what do you use your linux boxes for?

[kalster]

Almost everyone here is fascinated with linux and installing it


what do you use it for?



p.s: Not a linux hater, i use solaris all day at work for development (vi > *)

 

[MournSanity]

I don't use Linux anymore. Remind me to try it out in 5 years when it might actually be useful for anything other than running a server.

 

[Crusty]

Everything

 

[MacBaine]

Linux is only good for developement, servers, etc... not much practical use as a desktop OS. 90% of the people on these boards who use it only do so to be able to brag about it. The other 10% have a legitimate use.

 

[Fiveohhh]

server and firewall

 

[Fiveohhh]

Originally posted by: MacBaine
Linux is only good for developement, servers, etc... not much practical use as a desktop OS. 90% of the people on these boards who use it only do so to be able to brag about it. The other 10% have a legitimate use.

My grandparents computer uses it so does a few friends of mine. Anyone who checks email and surfs the web has a legitimate use for it.

 

[Kadarin]

Use it for pretty much everything.. I'm posting from it now.

 

[Salvador]

Mine is presently a door stop because I haven't had the time to sit down and learn Linux yet.

Sal

 

[dighn]

for messing around with. so pretty much useless

all my development tools, office apps, games etc are all windows apps.

 

[atomstryker]

Haven't installed it yet at home. At school- thin client network

 

[MikePanic]

i was thinking of setting up an old pII computer w/ a large (or several large) hdd's in them and installing red-hat just to use it as a home data storage.... im a digital photographer, so i have gigs upon gigs of images..... and linux just stays up much longer then windows w/out rebooting...


but honestly... im in no hurry for that either

if my ISP allowed me to host from my house id be all over a linux box as a web/ftp server

 

[alkemyst]

pR0n server.

 

[Infohawk]

I use linux for my desktop.

My presario 700 laptop has a problem that MS is not interested in working around. Of course, linux deals with the problem and works around it. So basically my system crashes in XP (which is stable on other systems I realize) but works beautifully on linux. The linux desktop has really improved lately. Gnome 2.4 (haven't tried 2.6) is really good for everyday use.

 

[GhettoFob]

mine is primarily a file server and mythtv computer, I also use it for irc, chat and web browsing

 

[Fiveohhh]

Originally posted by: GhettoFob
mine is primarily a file server and mythtv computer, I also use it for irc, chat and web browsing

how hard was mythtv to setup, I have an extra pc thinking of setting up with it.

 

[minendo]

I just look at them and chant "FU Bill."

I use my WinXP machine for everything.

 

[acemcmac]

research. I am trying desperately to learn the routing parts of the kernel to develop an access stage, MAC level router that I can filter traffic from, while still letting downstream clients get their addresses from an upstream server on the distribution level...

 

[halik]

Well lets see:

Gentoo / 2.6.4 for main machine ... i do just about everything on that
Gentoo / 2.6.2 for my lappy... mostly coding and school work
Gentoo / 2.4.? on my sparc machine ... file server

and at work i've got gentoo with 2.6.4 for java development
and a Poweredge 700 with 160mbs scsi for webserving (apache and tomcat)...that thing FLIES because of the scsi drive

 

[SilverThief]

I'm a linux newb. Installed Fedora Core1 last weekend, and really like it. Right now I'm just playing around in it, trying to figure evrything out.

 

[her209]

I use it to compile code.

 

[vi edit]

Freesco.

That's about it.

 

[Christoph]

Pretty much everything except .NET development and taxes.

 

[FreshPrince]

Web server - apache
DNS Server
Firewall - Checkpoint
IDS

The only time we reboot these servers is when we're forced...which means the block lost power, UPS battery drained, backup generator died

For desktop...not too much, maybe for testing purposes, that's all.

Tell me the last time your Windows Server 2000 was up for more than 3 years... I know our exchange goes down just about everytime we do backup! d@mn veritas!

 

[Cable God]

Originally posted by: FreshPrince
Web server - apache
DNS Server
Firewall - Checkpoint
IDS

The only time we reboot these servers is when we're forced...which means the block lost power, UPS battery drained, backup generator died

For desktop...not too much, maybe for testing purposes, that's all.

Tell me the last time your Windows Server 2000 was up for more than 3 years... I know our exchange goes down just about everytime we do backup! d@mn veritas!

Tell them to take a look at Powerquest's (now Symantec) V2i Protector. We threw everything veritas out the window after betaing it. Hot image backups with 100% availability during the backup. They have a server and workstaiton version. If you don't need incremental backups, get the Small Business edition.

 

[burnedout]

At work: mail server, web server, db server with mySQL. Some really cool applications are possible with php/mySQL.

At home: web surfing, office apps.