Ronald LeVine wrote: > Does anyone actually use linux instead of just doing installs???? We seem > to talk a lot about how this thingy is cool and that distro has a lot of > cool features. but, how many of us are actually using linux on a daily > basis without constantly futsing with it? > > Just curious.
The box I'm typing at right now is running Mandrake 6.1, installed in late 1999. I use it every day for mail, web surfing, and light sw development. It's only been booted twice since the wind storm of February 7th. My laptop is running Mandrake 7.1, which I installed a year ago or so. Our OpenBSD firewall has basically been sitting around passing packets for about eight months. I added some entries to dhcpd.conf in May, and installed squid in March, but aside from that it's been just doing its job since October. It's been up continuously since Feb. 9th when power came on after the wind storm. The home server, central-services, was set up in January. It's serving DNS, NTP, DynDNS client, Debian mirror, SliMP3-server, NTP server, and a few other things nonstop since Feb. 9th. It's running Debian Potato. After Woody releases, I may upgrade it, and I may not. My work box was running RedHat 6.2 from March 2001 through last month when TiVo engineering required all developers to use RedHat 7.2 or newer. It ran the same RedHat 6.2 image while the hardware went through several upgrades from a 600 MHz PIII, 256Mb RAM, 20 Gb disk to the current dual 1.4MHz Athlon, 1024Mb RAM, 30+30+40 Gb disk. This box is what I sit at all day long, developing software for TiVo. All these boxes get individual packages upgraded as needed. I apply security patches, and they all have a recent release candidate of Mozilla installed, but it's really disruptive to upgrade to a new release, so I don't. On the other hand, there are a couple of boxes here that exist primarily to test new stuff on, so those get lots of installation and disk wiping. My long term plan is to migrate most of the boxes to Debian, starting with central-services, so I can keep up with upgrades more easily. -- Bob Miller K<bob> kbobsoft software consulting http://kbobsoft.com [EMAIL PROTECTED]
