My Boxen



Since I do I lot of distro reviews, I thought it might be relevant to talk about what I run so you could get an idea of where I’m coming from.

Running on my main Linux machine, and my first intro into libre software, is Fedora.  I’ve been using it since the Fedora 1 days and I’m currently running Fedora 9.  I use this computer for surfing the net tubes, Blender, email, word processing, spreadsheets, and some games.  I’m also running Fedora 8 as Mythdora on my MythTV box.

On my print server box I’m running Debian.  I started with Debian 3.x and have upgraded every year or so when the opportunity presented itself.  I run this box headless and ssh into it.

On my laptop, I have Ubuntu 8.10.  I think I started with a 2007 version of Ubuntu and I’ve dist-upgraded ever since.  I mostly use my laptop for travel, but I ocassionally use it to surf the net in bed or watch my MythTV programs in bed.

My server, on which this blog is currently hosted, runs FreeBSD 6.x.  This machine also runs headless with me sshing into it.

I used to have 4 other computers running FreeBSD 6.x and 7.x for my render farm.  I compiled all the software on there and ran them headless.  I recently gave them away.

Additionally, I have a Windows XP machine which I use for playing computer games and doing my photoshop work.

My wife has a Kubuntu machine that I built for her when I thought her Windows computer was going to die.  And she has an EEE PC running the default Xandros OS.

  
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