radeon-debian.sh)
* AVM Fritz!Card DSL support (PCI und USB)
* Fritz!Card PCI/USB CAPI support ? Please use CAPI ISDN Conf!
* Eagle USB DSL Support (i. e.. AT-AR215)
* New: KDE 3.4.1
* New: OpenOffice 1.9.104
* New: Azureus replaces Bittornado-GUI (not in Lite)
* GRUB boot loader for CD start - ideal for rescue in command line mode
* Memtest86+ Advanced Memory Diagnostic Tool in the extra menu of the boot loader
* ALSA 1.08 support -> works live and after hd installation
* AMD64/Centrino/P4 Mobile/Athlon XP Mobile detection with automated start of Powernowd
* ALPS and Synaptic touchpad detection
* Hibernate support when using swapfile with min. size of 1.5x RAM size (can be activated by get-resume-partition.sh after hd install)
* NTFS support for Poor Man Install
* fromiso=PATH/TO/KANOTIX*.iso cheatcode für PMI, good to use in combination with fromhd=/dev/hdXY (* is supported!)
* No kernel source is needed anymore to compile NVIDIA, ATI and many other kernel modules
* Captive can download the needed drivers from the net

Kanotix 2005-03 64 Bit Edition

Specifications:

* Kernel 2.6.11.11 with many patches
* Better compression due to Squashfs
* ACPI and DMA enabled by default (can be disabled with acpi=off and nodma respectively)
* AMD64 optimization - not for use with 32 bit CPUs!
* 256 MB RAM required, 512 MB RAM recommended
* New: Unionfs support (activate with unionfs cheat)
* New: NVIDIA and RADEON scripts work in live mode (like sudo install-nvidia|radeon-debian.sh)
* New: KDE 3.4.1
* New: OpenOffice.org 1.9.104
* GRUB boot loader for CD start - ideal for rescue in command line mode
* Memtest86+ Advanced Memory Diagnostic Tool in the extra menu of the boot loader
* ALSA 1.08 support -> works live and after hd installation
* AMD64 detection with automated start of Powernowd
* ALPS and Synaptic touchpad detection
* Hibernate support when using swapfile with min. size of 1.5x RAM size (can be activated by get-resume-partition.sh after hd install)
* NTFS support for Poor Man Install
* fromiso=PATH/TO/KANOTIX*.iso cheatcode for PMI (poor man install), good to use in combination with fromhd=/dev/hdXY (* is supported!)

Differences from 32 Bit Edition:

* Pure 64 bit system (besides OpenOffice)
* Without 32 bit chroot only very few 32 bit apps will run
* Fewer drivers, but important scripts for NVIDIA and ATI drivers work of course
* NVIDIA script installs now 32 bit libs needed for some games from 32 bit driver
* Different packagelist
* Vsync defaults to 75 Hz, please use vsync=60/85/100 as cheatcode

[energyman76c]

Hi,

sadly ALSA 1.09a is out for some time now and brings a lot new features (well one feature: dmix by default, so no sounddaemon needed ever again).