Straw Poll: Has GNU/Linux Replaced Windows on Your Boxes?
This is just a straw poll. I'd be curious to know how many people are running a pure GNU/Linux environment - SUSE or otherwise. If your job requires Windows, and you don't own the business, don't include that. Please include: <> Number of GNU/Linux boxes vs. Windows boxes (personal or SOHO use) <> Systems configured to dual-boot (only if Windows is rarely used) <> Any reasons why you still keep a Windows box or copies of Windows around <> Length of time you've been Windows-free Thanks in advance for your input. Don -- DC Parris http://matheteuo.org/ http://chaddb.sourceforge.net/ "Hey man, whatever pickles your file!"
This is just a straw poll. I'd be curious to know how many people are running a pure GNU/Linux environment - SUSE or otherwise. If your job requires Windows, and you don't own the business, don't include that. Please include:
<> Number of GNU/Linux boxes vs. Windows boxes (personal or SOHO use) <> Systems configured to dual-boot (only if Windows is rarely used) <> Any reasons why you still keep a Windows box or copies of Windows around <> Length of time you've been Windows-free
Thanks in advance for your input.
Don This is not the place for polls. Please take the question to the OT
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 16:59 -0500, DC Parris wrote: list. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998
On Thu, December 1, 2005 17:08, Ken Schneider wrote:
This is just a straw poll. I'd be curious to know how many people are running a pure GNU/Linux environment - SUSE or otherwise. If your job requires Windows, and you don't own the business, don't include that. Please include:
<> Number of GNU/Linux boxes vs. Windows boxes (personal or SOHO use) <> Systems configured to dual-boot (only if Windows is rarely used) <> Any reasons why you still keep a Windows box or copies of Windows around <> Length of time you've been Windows-free
Thanks in advance for your input.
Don This is not the place for polls. Please take the question to the OT
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 16:59 -0500, DC Parris wrote: list.
Thanks Ken. I will do that. I thought I would get a better response from this list, since not everyone subscribes to OT. However, I will post this over there, and hope that all who see this will post responses there as well. Regards, Don -- DC Parris http://matheteuo.org/ http://chaddb.sourceforge.net/ "Hey man, whatever pickles your file!"
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005, DC Parris wrote: > This is just a straw poll. I'd be curious to know how many people are > running a pure GNU/Linux environment - SUSE or otherwise. If your job > requires Windows, and you don't own the business, don't include that. > Please include: > > <> Number of GNU/Linux boxes vs. Windows boxes (personal or SOHO use) L 9 W 0 (excludes all machines < P III except my P II firewall) Plus my Linksys access point (they come with Linux) > <> Systems configured to dual-boot (only if Windows is rarely used) 2 dual boot (not counted above) > <> Any reasons why you still keep a Windows box or copies of Windows around 1. Came with laptops (2) 2. Some software/hardware requires W > <> Length of time you've been Windows-free I've nover used Windows as my primary OS: I came to Linux from OS/2 > > Thanks in advance for your input. What are you trying to prove? > > Don >
On Thursday 01 December 2005 16:59, DC Parris wrote:
This is just a straw poll. I'd be curious to know how many people are running a pure GNU/Linux environment - SUSE or otherwise. If your job requires Windows, and you don't own the business, don't include that. Please include:
<> Number of GNU/Linux boxes vs. Windows boxes (personal or SOHO use) <> Systems configured to dual-boot (only if Windows is rarely used) <> Any reasons why you still keep a Windows box or copies of Windows around <> Length of time you've been Windows-free
My home machine (the one I'm writing from) was SuSE/Win from SuSE 5.2. Around about 7.3, I got rid of Windows. I've installed every SuSE upgrade since since 5.2 (all paid for). On my wife's home machine, it was Win-only for years, then SuSE/Win about four years ago. These days, she boots into Windows occasionally. She keeps Windows for two reasons: 1) The tax software that she likes does not exist for Linux. 2) Every time I install a newer SuSE, something is "broken", and it takes me forever to fix it. Usually the problem is that SuSE has changed something, or nothing has changed but the install/setup somehow comes out different than the last time(s), and I just need to get the config correct for printing or file sharing or whatever (and of course, there's always the xine/libdvdcss thing ...). However, as far as she's concerned, whatever is not working is "broken", and she's correct. At work, I have dual/triple boot with RH and one or two flavors of Windows on each machine. RH Linux is just for test/demo of our products. The rest of the time, I'm in Windows (my newest and bestest box - with the dual-monitor configuration, decent processor and a couple of gigs of memory is