[juneau-lug] Re: Different Distro

  • From: Jas <katmandu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: juneau-lug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 10:23:16 -0900

Chuck Hakari wrote:

>Should I try Mandrake, Mepis, Debian? Let me know. I'll keep a tally of 
>your votes. At the very least, I will know what distro everyone on this 
>list uses!
>  
>

I like Xandros Desktop OS Open Circulation Version 2.0.1 
(http://www.xandros.com/products/desktop_matrix.html) as a Wintel 
desktop replacement.  I like it enough that I spent 2 solid months using 
it as my only OS on my desktop PC at my State of Alaska job with no loss 
of productivity.

There were only 3 *minor* work-related tasks that I couldn't do 
"natively" under Xandros, and I was able to get around that by setting 
up a Windows box on the counter behind me and using Remote Desktop 
Connection for those 10-15 minutes per day.  As far as home use goes, IF 
LINUX IN GENERAL HAD BETTER DIRECTX SUPPORT (or more of my Windows-based 
FPS games had Linux ports, or ran better under WineX/etc), I'd be 
running some version of Xandros on my home PC's as well.

As far as server platforms go, I use either Trustix Secure Linux 2.2 
(http://www.trustix.org) or OpenBSD 3.6 (not really a Linux, but still a 
free-as-in-beer operating system, http://www.openbsd.org), depending on 
the intended role(s) of the server.

Hope this helps,
Jason


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