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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 (Super Mario), 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 Mythdora (Fedora 8 ) on my MythTV box.
My old main computer (mario) is now the guest room computer and it runs Debian 5.
On my print/file server box (luigi) 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 (koopa troopa), I had 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 occasionally use it to surf the net in bed or watch my MythTV programs in bed. I now use Crunch Bang Linux.
My old server (now dead), on which this blog was hosted, ran FreeBSD 6.x. It machine also ran 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 photography work.
My wife has an EEE PC running the default Xandros OS.
Your Linux reviews seem most useful to me. So, you get my questions.
H/W: ASUS (P2V?) M/B with Video&Sound, 1GB RAM, 20 GB IDE drive, 80 GB SATA drive (both drives have OS loaded), 2.8 GHz Pentium 4. Running Win 2K Pro. HP LaserJet 4, Microtek Scanner w/ SCSI-II PCI interface card; Microtek Trackball Marble+. Cable Internet connection.
Background: Retired geology prof. Systems mgr 1983-1990 on multiuser BSD and Solaris Systems for GIS; good C and FORTRAN skills. Comfortable with command line syntax and operation; new to GUI “Unix” interfaces.
Main desktop uses: Open Office, Photoshop, Web browsing, Email. GoogleEarth
Will add 2nd SATA drive, 350-500 GB, dedicated to a new Linux install; hopefully will not have to upgrade Windows again.
Need multi-boot options, ease of install, wide variety of avail. drivers, Free installation, bug free, avail free antivirus, Friendly user community.Wi-Fi support (Belkin & Buffalo Tech H/W).
So far, considering: Linux Mint, Umbutu, Fedora, SUSE, please recommend best of these or others.
Hi,
Since your reviews are very interesting;
We want to know if it’s possible and ok for you if we traduce your new reviews from english to french and post them in our website. Of course there will be a direct link, website name and even author name if you want in the top of the traduced article with a thanks word.
Thank you.
Yes, that would be fine. Thank you for asking.
nice post man but i wonder how your wife manages with xandros, it kinda sucks. I only used OpenSuse 10.2 but that was ages ago, since then I favored intel Macs.
Any link where we can get your linux reviews ? thanks
For the most part, just click on the Linux topic to see the reviews.