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You are here: Home / Linux runs my life :-)

Linux runs my life :-)

Sunday, February 1, 2009 By kevmille

So I use Linux for most aspects of my tech life.  I only run Windows at school or work but nearly 99% of the time I am running Linux.

Yes, I can listen to music, watch DVDs, and edit Word documents in Linux.  Most of my colleagues and students do not even now that the documents I send them were edited with an open source word processor.

The only thing I cannot do is play my favorite games in Linux.  That will change in a couple years though as Linux starts to take a chunk out of the market 🙂

Here are my current Linux systems:

  1. Desktop – Arch Linux
    • Gentoo/Funtoo (OpenVZ)
    • CentOS (VirtualBox)
  2. IBM Thinkpad T60 Laptop – Sidux Linux
  3. Acer Aspire ONE Netbook – Ubuntu EEE
  4. Dell Inspiron 8100 Notebook – CentOS
  5. T-Mobile G1 – Android
  6. Motorola Rokr e6 – MontaVista
  7. Nokia N800 Internet Tablet – Maemo

My Dell Inspiron 8100 and Motorola Rokr are currently working at the moment.  I need to replace the power supply unit on my Dell.  This will be the third replacement.  I dropped my Motorola phone a couple weeks ago.  It bounced a couple times.

Both units will be running by the end of the month.

So how about you?  What do you run Linux, or BSD (that means you Mac guys), on?

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  1. David Sterry says

    Sunday, February 1, 2009 at 9:12 am

    Hey Saigonnezumi,

    Linux is close to helping me run my life. I run it on multiple servers and desktops in and out of the home. I still have XP and support all kinds of Windows users but hopefully all that will change for the better over time. I’m trying to get GNU/Linux out there to more people and have even started a podcast at http://trygnulinux.com Stop by and check it out if you have a chance.

    Above all, keep writing about free software!

    Thanks,

    David Sterry

    • SaigonNezumi (Kevin) says

      Sunday, February 1, 2009 at 9:45 am

      Thanks for telling you commented to my post. It got listed as spam so I got it in time.

      I will ask a friend to help me do some podcasts. Normally I am too short on time to write much about FOSS but I know I should find the time.

      Thx for the comments…

  2. TinhTruong says

    Sunday, February 1, 2009 at 10:30 am

    Here is my Linux systems:
    1. Desktop – ArchLinux
    2. HP Pavalion dv5000 – ArchLinux
    3. Dell PowerEdge 440 – CentOS 5.x
    4. Dell PowerEdge 430 – Fedora 7 (a little out of date)
    Maybe I’m a little luckier than you, because I can play my favourite game on Linux years ago, it’s Counter Strike 1.6 😛

    • SaigonNezumi (Kevin) says

      Sunday, February 1, 2009 at 10:58 am

      I want to get Arch Linux running my on Thinkpad T60. Some guys got it to work. Arch can run on the Aspire One netbooks too but I need Ubuntu there for my students.

      Lucky you on the games.

  3. pclouds says

    Sunday, February 1, 2009 at 1:40 pm

    Desktop – Gentoo
    Del Inspiron 640m – Gentoo
    At work I usually dual-install Gentoo, or coLinux/Gentoo if I don’t have admin access.

    Maybe I should install iPodLinux on my iPod too 🙂

  4. Tracy Reed says

    Sunday, February 1, 2009 at 4:18 pm

    My devices which run Linux:

    OLPC XO laptop
    Asus EEE laptop
    Sony Vaio laptop
    WRT54G-L wireless router
    OpenMoko mobile phone
    Snom 300 desk phone
    Snom 320 desk phone
    DVR in the livingroom
    Motorola Z9 mobile phone
    My desktop computer

    And I may still be forgetting something…

  5. SaigonNezumi (Kevin) says

    Sunday, February 1, 2009 at 4:53 pm

    Thanks Tracy. I forgot about my D-Link switch wifi access point which runs Linux as well. My modem may as well.

  6. Faemir says

    Monday, February 2, 2009 at 7:27 pm

    Desktop – Arch Linux
    Laptop – Kubuntu
    iPod 5.5gen – Rockbox (close enough? :P)

  7. SaigonNezumi (Kevin) says

    Monday, February 2, 2009 at 8:41 pm

    Rockbox?

