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Poll: What is your primary *nix distro on your home machine?

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Re: Poll: What is your primary *nix distro on your home machine?

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I use the following in my home setup: 16 ubuntu machines, 3 OpenBSD machines, 1 freebsd, 8 centos (one headnode, 7 diskless compute nodes) 2 osx, 1 windows (oops-two; wife's laptop). Several of these are old recycled boxes, but every one of these has a job.

In retrospect, I wish I had done 8 of the ubuntu servers as freebsd.

Re: Poll: What is your primary *nix distro on your home machine?

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post #21

I use the following in my home setup: 16 ubuntu machines, 3 OpenBSD machines, 1 freebsd, 8 centos (one headnode, 7 diskless compute nodes) 2 osx, 1 windows (oops-two; wife's laptop). Several of these are old recycled boxes, but every one of these has a job. In retrospect, I wish I had done 8 of the ubuntu servers as freebsd.

Uhh, do you live in a server farm :) ?

Re: Poll: What is your primary *nix distro on your home machine?

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post #21

I use the following in my home setup: 16 ubuntu machines, 3 OpenBSD machines, 1 freebsd, 8 centos (one headnode, 7 diskless compute nodes) 2 osx, 1 windows (oops-two; wife's laptop). Several of these are old recycled boxes, but every one of these has a job. In retrospect, I wish I had done 8 of the ubuntu servers as freebsd.

That long list of machines leads me towards two questions:

1. What are you using them all for?

2. Vertical or horizontal?

Re: Poll: What is your primary *nix distro on your home machine?

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post #21

I use the following in my home setup: 16 ubuntu machines, 3 OpenBSD machines, 1 freebsd, 8 centos (one headnode, 7 diskless compute nodes) 2 osx, 1 windows (oops-two; wife's laptop). Several of these are old recycled boxes, but every one of these has a job. In retrospect, I wish I had done 8 of the ubuntu servers as freebsd.

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Re: Poll: What is your primary *nix distro on your home machine?

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Fedora 11 for me on my Laptop, Snow Leopard + Windows 7 on Desktop

out of curiosity, why Fedora?

I use Fedora for several reasons:

* Close to upstream, for early access to packaged software,

* Security is a primary concern: SELinux by default, Firewall by default, PolicyKit, Exec-Shield, Compile Time Buffer Checks, ELF Data Hardening, Restricted Kernel Memory Access, Stack Smash Protection, Buffer Overflow Detection, Variable Reordering, etc.

* Complete transparency of the distribution (including open sourcing all software they create for their internal processes),

* I prefer PackageKit/yum/rpm,

* They contribute heavily to upstream, as part of their process,

* They drive the development of a lot of the software other distributions use (NetworkManager, D-Bus, PolicyKit, PackageKit, ConsoleKit, HAL, SELinux policy, PulseAudio, etc.).

Those are some things that come to mind.

Re: Poll: What is your primary *nix distro on your home machine?

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post #21

I use the following in my home setup: 16 ubuntu machines, 3 OpenBSD machines, 1 freebsd, 8 centos (one headnode, 7 diskless compute nodes) 2 osx, 1 windows (oops-two; wife's laptop). Several of these are old recycled boxes, but every one of these has a job. In retrospect, I wish I had done 8 of the ubuntu servers as freebsd.

Are they all physical machines? Or VM's? Surely you could virtualise all of these on 1-3 physical hosts?
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