So who else is a Linux, BSD etc user?

[pllb]

Been using *nix since 1999...anyone else here a linux geek? And obviously I got the phone just because it's built on Linux =)

[chanster]

I use Debian unstable at home. Stuck with windows at work.

[G-won]

*Does the Ubuntu Hardy dardy, we like to party dance* (>^_^), ,(^_^<) (>^_^),

[mrcbrown]

I've been using since 98, I am a die-hard to no single OS, each has it's purpose for me, got a nice healthy mix of Windows, Mac and Linux... now if only I had a BeOS rig running again :)

[Crashdamage]

Linux-only at home since 2001. Presently using CentOS 5.2.

[tchort]

since kernel 0.9, first install from a whole bunch of floppies.

[jamezracer]

I heard about linux 3 years ago and have been running ubuntu exclusively since then, and in that period of time I've learned more about computers than I ever did running windows since win95

[71CH]

xubuntu FTW

[betawind]

Ubuntu Hardy user here...

[frozenfoxx]

Solaris/Linux Admin by day, Linux hobbyist/enthusiast by night. Using OpenSolaris, Kubuntu, CentOS, and others at home, Solaris 10 and Kubuntu at work, and I've used Gentoo, Slackware, and a number of other distros over the years.

Oh yeah, I luvs me da penguin. Even the wife does.

[Smalls]

Ubuntu and Kubuntu installed (running GNOME naturally). I keep Windows installed so I can develop in visual studios :p

[tokyomonster]

i use ubuntu at home on my server, and solaris here at work.

[ickyfehmleh]

I've been a Linux user since kernel 1.2.8, I forget which year that was. Every machine I use, with the exceptions of my company laptop and fiance's laptop, runs some form of UNIX: OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, MacOSX, IRIX, Solaris/SPARC, NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP/Mach, etc.

Remembering the location of "ifconfig" and what parameters to send to "ps" is always fun.

[rynosaur]

I've been a Linux user since kernel 1.2.8, I forget which year that was. Every machine I use, with the exceptions of my company laptop and fiance's laptop, runs some form of UNIX: OpenBSD, FreeBSD, Linux, MacOSX, IRIX, Solaris/SPARC, NeXTSTEP and OPENSTEP/Mach, etc.

Remembering the location of "ifconfig" and what parameters to send to "ps" is always fun.

I just installed Mint 6 on top of Vista 32, Vista 64, and Ubuntu 8.04 HH. I think it's the cleanest OS I've had in a long time.

I am thinking about trying BSD or Open Solaris.

[f4phantomii]

Proud linux user since 1992. Pretty much my only OS on my home PC since that time.

The only distro available for an installation was just a simple collection of ZIP files on 3.5-inch floppies called SLS (Soft Landing System) by Matt Welsh. I had it running on a mighty 486DX2 with 2MB of RAM and a VESA Local Bus graphics adapter.

Back in those days, absolutely nothing came as a binary package. You had to compile *everything* from source, including the kernel. I can remember when the big switch came to migrate from a.out binaries to ELF binaries.

I eventually moved on to Slackware and used it for several years.

In 1996 I made the wild jump over the Red Hat and used it all the way through Fedora Core 7.

About a year ago I decided to try Ubuntu and I'm still using that.

I'm not a giant linux fanatic, but I do enjoy it. I've got linux running on several hacked routers at home and I've hacked several TiVo boxes. Waiting to see what interesting things can be done with Android.

[joshtheitguy]

I'm running Kubuntu 8.10 x64 KDE 4.2 Beta on my PC here at work (VMware 2.0 installed for XP)
Kubuntu 8.10 x86 KDE 4.2 Beta on my T43 laptop
and A dual boot Kubuntu 8.10 x64 KDE 4.2 Beta / Windows Vista x64

No GNOME here only KDE

(The day I can play all my games in Linux will be the day my home PC will not have a dual boot.)

[divestoclimb]

I've been running Linux since '98 or '99. I took a break starting in '04 when I got a iBook and I still use a Mac for my personal "end-user" system, but my home server is Debian Etch running dnsmasq, netatalk, saned and avahi and I'm planning on building a XBMC media center on my parents' old PC. My router is running DD-WRT.

In the past I've also used Red Hat and Fedora (yuck!), Gentoo, and before getting the iBook I was running LinuxFromScratch. I've realized I don't have the interest in going through all that maintenance anymore so I run my Linux systems in "set it and forget it" mode--once it's working I don't have to touch it anymore except running the occasional "apt-get update && apt-get dist_upgrade"

With the exception of a XP virtual machine I kept from an old job I haven't used Windows on any personally owned computer since Windows 98.

[deserttopping]

suse since...idunno...'02 maybe. running opensuse 11.1 w/ gnome / windows xp.

my linux skillz are still sub-par. :(

[Dixie]

I've got Linux on one of my laptops, and hubby is running it on our server... but I still run Windows on another laptop...

[cesarcardoso]

Being a Linux user since 1996. Now my desktop, my laptop, my EeePC and my work's computer run Linux. And I even worked with FreeBSD for more than a year.

[inportb]

lol... there is no cure for you guys.

Uh yeah... I'm on KDE 4.2, Ubuntu Jaunty. haha.

[Logic]

Been using Ubuntu for the last couple years , thinking about giving Debian a go or bite the bullet and jump into Gentoo lol .I'll build a new PC before i give that a shot.

I have an old apple laptop I've been wanting to throw nix on but have never gotten around to .

[standroid]

Bsd freak since 96. Linux slacker since 95

[daveid]

I guess I have been running at least one FreeBSD box since 1998, off and on. I use it for my httpd, ftpd, sshd, nat/firewall, cupsd, etc.

[facelessuser]

Been using Linux for quite a while. Even worked on an embedded linux system during my internship while I was in school.

[CJ Chitwood]

I might as well chime in. Started toying with it somewhere around 2001 or 2002, didn't like it (old version 6.2 of Red Hat on a slow machine) and then tried Mandrake 8.1, upgraded to 8.2, then tried Red Hat 7.1 and Debian... Woody? Found Debian to suit my wishes most at that time, stuck with it ever since on my main PCs. I have a couple toy older PCs I never mess with anymore, and tried Ubuntu on one. Liked it enough, but not enough to convert (not that it's that different -- I use several Ubuntu packages whenever Debian doesn't offer what I want).

Now I only use Windows (1) at work and (2) when I want to muck with Descent3 in single player just because WINE doesn't impress and I'm too cheap to buy cedega or whatever.