Boris Sprinkler
Dont be scared
Who's running a more secure operating system?
Linux Users say aye
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ivebeenhigh
Well-Known Member
am on jaunty
Yup. Ubuntu (Jaunty) on the television box and the fileserver.
Shippou-Sensei
4:1:2.5
not at home but i run a linux box at work in case i want to do summin with it
Teepee
like livewire voodoo
well ok .. but tried to auto open a BT installation disc for wireless broadband and would not open.i tend to just put it in the drive and it pops up
Meltingpot
Living in our pools we soon forget about the sea
Mint's worth a try. It's based on Ubuntu but has more multimedia codecs and other programs like Open Office.
I'm posting from Puppy Linux 4.21 now.
I'm posting from Puppy Linux 4.21 now.
subversplat
writer of wrongs
I've got OpenWRT on my public wifi spot, if that counts 
Teepee
like livewire voodoo
Oh right, i dont understand why they do this. it detected your windows autorun.ini and tried to run the app under WINE.
if you're trying to use wireless broadband, linux supports this out of the box without using the O2 crapware, just plug in the dongle, set it up in networkmanager and you're good to go
Bob_the_lost
Elsewhere
Ubuntu on another machine. Trying to set up X-windows or whatever it is at the moment.
Signal 11
also programmed for conversational english
Boris Sprinkler
Dont be scared
What you talking bout Willis?
That's not Ubuntu's fault, it's BT's for only bundling discs with windows software.
There are numerous reasons why UNix based OS's tend to be more secure than windows mainly to do with the architecture of the environment.
At home I run a few Mac OSX instances, an ubuntu box, a debian server and a checkpoint.
Work day to day is on Windows XP, then a I have a forensic laptop running Ubuntu and some log servers running Redhat and a workstation running the excellent backtrack distro.
stupid dogbot
Haughty and Superior
Does OSX count? That's all I've got at home.
At work, I've got a Debian workstation and maintain and support a whole load of *nix machines of various flavours.
At work, I've got a Debian workstation and maintain and support a whole load of *nix machines of various flavours.
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
OS X isn't Linux. It's *nix, at a push (Unix-based but there's loads of proprietory code added).
I prefer to do "knowledge management" work - research, emailing, planning - and web design and coding on Macs, but I have a box running Ubuntu which I use for graphics and animation work, and Second Life. I also have an EEE 901 running Netbook Remix which generally rocks.
I gave my parents my old 2G Surf after putting Eeebuntu on it, which should keep them going for ages as it all updates itself and it's very unlikely they're going to mess with it much.
I prefer to do "knowledge management" work - research, emailing, planning - and web design and coding on Macs, but I have a box running Ubuntu which I use for graphics and animation work, and Second Life. I also have an EEE 901 running Netbook Remix which generally rocks.
I gave my parents my old 2G Surf after putting Eeebuntu on it, which should keep them going for ages as it all updates itself and it's very unlikely they're going to mess with it much.
Boris Sprinkler
Dont be scared
after a few years of fixing problems with my mums laptop running windows XP, I stuck ubuntu on it. Not had an issue since. AUtomatic updates and all she uses it for is internet browsing and some office documents (renamed the icons for open office) and email.
Meltingpot
Living in our pools we soon forget about the sea
That's great.
Boris Sprinkler
Dont be scared
It's a really interesting story isn't it?
joustmaster
offcumdun
aye.
three full racks of varying flavours.
three full racks of varying flavours.
dervish
if you flibble when you wibble, don't wobble
Been using Jaunty since it first went into beta. Been using Linux for years. I love the fact that if I do find something it doesn't do well usually before long someone has fixed it, or at least found a workaround.
Wills comments are, IMO, a perfect example of the biggest stumbling block to Linux adoption. People just expect things to work, and when everything is designed around windows they sometimes won't with Linux, usually it is fixable though.
Wills comments are, IMO, a perfect example of the biggest stumbling block to Linux adoption. People just expect things to work, and when everything is designed around windows they sometimes won't with Linux, usually it is fixable though.
cybershot
Well-Known Member
Kept trying different versions for years and just couldn't get along with it. Jumped onto Ubuntu from version 8.04 I think and with 9.04 have now totally got rid of Windows. (apart from a vista install inside a virtualbox machine which rarely gets used to be honest, especially as i finally found an app for what I was doing in windows for Linux, which was highly illegal, so I won't go into! 
Although can't get over how well Vista still runs inside a VM considering I only allocated it 512MB but it has only had two other apps installed ontop of the main OS install)
Although can't get over how well Vista still runs inside a VM considering I only allocated it 512MB but it has only had two other apps installed ontop of the main OS install)
fractionMan
Custom Title
Aye.
I'm on ubuntu at work.
I'm on ubuntu at work.
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