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Re: [Sheflug] Christmas
John Southern wrote:
> On Saturday 23 December 2006 15:41, Wonkey Donkey wrote:
>
>> Thats a lot of OS's John !!!
>
> I was/am a dedicated OS junkie and would/will run almost every single
> OS that is available. There are some 300+ Linuxes of which I think I
> have tried 200+.
>> From my own point of view, they all tend to blur into the same thing
>> with just
> a few tweaks. The real difference is the apps that you want to run.
>
> --SNIP--
>
>> Curious you mention Solaris is slow under Vmware. I have never had
>> any difficulty with it at all.
>
> Out of curiosity how big is your VM image? Mine is close to 10G and I
> am running it on a 1G Ram box.
>
>> Just for info, I received an email from Vmware this morning, stating
>> that there is a beta for version 6.
>
> Got that. It is the Workstation beta 6 and it does finally support my
> dual monitor GX400 graphics card!
>
> Does anyone else have recommendations on distros?
> Why do they use a particular one?
> What are the few apps that are vital to them?
> How can I move away from Konqueror and Kmail?
>
> Regards
> John
Well my Solaris is 8gb in size, split into 2 gb chunks, and all allocated at
the time of creation. Solaris did have problems using the more dynamic
approach.
I am a firm Gentoo believer on the whole, although the quality control seems
to have gone pear shaped the last few months. A victim of its own success
maybe ?
LinuxFromScratch is something I have been tinkering with of late. Very
educational, and I think with the right time and effort applied, it could be
used for something more than a learning tool.
Solaris is something I keep, but don't use in a production sense. Yet. It is
getting better and better with each release, and in fact when combined with
blastwave stuff, the only thing stopping me using it is the fact there is no
webcam/video conferencing ability. That aside, I'm a firm believer in it.
Right now though, I'm going back to building my upgrade system. I have a
Core2Duo Extreme sat here, as well as a BadAxe2 mobo, and the laptop I am
writing on is going to my nephew for christmas if I get it all sorted in
time!
Steve.
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