Any Linux users out there?

anon40540444 · August 14, 2014, 4:41am

Continuing the discussion from New Adventure:

Just wanted to see if there are any Linux or other *nix users out there? What distro do you use? Can you write code, and how long have you been using it?

sasha · August 14, 2014, 4:44am

I have BSD and Gentoo at the house in addition to my OS X laptop and android tablet. I can write shell, python, perl and c languages.

anon40540444 · August 14, 2014, 4:45am

@sasha, what does K use?

sasha · August 14, 2014, 4:46am

Lol, it was a process to get her using OS X. She likes windows xp only but she can do basic things on OS X

anon40540444 · August 14, 2014, 4:47am

Are we going to see any more cool artwork soon?

sasha · August 14, 2014, 4:49am

I am suicidal a lot of the time lately, it is hard to convince myself to do art but I am trying constantly to finish a few things. Really stressed over loosing my house and becoming homeless next month.

SunGirl · August 14, 2014, 5:09am

I ran Ubuntu on my HP laptop for a class I was taking. One thing that was hard was I had to get a screen shot of the main screen to include in the paper I was writing on my Windows 7 OS. I forget what I did but I figured it out. It was a cool OS. I didn’t experiment with it too much, but I would like to in the future. I remember it fascinated me that I could boot up from a flash drive. I get into coding more later in the year. I’m really looking forward to it.

Clint · August 14, 2014, 1:49pm

I’ve been using Ubuntu (Linux) a little to toy with deploying a little Node.js and MongoDB code on Nodejitsu connected with MongoLab lately. I’ve got Ubuntu set up to dual boot with Windows on one of my PC’s.

I’ve been using Linux off and on for years. It just depended on what projects I was tinkering with at the time. Yes, I can write some code.

bridgecomet · August 15, 2014, 10:40pm

I was on vacation for a week but----what happened?

anon27867610 · August 16, 2014, 3:20am

Long time Linux user here. I started with Mandrake then moved to Debian. Tried a couple of other distros but always came back to Debian.

Lately I’ve strayed. I got into Bizspark and have been using Microsoft products for a while now. Windows hasn’t been terrible since 7 and my gaming addiction makes it hard to fully switch. Of course Civ5 is for Linux now so who knows.

shutterbug · August 16, 2014, 5:18am

Been using FreeBSD and then Linux since approx 1998. Started out with Red Hat, have also run SuSE, Debian, and Ubuntu. Remember running Caldera’s Open Linux back in the day. Currently in love with Linux Mint 17. Have Puppy Linux running on a system so old it puffs dust.

Code? Can hack a bit of PHP. Have also messed a bit with AJAX and JAVA, but am no virtuoso with any of these. No real interest in programming, to be honest. The closest I get to programming these days is working in Adobe After Effects.

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anon40540444 · August 16, 2014, 5:20am

That’s what I started out with - Red Hat 7 in 2001. I run Linux Mint 16 on my desktop and Mint 17 on the wife’s laptop. I’d be interested in the specs of the system that “puffs dust.” LOL.

bear371 · August 17, 2014, 5:14am

Centos all the way.

shutterbug · August 17, 2014, 5:40am

Intel Pentium II, 350 MHz, 256 MB RAM, 80 GB IDE HD, 64 MB video card, 16-bit Soundblaster.

Built this sucker back around '97 or '98 when I was doing my MCSE and it just keeps lumbering along.

10-96

anon40540444 · August 17, 2014, 5:53am

Nice. I think the most impressive thing is the size of the HDD considering the times.

Apokalypz · August 17, 2014, 7:04am

Lol, back in 98’ my PC only had a 2gb HDD, 32mb of ram, and was a Pentium MMX @200MHZ.

My first Linux distro was Fedora 1 back in 03’ or 04’. Been on and off Linux until 2010 when I switched to Linux fulltime. I moved between fedora and Ubuntu for a couple years and just finally moved to ArchLinux last year (or maybe the year before). Arch offers a LOT of customization; you start the install from a script and end up with a bash shell and package manager when it’s done. I now run it on all my computers (x86_64 and ARM).

Coding? I know the structure of C++ and Java, but don’t know many functions. Though my first ‘programming language’ was MSBASIC…didn’t get too far into it since I was only like 11 years old when I started learning it lol. I had dreams of writing a whole new operating system with it…yea…that didn’t happen nor is it even possible; can you imagine writing a kernel in BASIC!?

Now I’m learning PHP, JS (Jquery to start with), SQL, and HTML(and CSS). I’m using this web knowledge to build a site that let’s me run basic commands on my computers from my android devices’ web browser. So far it’s awesome and I no longer need to ssh in to do updates, backup, or reboot. I’m currently trying to figure out how to stream output from a shell command executed by PHP to a div in my page instead of sending the whole output at once when it’s done executing. It’s a challenge, especially since I only started learning these languages a week or so ago. If it wasn’t for seeing the context of code through examples on the internet, I’d never get anywhere.

I was trying to get my wife to use Linux, but she is addicted to windows because of her cherished (and vastly overpriced) adobe LightRoom.

anon37580328 · August 28, 2017, 1:11pm

bump

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I just wiped WIndows off the machine and reinstalled Ubuntu. I feel better now.

insidemind · August 28, 2017, 1:18pm

Anyone like Fedora? I’m using Ubuntu now.

anon37580328 · August 28, 2017, 1:20pm

never tried Fedora. I’m satisfied with Ubuntu w/Unity

shutterbug · August 28, 2017, 1:20pm

I keep my Windows installs in VMs, preferable to dual-boot. Except for the one instance where the software won’t work in a VM (but works fine on a straight install). Linux Mint is my preferred distro.