Moving on to other matters....

**KINGofBLEH** · March 4th, 2003, 10:07 PM

I am getting ready to build my first Linux box in a week or so (waiting on hardware to arrive). I am also thinking about tinkering with OpenBSD in the near future. I am curious how many members of this forum currently run a non-windows OS from home and what is the OS of choice?

**Gollo** · March 4th, 2003, 10:57 PM

Running a dually here.

XP and RedHat 8.0 (only linux I found info on to install on my vprMatrix laptop)

**ilovetheusers** · March 5th, 2003, 12:54 AM

I had red hat 8.0 on one machine and it installed sooo easily.

It was nice for 3 days until I found I was totally lost and there were no apps I could run at all because everything I own is for windows and I don't know poopie one about linux so...

**firemonkey** · March 5th, 2003, 08:37 AM

We are doing some experimenting here with k12ltsp; a version of Red Hat that is thin client based, it is preaty cool (when all the drivers are working)

**CodeDragon** · March 5th, 2003, 08:42 AM

I briefly played with RedHat 8 and Mandrake under VMWare before putting RedHat 8 on an old laptop and running it as a firewall.

If I'd had more time I would have taken more of an interest - like ITLU I got annoyed that I had no apps to run on it - but I chickened out once I'd set up iptables.

CD

**MacGyver** · March 5th, 2003, 09:14 AM

I've played around with BeOS and Corel Linux in the past, but like my friends here, all the apps I needed to use were on the windows platform - and I don't expect my wife to use Linux either. Besides, I got a free copy of WinXPPro from MS, so why would I fool around with Linux?