[SGVLUG] Re: SGVLUG Digest, Vol 120, Issue 3

Tue Oct 16 12:08:15 PDT 2007

1. I use Fedora for server side and I use Ubuntu/Debian for one workstation
and Gentoo on my laptop.

On 10/16/07, sgvlug-request at sgvlug.net <sgvlug-request at sgvlug.net> wrote:
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>   1. Re: What distro used - SuSE (Swantje)
>   2. Re: What distro used - Gentoo (Christopher Smith)
>   3. online video Eclipse tutorial (Lynette)
>   4. Re: What distro used - Mandriva (David Lawyer)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 14:46:46 -0700
> From: Swantje <swantje at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] What distro used - SuSE
> To: "SGVLUG Discussion List." <sgvlug at sgvlug.net>
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> Why is it evil?
> I'm using it, too. (We used RedHat until they switched to Fedora)
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> On 10/15/07, Solomon K. Chang <skevin521 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > I've been using the "Evil Distro" ever since before it became Evil...
> since 6.0.  It
> > was the first Distro at the time to recognize my video card, and has had
> my loyalty
> > ever since.
> >
> >
> > Solomon
> >
> > --- Michael Proctor-Smith <mproctor13 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > Fedora or Mythdora(fedora customized distro with MythTV stuff
> preinstalled).
> > >
> > > On 10/15/07, Steve Morin <steve.morin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > I live debian my self, but use redhat at work.
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > On 10/15/07, Robert Leyva <mrflash818 at geophile.net> wrote:
> > > > > Welcome to the LUG, Eric.
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ...
> > > > > > My name is Eric Hammond.
> > > > > > ...
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Not to start a religious war, but what Linux flavors are folks
> using
> > > > > > these days?
> > > > > >
> > > > > I use debian, and did the switch to Debian once RedHat stopped
> having a
> > > > > personal edition.
> > > > > > ...
> > > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > >
> > > > > --
> > > > > "Knowledge is Power" -- Francis Bacon
> > > > >
> > > > > Robert Leyva
> > > > > mrflash818 at geophile.net
> > > > > AOL IM: mrflash818
> > > > >
> > > >
> > > >
> > >
> >
> >
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>
> --
> "Small things done with great love will change the world."
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> Message: 2
> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 15:44:59 -0700
> From: Christopher Smith <x at xman.org>
> Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] What distro used - Gentoo
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> Robert Leyva wrote:
> > Welcome to the LUG, Eric.
> >
> >> ...
> >> My name is Eric Hammond.
> >> ...
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> Not to start a religious war, but what Linux flavors are folks using
> >> these days?
> >>
> >>
> > I use debian, and did the switch to Debian once RedHat stopped having a
> > personal edition.
> >
> Mostly use Gentoo. Ubuntu some of the time.
>
> --Chris
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2007 20:17:42 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Lynette <lthein at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [SGVLUG] online video Eclipse tutorial
> To: SGVLUG Discussion List <sgvlug at sgvlug.org>
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> http://jonah.cs.elon.edu/dpowell2/Courses/EclipseTutorial/EclipseTutorial.htm
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> Message: 4
> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 00:42:35 -0700
> From: David Lawyer <dave at lafn.org>
> Subject: Re: [SGVLUG] What distro used - Mandriva
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> I use Debian but I never chose it.  About 10 years ago I thought I
> would install Linux on a PC someone gave me.  So I checked the
> Internet using my daughter's Mac and found a list of people who were
> giving away Linux.  One just happened to live a few blocks away and he
> put my HD into his PC and copied Debian Linux to my HD.
>
> What I thought was wrong was Ubuntu, with it's financial backing,
> basing itself on Debian without becoming part of Debian.  This weakens
> Debian.  Couldn't they have merged with Debian instead?  Ubuntu seems
> to now be the most popular distribution and I might be better off if I
> switched to it.  But Debian might be better off if I stayed with it
> since I email them a lot of bug reports.  Furthermore, they have
> someone supporting the LinuxDoc markup (linuxdoc-tools package), which
> I don't think any other distribution does and I've written a HOWTO
> on it.  So for better or worse I plan to stick with Debian.
>
>                        David Lawyer
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