WinXP), because the company standards require certain Windows- only software (also, I really like the MarineAquarium screensaver :-). The older test/tinkering machine is Win2K Pro and Win2K Server (and I have to keep remembering to unplug the network drop every time I boot into Win2K Server). My elderly laptop is Win2K Pro. I use it to take work home in the busy season -- since they laid off a couple of people who do what I do, it's pretty well been "the busy season" for the last six months. We may switch away from RoboHelp in the next year or so, and the few things that I still use FrameMaker for, I could do in "Word", meaning that I could start doing them in OpenOffice and nobody would know the difference, which means that I could probably slip into using Linux on the desktop at work and nobody would be the wiser. It looks like several of the enterprise tools are going to webbish interfaces... however, I think I'd still be stuck when I had to use the source-control and issue-tracking system. Company-wide, they use several systems, but it looks like we'll be standardizing on MKS next year. The chances of them paying out extra money so that I could have a Linux seat license when everybody else uses Windows... well, "vanishingly small" isn't descriptive enough. Oh, and I'm also kept in Windows because of Outlook and Exchange Server. We schedule all meetings and various other things in the Outlook calendar. As well, we use MS Project -- I'm not sure if there's a Linux equivalent that could transparently swap those files back and forth... is there? Anybody using? In many ways, I'd like to move entirely to SuSE on the desktop at work, but we are a branch office. We've had our own IT guy since being bought two years ago (before that we were a standalone company with a full IT department), but he's being ... um.... er.... discontinued just before Christmas. All IT will be handled from the US head office (I'm in Canada). I forsee a fair bit of downtime in our future, since even our phones are now VOIP.... and when it all goes blooey, I'm not using MY cellphone minutes to call head-office IT-dept. But the point is that if something goes wrong with Windows, Windows apps, or the network stuff, it's somebody else's responsibility and I get cut some slack if my projects slip. However, if I'm using Linux, then I get to be my own IT dept, and it's my responsibility to fix any problem that I have, without taking company time to do it. For me, that's a deterrent. Many would find that a lame excuse, but it's my livelihood, not yours, so.... :-) Kevin
On Thursday 01 December 2005 7:29 pm, elefino wrote:
On Thursday 01 December 2005 16:59, DC Parris wrote:
This is just a straw poll. I'd be curious to know how many people are running a pure GNU/Linux environment - SUSE or otherwise.
I am running LINUX ONLY on 3 boxes at home: 2 with Mepis and 1 with Knoppix. I am running 1 Windows XP system, solely to use my Hauppauge USB WinTV PVR which does not work with Linux. Bryan ************************************** Powered by Mepis Linux 3.3.1 KDE 3.4.2 KMail 1.8.2 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson bryantyson@earthlink.net **************************************
DC Parris wrote:
This is just a straw poll. I'd be curious to know how many people are running a pure GNU/Linux environment - SUSE or otherwise. If your job requires Windows, and you don't own the business, don't include that. Please include:
<> Number of GNU/Linux boxes vs. Windows boxes (personal or SOHO use) <> Systems configured to dual-boot (only if Windows is rarely used) <> Any reasons why you still keep a Windows box or copies of Windows around <> Length of time you've been Windows-free
Thanks in advance for your input.
I run 4 Linux systems and one OS/2 on my home network. It didn't replace Windows, as I've never run Windows as the primary OS on any computer I've owned. I have at various times run Linux or OS/2 on my work computers, but not currently. While the company I work for promotes Linux, and many employees use it, I can't because I'm supporting a customer that runs Windows and I have to be able to work with their systems. I had previously provided OS/2 support for my employer. Maybe one of these days, I'll get into the Linux area of the company.
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 16:59 -0500, DC Parris wrote:
This is just a straw poll. I'd be curious to know how many people are running a pure GNU/Linux environment - SUSE or otherwise. If your job requires Windows, and you don't own the business, don't include that. Please include:
<> Number of GNU/Linux boxes vs. Windows boxes (personal or SOHO use)
5 systems - 3 dual boot win/linux 2 Linux only
<> Systems configured to dual-boot (only if Windows is rarely used) <> Any reasons why you still keep a Windows box or copies of Windows around
One dual system was provided by my sons school board, and will revert to win only when he finishes high-school, another dual system is for playing games and getting virus', the third is for my tax software, which considering the cost of the software and the cost of AV software is getting expensive.
