Poll: What is your primary *nix distro on your home machine? • Hacker News Board

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

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Post by adrinavarro » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 1:29 AM UTC

Once used Ubuntu for desktop (I loved it, but my old laptop eventually died).

Right now, OSX for desktop (I just use a laptop that I always keep with me, no multiple computers, just a single one!). And Debian for headless machines / web servers and so on. I really love it.

(I also have to deal with "degradated" Windows installations at home, so every computer keeps its factory OS with a good security policy, much easier to re-install from zero)

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

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Post by uggedal » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 1:39 AM UTC

lamnk wrote: post #32

Avshalom wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Arch

Same here, i use Arch fulltime on my laptop

Arch Linux here as well. On my netbook, laptop, and htpc,

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

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Post by wglb » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 1:50 AM UTC

codedivine wrote: post #22

wglb wrote: 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 :) ?

You might call it that. Not very pretty, but workhorses are 64 bit athalons, some dual core, low cost.

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

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Post by wglb » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 1:51 AM UTC

cperciva wrote: post #23

wglb wrote: 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?

1. My startup project 2. Not sure what you mean. No database involved, logic boxes each have different function, cluster is strictly compute.

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

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Post by wglb » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 1:52 AM UTC

tdm911 wrote: post #28

wglb wrote: 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?

Well vm won't work as they are all 100% or 200% cpu when working.

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

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Post by mhansen » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 1:53 AM UTC

Cygwin

(None/Windows isn't really accurate for me - I have a POSIX-compliant emulation layer on top of Windows)

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

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Post by chipsy » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 1:53 AM UTC

figital wrote: post #29

Crunchbang

I'm typing this from #! right now. It's nice if you are looking for a lighter Ubuntu-based desktop, though I still ended up pulling down 7 gigabytes of software once I went through all the packages I wanted. That's a number that borders on "inconceivably large."

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

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Post by jamesbritt » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 1:55 AM UTC

Kubuntu for main development, on my laptop; Vista on the main PC thing; Snow Leopard on the Mac Mini for when I have to do Mac dev or testing.

I've a C64 in the closet, too. Should bust that out, see if it still boots.

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

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Post by grendel » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 2:06 AM UTC

The main server at home is debian. i have one desktop box and the tiny vaio running ubuntu. recently being hacking obj-c for the iphone so osx has become my main desktop. have been considering switching to opensolaris for my server.

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

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Post by Micand » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 2:20 AM UTC

I ran Gentoo from 2003 to 2007 -- I credit it with opening my eyes to how simple and elegant *nix is. When I got tired of monthly upgrades taking six to twelve hours on each of my four systems (including twenty to forty minutes at the console for each, running various commands and fixing things that inevitably broke), I switched to Debian Sid. When it (unsurprisingly) proved too unstable, I moved to Ubuntu, and have remained with it ever since. I don't always get to play with the latest shiny toys, but I'm amply compensated by weekly upgrades that take no more than sixty seconds. I'm glad that I gained a more thorough understanding of my system's workings through Gentoo, but I find Ubuntu lets me focus my attention on tasks more interesting than system administration.