Linux...if i..

[steliodj]

Hi there,

I would like to ask if anyone here use Linux ? If yes
what distribution..can you make all of your work using Linux or you windows too ?

Thank You in Advance
Stelios

 

[Rob Holmes]

Hi Stelios,
I have knoppix on one local system at the moment, windows xp pro on 3 local machines, Centos 4 on 4 servers and Red Hat Enterprise 4.4 on another box plus a further 2 machines about to have RHEL 4.4 on them.

Does that help?

Rob

 

[Arhiann]

I have two Linux boxes, and no, can't do everything I need to with them, yet.

 

[Chris H]

I used Linspire exclusively for over a year. And as soon as I get the damned wireless card recognized by Linspire I shall return.

An yes, it did everything it was necessary to do, and most of what I wanted to do, more so than windows in my case.

 

[GNU]

I use Ubuntu, its a good one for beginners, it picks up most hardware with no issues.

It allows you to browse and install software very easily accross the internet.

I use it for everything, Ubuntu ships with open office, image editors etc. Open office is not as refined as MS, but cant complain as its free.

The best thing to do is download a "live cd" NOT THE INSTALL CD.

The live cd will boot from your cd drive and allow you to try it out before you install it. The same go's for Knoppix, Suse and a lot of other distributions.

Make sure it is the live cd as the install cd also boots from cd in this way, but has an install icon on the desktop, click that and its goodbye windows, so watch what your doing.

You can dual boot running windows and linux on the same machine, which I do, but havent used windows since installing Linux.....

 

[KM-Tiger]

All Debian/GNU Linux servers, but Windows on all desktops.

Would love to change to Linux desktops but have 2 showstoppers - CAD and our Accounting program.

 

[confused]

kent, do linux servers have an equivalent of group policies? just out of interet, I have enough on my plate with vista/office2007, exchange 2007 etc etc being released lol.Havnt played properly with any penguins since redhat 6.2 (apart from a very slight dabble with some version of mandrake)

 

[AlphOmega]

I have a desktop on Fedora 5 a laptop on fedora 6 and an office server on centos 4.4

They are all connected by nfs and the laptop is wireless. The centos machine runs a webserver, ldap server, mysql server, print server, secure xvnc over gdm server and sftp network access.

Not one windows machine in sight and i feel my life is a lot better for it. Cant imagine using windows again.

 

[Mr.Digital]

I use Mandriva 2007, it's the most simple flava, I think its even easier to use than Ubuntu and Fedora.

And yes, I can do pretty much all the same work on Linux as Windows apart from audio production and graphic design, I only do that Windows based systems. I Can still play games etc.

 

[AlphOmega]

And yes, I can do pretty much all the same work on Linux as Windows apart from audio production and graphic design, I only do that Windows based systems. I Can still play games etc.

Do you use wine? Ive managed to get Photoshop CS running on Fedora.

 

[Mr.Digital]

I sometimes use wine but it's a bit hit or miss. Have a look at [SIZE=-1]Cedega from [/SIZE]www.transgaming.com

If anyone uses a Mac take a look at Cider.

 

[AlphOmega]

I sometimes use wine but it's a bit hit or miss.

lol undersatement, sometimes works, othertimes has you in tears

 

[Mr.Digital]

What did you do to Photoshop to get it to work, did you have to tweak anything?

 

[AlphOmega]

Photoshop 7 (and imageready) runs fine (for me anyway) and can be installed just by clicking the setup.exe.

Photoshop CS was a bit more hassle. Found this great little wine app called wine tools http://www.von-thadden.de/Joachim/WineTools/

It gets files from windows update to make wine more compatitble. But still cannot install photoshop CS2

Another easy setup tool for web designers/developers than need ie6 (wine tools provides this) but also ie 5.5, ie 5 and soon ie 7 is iess4linux http://www.tatanka.com.br/ies4linux/page/Main_Page

 

[Mr.Digital]

Oh nice one, I will try that.