[KuerbY]

hehe agathos

if i use a nix system then netbsd...
openbsd is netbsd only some changes so...

but linux is more user friendly and if you use hardened theres no problem with security :P

[cornstalk]

w00dy said:

PS ports own apt-get and portage of other, lesser distros

What's the advantage of ports over portage?
Portage is just the ports system for Linux with an UI.

@Topic:

P3, 966MHz
768MB RAM
NetBSD 2.0


Laptop, P4, 2.8GHz
512MB RAM
Gentoo

[yamashita]

Currently using Gentoo on all my boxen.

Will be switching to Archlinux and OpenBSD/FreeBSD in the future though.

[-8-]

I've been distro hopping for a while, so i tried suse, red hat, yoper and went back to suse 9.1, each has its own set of pros and cons.
Thing is Linux has given me so much joy in learning how it runs, after this many distros i still feel like a n00bie. But the beauty is you can try LFS and build your own system (which is what i'm trying now - gonna take me a while, a long while, but i bet its gonna be worth it).

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org - for LFS

I use suse 9.1 (I'm Lazy and it does it well) on a 512 RAM box with AMD 2200 (lol i kinda defeated the purpose of what some of the thread was pointing out). I use VMware and use windows inside that to test on. I like Linux because it uses my hardware efficiently, its stable and there are alot of skilled programmers that work hard to keep information/programs free from cost. When I'm not testing windows I'm using Linux for everything else - graphics, chat, P2P, web browsing etc etc, it just gets better and better.

Oh yea, i also think the GUI looks real cool. (pfff i dont use it that much, it just happens to turn on when i power up, i think it wants me to use it, Ok, I'm lazy, i use a gui.... :blink: )

cool, i'll shut up there ;)

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[hks3207]

usch, on Jan 7 2005, 02:20 PM, said:

ok a hardware firewall is a suggestion, but i already have one in my router :)

go on guys *G*



usch

If u got static-ip ... why don't u start learning usefull stuffs such as configuring any kind of servers and learning how to improve the security on them ;) .. that's what i used to do before i had my static-ip taken off from me :'( now if i set up a bind server i would have to change the config file any time my ip change so it wouldnt work that good....

[ssj4conejo]

My router is based on smoothwall distro, 133 mhz pentium 1, 168 mb ram, 8 gb hd, two 10/100 NIC's. connected to an 8 port hub.

My main desktop machine is running gentoo, 1.8 ghz p4, 768 mb dddr, 80 gb hd.

GEntoo all the way!!, also got it on my pentium 2, 400 mhz, 256 mb, lappy,

Also on my webserver which is my xbox running gentoox = ).