On Tuesday 04 June 2002 09:54 am, 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?
I do. We have 4 Linux boxes at work, 3 Mandrake 8.2, 1 Dachstein/LRP firewall.
The 3 servers are running our cvs system, documentation system, and our
in-house bug report system, plus database servers we use to test against.
All of these machines are old crap that aren't worth spit running Win32,
but they work just fine with Linux. Well OK, I'm running WindowMaker instead
of KDE because KDE doesn't run particularly well on any of them. We're a
mostly
Win32 office, but I sure wouldn't trust our source code to those flakey OSes,
though I have to admit that Win2K is the first usable OS in the series. Or
at least it's usable once Cygwin is installed.
Oh, and at home cron and X10 are my alarm clock and make sure my plants get
enough light in the winter months, plus I wrote a little script with dcop to
get Konqueror to fetch the weather every morning.;-)
J. Toman
