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[DnetMHZ]

Anyone who is running gentoo linux lets hear what you doing with it.

I have 3 servers at home running Gentoo (all rock solid/stable)

Server 1

Beast: Main file/web server

Running Samba (144 gigs of files)
Apache

Server 2

Ozzy: Backup file server

Samba (37 gigs of files)
Apache

Server 3

Merlin: test server

Samba
Apache
various garbage that I'm trying out

DnetMHZ

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

hate to rain on your parade, but any other distro or os can do those exact same things

 

[DnetMHZ]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
hate to rain on your parade, but any other distro or os can do those exact same things

Rain all you want.. I'm not saying that Gentoo is any better or worse than any other distro/OS.
Just trying to get an idea of who is using it and for what.

DnetMHZ

 

[pac1085]

I'm running 1.4_rc1 as my desktop.
Gaming (UT, UT2K3, Q3A, etc)
Development (c# - mono w/ gtk-sharp, c++ w/ qt and gtkmm2, some web devel - php/sql)
I do some other normal stuff like net, email, im, p2p, irc, etc also.

 

[DnetMHZ]

Originally posted by: Vortex
I'm running 1.4_rc1 as my desktop.
Gaming (UT, UT2K3, Q3A, etc)
Development (c# - mono w/ gtk-sharp, c++ w/ qt and gtkmm2, some web devel - php/sql)
I do some other normal stuff like net, email, im, p2p, irc, etc also.

cool... none of my servers have X installed so no gaming for me.. command line all the way

Nice.. keep em coming!

 

[agnitrate]

Gentoo 1.4rc1 here. Using it to do all of my Java programming and will be using it to do c/c++ next semester. Fluxbox 0wnz j00!

-silver

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: agnitrate
Gentoo 1.4rc1 here. Using it to do all of my Java programming and will be using it to do c/c++ next semester. Fluxbox 0wnz j00!

-silver

openbox 0wnz fluxbox

 

[agnitrate]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: agnitrate
Gentoo 1.4rc1 here. Using it to do all of my Java programming and will be using it to do c/c++ next semester. Fluxbox 0wnz j00!

-silver

openbox 0wnz fluxbox

Fluxbox sounds better. End of story

I've never seen openbox. Is it any diff or kinda like the diff between BB/FB?

-silver

 

[TheOmegaCode]

Fluxbox, forked of the blackbox 6.1.1 dev tree.

Features:
Implemented:
Configurable window tabs.
Iconbar (for minimized/iconified windows)
Wheel scroll changes workspace
Configurable titlebar (placement of buttons, new buttons etc)
KDE support
New native integrated keygrabber (supports emacs like keychains)
Maximize over slit option
Partial GNOME support
Slit dockap ordering
Other minor features

Planned:
Session Management
Windows/Tabs auto grouping
Windows Snapping
Configurable toolbar
Other minor features

Openbox, is a derivative of the Blackbox window manager, but it strives to have a more open approach to development. Its aim is to provide a speedy, slim, and easily used window manager.

Features:
Anti Aliased Fonts
NetWM Support
Highly Configurable NetWM Keygrabber
Window-to-Window and Window-to-Edge snapping
Xinerama Support
Several Window Placement Options
Workspace Warping
Configurable Mouse Buttons
Use of Mouse Wheel
Highly Customizable Style Engine
Windowmaker Dock App Support
Toolbar

For some reason, when I hear OpenBox vs Fluxbox, I think of OpenBSD vs FreeBSD and I pair OpenBox with OpenBSD and Fluxbox with FreeBSD. That's just me though.

I run Debian and OpenBSD as of this moment, and I do most of the things mentioned (except of course dev stuff).

 

[manly]

Originally posted by: Vortex
I'm running 1.4_rc1 as my desktop.
Gaming (UT, UT2K3, Q3A, etc)
Development (c# - mono w/ gtk-sharp, c++ w/ qt and gtkmm2, some web devel - php/sql)
I do some other normal stuff like net, email, im, p2p, irc, etc also.

How would you characterize open source C# development right now? Any idea how far away a 1.0 release of Mono is?

I've largely shied away since the free implementations will always lag MS .NET and will never have all the proprietary .NET interfaces (C# and CLR were standardized, but most of commercial .NET is not). However, a standard GUI API with native bindings seems appealing compared to Java's approach (pure Java Swing UI).

 

[Sunner]

Using it on two comps, my main computer at home(dual boot with Win2K) and my workstation at work, no dual boot there since I don't game at work

All my server related tasks at home run on OpenBSD these days.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

For some reason, when I hear OpenBox vs Fluxbox, I think of OpenBSD vs FreeBSD and I pair OpenBox with OpenBSD and Fluxbox with FreeBSD. That's just me though.

hehe, thats odd

fluxbox was forked from blackbox quite a while ago, they integrated bbkeys, and a bunch of popular blackbox patches (like the windows work-alike taskbar), and added tabs. other than that i dont know what else is hot about it. i dont know who the authors are.

New native integrated keygrabber (supports emacs like keychains)

hm, it was only a matter of time.. this has to be epistrophy, openbox's keygrabber. i wasnt aware that fluxbox was using it now. its miles ahead of bbkeys (which is what flux used until they (just lately?) switched to epist).

and openbox, it was forked from blackbox by ben jansens (x0r), who wrote bbconf and bbkeys, and who wrote (quoted from the blackbox AUTHORS) 'metric tons' of code for blackbox. openbox is (imo) the natural evolution of blackbox, blackbox isnt getting a whole lot of new features anymore, its just getting billions of bugfixes, but openbox is chugging along with tons of (*useful*) new features.

the question isnt 'why use openbox?', but it is 'why use blackbox?'

but i guess if you are attached to the windows-style taskbar (i find thats why most people use it), or the tabs (fewer, but some), then i guess you're stuck with fluxbox



hm...anyways...back to gentoo