Linux users!

I played around with slitaz on a very old laptop after Kubuntu stopped working on it as it only had 192 MB ram.
It was simple and worked for what I needed.

 

What everyone's opinion on Bedrock Linux? It's apparently still in alpha-beta-not-quite-ready-for-prime-time-status currently, but I can seriously see a 'market' for it.
I think part of the reason why I find it so attractive is because it's a lot more than just a bunch of fancy chroot jails. It actually feels like one cohesive system.

I also have my eye on Cinnarch lately. Yes, it's just Arch packaged with Cinnamon, but I love both of those things. Especially if it has managed to re-simplify those install scripts... -shudder-

Also also, I'm proud of myself for still running Mint 13. I'm usually the type to say "OOH NEW DISTRO TIME TO UPGRADE EVERYTHING" but that urge just hasn't struck me yet.

 

Hello,

I've been using Linux for a long time now. Both server and desktop version. I've used:
- CentOS
- Fedora (From back when it was Fedora Core -- My desktop runs this)
- Ubuntu
- Scientific Linux
- Debian
- Mint (my laptop runs this)
- Mandrake (No longer available, has become Mandriva)
- Knoppix (carry it around on a CD as it is a life-saver!)

That's all I remember for now -- ironically this has only been a hobby for me! A LOT of volunteer hours went into learning all this.

Thanks.

 

I've tried out too many Linux distro's to list them all. But right now, I use Fedora 17 with GNOME 3 for my older rig (I don't think it sucks.) and Ubuntu 12.10 for the netbook (which works extremely well), with my gaming machine running Windows 7.

CentOS is a very nice distro, the kernel is extremely stable and it uses very little memory. Mageia is a very good desktop distro IMO.

 

Going Linux crazy, here.​

Was gifted an older Dell Optiplex 755 with a C2D E6850 and 8GB of RAM. Swapped the proc to an E8400 and have since installed ESXi, an Ubuntu Server VM and a barebones Arch VM that I'm gonna use as an SSH gateway to the rest of the (*nix) VMs on the server.

Future plans include installing a CentOS VM to replace the Ubuntu Server VM (will become my file/nfs-samba/dns/web/jack-of-all-trades server, need more experience with the Red Hat side of things), a pfSense box (wanna learn the real nitty-gritty of what pfSense can do), a Windows 2k8R2 VM for re-learning how to Active Directory things, and a backup server of as-of-right-now undetermined specification (likely Debian/Ubuntu or CentOS).

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So yeah. By the end of it all I hope to be running a total of 3 Linux boxes, a FreeBSD box, and a Windows box, on top of a Linux-based hypervisor.​

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Oh, and let's not forget that I'm still using Mint 14 as my daily driver on my laptop.​

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Watch me go, now.​

 

I will say that Linux Mint 15 is the best version I have used yet. I haven't even had to post any questions about getting things to work yet. Everything just did.

 

I have to Mount a distro on my virtual machine (want to try Hyper-V over Win8) mostly for ssh work and local 2D graphics, plotting and numbering...
I've used for more than a couple of years now Mint 11, Mint 14 seemed from my colleagues not particularly reliable, but now there is the new 15.
Mint 15 over Ubuntu 13.04?
I'm curious about the new Gnome 3 paradigm and the Unity interface though...

 

TPI, I would look into vswitches (ESXi's virtual switches) if you plan on using one box to SSH into the rest of the linux boxes. A vswitch will take pressure off of your physical switches by allowing your traffic on your VMs to pass through a vswitch and speed up your data transfers. I'm looking into building one now on my ESXi server, but haven't implemented it yet. I think you can VLAN it out too so passing data correctly on your network (depends on if you want to fuck around with VLANs or not). Something to think about.

 

Yeah, for sure; there's lots of features for ESXi that I'm planning on looking into and testing out as time goes. For now I want to get the VMs set up and doing relatively what I want them to do first before I start messing with other features, but vSwitches are definitely a part of that.
I see one or more particularly super-useful when coupled with pfSense, which is definitely the plan in the long-term. It'll also be really nifty since the machine I'm using has 3 NICs that I can take advantage of.

Thanks for the input! It could be potentially useful to have another ESXi'er to bounce ideas off of if necessary.
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I've heard lots and lots of good things about Ubuntu 13.04. I'm personally not a big fan of Unity, but I'm hearing more and more that it's really becoming a viable DE, so it's absolutely worth giving a shot.
I'm not sure why your colleagues think that Mint 14 is unreliable, I haven't had any problems with the Cinnamon spin of Nadia (that I haven't caused myself... ), and I've heard that Mint 15 is only improving on 14. I'd definitely say give either one a try!

 

I don't know too damn much about ESXi . im2smrt4u has his cert in it, he is the better person to ask. I wouldn't mind starting a thread on it to bounce ideas off of each other and share tips tho. Shit is powerful tho, I'm just only using 10% of what I could be doing with it.

 

Bumping this thread because why not.

I've migrated over to using Arch Linux as my daily driver. Call me a masochist.
Experimenting with tiling window managers, just because. Currently running Subtle, and I'm actually pretty happy with it; configuration is all Ruby based so it's super simple, but there's a *lot* that you can do with it. I'm also a big fan of having things exactly where I want them without having to physically move them around, which this accomplishes.

Also up to running 6 or 7 CentOS VMs on my ESXi box, each with their own purpose and functionality. Need to look into getting an additional hard drive for backing these guys (and my laptops) up.

Eventually I need to do a Gentoo install (not as a daily driver, but maybe as a VM or test server of some sort). It actually doesn't seem all that scary after the trials and tribulations of Arch. Manual dependency resolution and compiling everything from source would take some getting used to, but it doesn't seem to be anything I couldn't do.

 

I'm learning more and more that I'm lots and lots more effective at the terminal than I am with GUIs.
I've learned the awesomesauce that is the sed command and it's made things so much more awesome.



I will admit that I have phpAdmin running on my web server, but that's mostly because I am too lazy to remember the occasional SQL command to edit one property in one table (and also my SQL root password is far too long for me to remember)

Administrating Windows servers is actually pretty simple, especially if you don't have to actually create the AD schema and layout and topology. Everything's buried in a menu somewhere, the hard part is just finding it.

I've not heard of ansible. I'll have to look into it.

And yeah, Xen's not the only group that values the, I guess, 'quality' of Windows; you need a Windows machine to manage an ESXi/vSphere server, which is super annoying.

 

Yup. It's because in my personal projects I deal with SQL so infrequently that it would take me longer to remember the syntax than it would to just go in and do the same task with phpMyAdmin.

I could likely pick it right back up without an issue (and it's not like I don't know my way around the concepts), but given how infrequently I perform SQL related tasks at home I just don't bother.