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 plinkplonk » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 11:57 AM UTC

Interesting to see that there are as many Ubuntu installs as OSX.

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

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Post by kamme » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 12:16 PM UTC

I use slitaz mainly, works great and fast... Smallest distro I know that is still very usefull (better then dsl imho).

I also have an ubuntu laptop, still running 8.10 but I'll be upgrading soon. And my main machine is a macbook running X.6.

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

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Post by khingebjerg » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 12:39 PM UTC

Arch on my netbook, quad core workstation and my Lenovo X300. Simplicity at its best.

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

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Post by mahmud » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 1:31 PM UTC

bediger wrote: post #2

Slackware.

Slackware 12 here, on 3 machines.

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

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Post by coolestuk » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 1:46 PM UTC

I used OS X for about 7 years, but finally decided to give up on the Apple Tax. I bought the first refurbished laptop that met my specs (cheap, lots of ram) and installed Mandriva (as I'd read that it would enable me to use my Windows Mobile phone as my network connection).

I hadn't used Mandriva for many years (although I'd used Fedora, CentOS, Suse, Ubuntu in those years). I've been very impressed by Mandriva laptop in the last 3 months or so.

And to buy an Apple laptop with the same screen size and ram would have cost as much as 6 of these el cheapo laptops.

I can't think of anything I've missed from my powerbook in the last few months. And I could always install OS X inside a VM if I really needed it.

Can't see myself ever going back to Apple now (although I've still got 4 macs around the house, it's just that I don't use them any more).

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

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Post by nailer » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 3:55 PM UTC

I use os x as a desktop, but use ubuntu in a vm as macports is ghetto.

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

#97

Post by reed » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 6:16 PM UTC

Slackware on them all.

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

#98

Post by djcapelis » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 8:02 PM UTC

paulbaumgart wrote: post #81

djcapelis wrote: post #75

Exherbo

How's it treating you? Sounds like a good distro for learning a little about Linux. And welcome to HN. :)

It's pleasant. Rough around the edges of course, but it's moving fast.

And thanks, was lurking for a bit and then finally realized it was past time I created an account.

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

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Post by rufugee » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 9:01 PM UTC

wglb wrote: post #43

codedivine wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

I used to live like you, but with the onset of virtualization dramatically reduced my power consumption and green footprint with Xen and VMWare.

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

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Post by enneff » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 9:48 PM UTC

ilyak wrote: post #82

enneff wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I grew up on Slackware, but I'd argue that today FreeBSD (ie, a "real Unix") is a better option (mostly for its quality documentation and sane organisation).

Not until they fix their default vim configuration. Arrows, pgup/pgdown, home/end should work out of box in both modes.

Or you could stop being childish and use the correct keys for navigation.