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 [deleted] » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 2:30 AM UTC

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

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Post by fpgeek » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 2:30 AM UTC

Gentoo on my laptop because I want the extreme flexibility there, but my official "home machine" is Debian testing/unstable because I wanted something more consistent that was easier to maintain.

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

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Post by NathanKP » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 2:32 AM UTC

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.

Sounds like a beautiful setup. What is your electricity bill like? ;)

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

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Post by joechung » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 2:33 AM UTC

I'll definitely give Chrome OS a try when it comes out.

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

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Post by compay » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 3:06 AM UTC

spyrosk wrote: post #5

Arch

I love Arch. They've done a great job straddling the line between minimalistic and easy to use. It reminds me (in a good way) of how Linux distros tended to work many years ago.

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

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Post by d0m » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 3:09 AM UTC

Arch too, I thought it'd be in the list : )

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

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Post by cperciva » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 3:17 AM UTC

wglb wrote: post #44

cperciva wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

"Horizontal" means a bunch of servers on a shelf. "Vertical" means a bunch of servers in a rack. :-)

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

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Post by kogir » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 3:52 AM UTC

aaronblohowiak wrote: post #16

cmelbye wrote: post #11

Up-voted for including Mac OS X.

it is POSIX compliant!

So is Windows with Windows Services for UNIX. It's available for Windows Server (2003 and 2008) and Vista/7 (Ultimate, and Enterprise).

I still wouldn't call it a *nix.

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

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Post by wglb » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 4:03 AM UTC

cperciva wrote: post #57

wglb wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

"Horizontal" means a bunch of servers on a shelf. "Vertical" means a bunch of servers in a rack. :-)

Restaurant racks, cheap cases, multiple levels. No actual server rack. One pair of servers in fact has no case at all, sits on hollow core door.

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

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Post by sielskr » Sun, Oct 18, 2009, 4:06 AM UTC

spyrosk wrote: post #5

Arch

At home, I run Arch Linux. Using it right now, in fact.