On Saturday 07 Apr 2012 00:03:49 Tim wrote:
> > Anyway, what's your favourite? I should add I mean for desktop use
> > rather than server use, but it's all relevant!
As my Sig says, Kubuntu on this box. I also have a Netbook which runs Ubuntu
and a for recent project at work we used a tweaked version of TinyCore to grab
the identities and versions of all the hardware installed on newly procured
servers and send the data (in XML) to a (Windows based) auditing tool on a
remote server.
I moved over to Linux when Amiga Format stopped publishing in the early
Noughties. I bought a boxed Mandrake distro, then moved to SuSe for quite a
few years and then to Kubuntu not long after it came out. (Mandrake was KDE
by default, so I've stuck with it ever since, apart from on the Netbook.)
As an aside, before Linux I'd previously been using a beefed up Amiga A1200 to
do fairly serious home computing, including internet access, and I was offered
a subscription to Linux Format to replace my old Amiga one. Going back
further, I started using my son's Amiga A600 to 'play around' with AmigaDOS
and do something other than the games that everyone used Amigas for in those
days (in this country anyway). When we got him an Amiga CD32, I bought a
plugin that provided a faster processor, more RAM, a hard disc drive and video
and serial ports. The serial port allowed me to connect a modem and I was
able to get internet access fairly early in 1994, using an archaic TCP/IP
stack which was set up by editing a config file, rather like samba is when you
don't use a GUI tool.
I still like the power and simplicity of AmigaDOS, although it couldn't stack
up to what can be achieve in bash these days. Sometimes, I wish that
Commodore hadn't had such a dumb management team, because the combination of
AmigaDOS and Workbench was brilliant and years ahead of anything on Windows or
Linux at the time. The Mac had a better desktop at the time, but there was no
shell at all, so you could only do what the GUI let you do. Apart from that,
Datatypes were introduced around 1992, which meant that apps knew what to do
with different file types without resorting to clunky mechanisms like file
extensions like Windows did (and still does).
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