  8. Janoš Guljaš says

    Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 12:39 am

    Desktop – Debian Sid

    Listen music, watch films, edit digital photographs, web develop and design, web and database server for projects in development, numerical and analitical computations, document editing…

  9. Amit says

    Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 12:55 am

    Running Debian Lenny on a PowerBook G4 500MHz…Runs like a champ.

  10. SaigonNezumi (Kevin) says

    Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 8:33 am

    @Janos: Have you tried Sidux? I like it but I wish Gnome was available there.

    @Amit: I am waiting for the Valentine’s Day release of Lenny. It will go on my laptop. This will be an Ubuntu killer if you ask me 🙂

  11. Janoš Guljaš says

    Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 9:58 am

    @SaigonNezumi (Kevin):
    No, everything works great with Debian, even with some packages from experimental due to prolonged Lenny code freeze.

  12. james says

    Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 11:48 am

    Everything… totally runs Linux. Laptops/Desktops/handheld/netbook/phone. For my wife it’s all MAC. Desktop Phone/ Ipod.

  13. SaigonNezumi (Kevin) says

    Tuesday, February 3, 2009 at 4:21 pm

    @Janos: That is nice to hear. I am still waiting for Lenny stable though and possibly use the SID repositories as well.

    @James: A Mac wife is not bad, one step closer to Linux 🙂

  14. jakswa says

    Wednesday, February 4, 2009 at 1:32 am

    Props for the G1, even if it is the first, rough-around-the-edges android phone.

    • SaigonNezumi (Kevin) says

      Wednesday, February 4, 2009 at 10:47 pm

      @jaksa: Yeah, I agree. I hope cupcake comes soon.

  15. Clarious says

    Wednesday, February 4, 2009 at 10:21 pm

    My systems:

    Laptop: Arch Linux
    Desktop: Ubuntu 8.10
    My last phone used BSD (I have lost it 🙁 )

    I still have to keep a copy of Vista basic so I can run a (pirated) copy of AutoCAD (or I will get kicked out of the university :P)

    • SaigonNezumi (Kevin) says

      Wednesday, February 4, 2009 at 10:47 pm

      @Clarious: You lost your iPhone?

  16. Clarious says

    Wednesday, February 4, 2009 at 10:49 pm

    @SaigonNezume: Yeah, got stolen in my university (again…) I guess I have no luck with cell phone, so I won’t buy another one. Well, at least I have greater freedom 😛

  17. SaigonNezumi (Kevin) says

    Wednesday, February 4, 2009 at 10:53 pm

    @Clarious: Too bad. I have been lucky, nobody ever stoled my cell phones but I did have one attempt. A xe om knocked my phone unto the ground nearly 5 years ago.

  18. Hieu says

    Monday, February 9, 2009 at 7:48 pm

    Wow that’s hell of a list.
    This website is also hosted in Linux? That might be another “Linux” for you.

    When Adobe Suite can runs on Linux, then I might think about living Windows. Mac is kinda expensive…

  19. SaigonNezumi (Kevin) says

    Tuesday, February 10, 2009 at 8:04 pm

    @Hieu: Yeah and I forgot about my server in QTSC which runs SLED. A second one will be there later this week.

    You can use VirtualBox to run Windows inside of Linux.

  20. Vikas says

    Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 9:20 pm

    Hey,

    I use Ubuntu 8.04 and interestingly I own a MOTOROKR E6 too 🙂
    It’s nice to show-off a linux phone 🙂

    By the way, have you ever tried connecting to your phone through
    telnet/ssh ?

    -Vikas

    • SaigonNezumi (Kevin) says

      Wednesday, February 18, 2009 at 10:14 pm

      @Vikas: I telnet to my old e680i but not with the e6. Have you tried the hacks at: http://www.motorolafans.com/forums/e6-general-chat/

  21. Vikas says

    Thursday, February 19, 2009 at 1:06 am

    Hi Kevin,

    After wading through a lot of forum postings on motorolafans.com, I was able to get ssh working today at last! I’m blogging about it right now.
    I’ll update the link here.

    -Vikas

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