[sjn]

Fedora Rawhide here - keeps things interesting...

[EdF]

Libranet distribution of Debian. Can't beat the Debian packaging system.

[Keith_McClary]

On my Cyrix Winchip 200 I'm running

version 1.4 "LUMUMBA" from
RASTASOFT

This is Rasta software
$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', '
')Jah Rastafari Livity bless our Freedom! This is free software, you
should share it for the good of yourself and your people, respect
others and let them express, be free and let others be free. Live long
and prosper in Peace!
...
The roots of Rasta culture can be found in Resistance to slavery. This
software is not a business. This software is free as of speech and is
one step in the struggle for Redemption and Freedom. This software is
dedicated to the memory of Patrice Lumumba, Marcus Garvey, Marthin
Luther King, Steve Biko, Walter Rodney, Malcom X, Mumia Abu Jamal, and
all those who still resist to slavery, racism and oppression, who still
fight imperialism and seek an alternative to the egemony of capitalism
in our World.

Hic Sunt Leones.
And much Blessings in Jah Luv to All Those who still Resist.
Selah.
jrml

[rushdy]

Gentoo as well Hello to the other gentoo users!

>> For those of you who picked gentoo-- How much do your prefer that flavor and or is it the only flava you have ever known

Edit:
I've used gentoo, suse, redhat (but not fedora), some bsds and things like that. Got to say I prefer gentoo, but I'm not intollerant of other OSes

[DigitalCubano]

Mandrake on the home PC. Ubuntu on my laptop. Debian on my lab server. I used to run around with a Featherlinux CD and a USB stick containing all of my work so that I could be uber-portable. Also used Redhat for a while.

Linux rocks...I'd never willingly go back to Win-"dohs!". The only thing I miss is Flight Simulator.

[Aaron]

Since you guys started this thread...

I'm having interoperability issues between OOffice & MS Office.

Any wisdom there?

All my clients are Windows... so I kinda have to be as well.

But server side is all Fedora... 3 hosted so far.

[animal]

running debian-unstable here,
these results are a little interesting - in the "real world", mac/linux don't really have more than 10% of home domination...

ms office / oo can be a nightmare... even MS office -> ms office different versions can be trouble...

[leal]

Currently running Mandriva Linux release 2006.0 (Official) for i586 but with a new kernel: $this->bbcode_second_pass_code('', 'Linux ardbeg 2.6.14.3 #3 SMP Wed Nov 30 09:13:04 CET 2005 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.00GHz unknown GNU/Linux')

[seldom_seen]

Darwin or FreeLSD for me.

[seldom_seen]

oops! make that FreeBSD.

[leal]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('seldom_seen', 'D')arwin or FreeLSD for me.

[hoplite]

My buddy works for MS in Redmond- he says they just got memos indicating that MS is considering "restructuring"... He says many people are being offered CSR positions (Customer Service reps.) for lower wages- if they refuse, that means termination (but your not, technically being laid off because you refused to work- how clever!).

[lateStarter]

Makes sense from a bean counter POV. Use the SW developers who wrote the code to explain how to use it, while hiring people in India and elsewhere to write the next version of the code at 1/4 the price.

Not sure I would want to talk with a disgruntled (and now lower payed) CSR/former developer about how to use a feature or help with a work-around to some sw bug... but, I'm sure the uncooperative ones will quickly be weeded out. Remember, all those calls are recorded for 'quality assurance' purposes.

[FoxV]

Such restructuring is common for Microsoft. A few years ago they "Restructured" the sale quotas up by a factor of 3 (a totaly unrealistic goal).

"If you don't like the new quotas you can always quit"
but Microsoft has never laid-off an employee, so its all good

[uNkNowN ElEmEnt]

not true. My Uncle Jim used to work for MS. He was a high mucky-muck and went over to Gates house for dinner a few times. He (and a few others) got laid off a couple years ago.

[cube]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('uNkNowN ElEmEnt', 'n')ot true. My Uncle Jim used to work for MS. He was a high mucky-muck and went over to Gates house for dinner a few times. He (and a few others) got laid off a couple years ago.

[Novus]

I have a Dual Boot system with Windows98 on hda1 and SuSe Linux on hda2.

[smiley]

Still win 98 here. Just bought a new processor, mainboard and memory, and didn't want to waste all that extra speed on win 2k, so I didn't bother to upgrade.

I actually hate windows and would prefer Linux or Mac OS, but I have to be able to start up a terminal session from here. My company works with 2003 but the added custom security stuff refuses to accept anything but windows based systems, so I'm forced to use widows.

However one of my computers is in need of replacement, so I'm thinking of a G5 Quad.

[Doly]

Double boot gives you the best of both worlds. Windows XP and Knoppix is my choice.