On Tue, 18 Jan 2005 12:25:00 -0600, Banker, Craig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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> Just curious...
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> How (what for) do you use linux? (or BSD ;-)
As much as I can. Mostly just gentoo
I have gentoo on my powerbook and use it as my main desktop.
Also have a server at home that acts as my main firewall, filestorage,
and domain controller for my wifes XP box.
At home I have a dell that is used by my kids for games( though I am
trying to teach kaleb squeak ) Squeak is a smalltalk-like vm that runs
on everything! Was developed by alot of cognitive science geeks.
At work I have 2 clarkconnect boxes used as firewall's,
{http,smtp}proxy, dns, virus.
1 gentoo box as a print&fileserver used mostly for development and testing.
1 trustix box used as the main mailserver(although this will become
gentoo soon).
1 fedora-core2 box used for domain controling and talking with the as400.
2 custom embedded linux uclibc+busybox mini-itx boxes running asterisk
pbx for our phone systems.
Am about to try and replace a few desktops around here and see how
painful it is.
> What roles do you wish to see it in? (emerging roles?)
I would love to be able to do distributed crosscompileing.
I would also like to do something like this:
http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/stateless/index.html
> --> embedded ? I'm exploring using it in embedded apps (have not had
> the opportunity yet)
uclibc+busybox rocks!
> Do you see linux as demerging/waning in some areas? (which ones?)
I have no patches to submit at this time. :-)