<> Length of time you've been Windows-free
My daughter has been win-free for over a year now, and she's hating every minute of it as she does everything she actually needs to be able to do on her system.
On Thursday 01 December 2005 08:24 pm, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 16:59 -0500, DC Parris wrote:
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<> Length of time you've been Windows-free
My daughter has been win-free for over a year now, and she's hating every minute of it as she does everything she actually needs to be able to do on her system.
James, is your daughter's one of the two, or is it a separate box? Thanks, Don -- Web Developer Oakdale Christian Fellowship http://matheteuo.org/
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 00:20 -0500, WebDev wrote:
On Thursday 01 December 2005 08:24 pm, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 16:59 -0500, DC Parris wrote:
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<> Length of time you've been Windows-free
My daughter has been win-free for over a year now, and she's hating every minute of it as she does everything she actually needs to be able to do on her system.
James, is your daughter's one of the two, or is it a separate box?
Errr, Uhmmm, that Mike, Don. :) She has one of the two Linux only boxes. When 98SE toasted for the third time, I balked at redoing it and gave the license to her brothers. If she wants Windows, she can buy it, full retail price for New Computer without Windows. :)
On Friday 02 December 2005 08:12 am, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 00:20 -0500, WebDev wrote:
On Thursday 01 December 2005 08:24 pm, Mike McMullin wrote:
On Thu, 2005-12-01 at 16:59 -0500, DC Parris wrote:
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<> Length of time you've been Windows-free
My daughter has been win-free for over a year now, and she's hating every minute of it as she does everything she actually needs to be able to do on her system.
James, is your daughter's one of the two, or is it a separate box?
Errr, Uhmmm, that Mike, Don. :) She has one of the two Linux only boxes. When 98SE toasted for the third time, I balked at redoing it and gave the license to her brothers. If she wants Windows, she can buy it, full retail price for New Computer without Windows. :)
Gosh Mike, maybe I need some new glasses! Sorry about that. Anyway, thanks for clearing that up. I didn't want to assume too much. Don -- Web Developer Oakdale Christian Fellowship http://matheteuo.org/
DC Parris wrote:
This is just a straw poll. I'd be curious to know how many people are running a pure GNU/Linux environment - SUSE or otherwise. If your job requires Windows, and you don't own the business, don't include that. Please include:
<> Number of GNU/Linux boxes vs. Windows boxes (personal or SOHO use)
20+ Linux, 1 Windows for prof. use, 1 Windows for personal use.
<> Systems configured to dual-boot (only if Windows is rarely used)
None.
<> Any reasons why you still keep a Windows box or copies of Windows around
Accountancy and PBX software that only runs on Windows, plus games (personal use :-). /Per Jessen, Zürich -- http://www.spamchek.com/ - managed anti-spam and anti-virus solution.
On Thursday 01 December 2005 13:59, DC Parris wrote:
This is just a straw poll. I'd be curious to know how many people are running a pure GNU/Linux environment - SUSE or otherwise. If your job requires Windows, and you don't own the business, don't include that. Please include:
<> Number of GNU/Linux boxes vs. Windows boxes (personal or SOHO use)
6 Linux-only
<> Systems configured to dual-boot (only if Windows is rarely used)
1 Linux/windows dual-boot
<> Any reasons why you still keep a Windows box or copies of Windows around
Windows only used to play a legacy game occasionally, _never_ permitted to access a network. I also keep WinXP pro on my laptop, but I never use it. It is there only as a courtesy for my boss and others, should _they_ have an issue they need windows for while we are traveling.
<> Length of time you've been Windows-free
Except for that legacy game, 5 years. Also, at work I use nxclient on a windows host to login to my home network, so even at work, I can still use Linux for almost all tasks.
Thanks in advance for your input.
Don
Mark
-- DC Parris http://matheteuo.org/ http://chaddb.sourceforge.net/ "Hey man, whatever pickles your file!"
On Thursday 01 December 2005 15:59, DC Parris wrote:
This is just a straw poll. I'd be curious to know how many people are running a pure GNU/Linux environment - SUSE or otherwise. If your job requires Windows, and you don't own the business, don't include that. Please include:
<3> Number of GNU/Linux boxes vs. Windows boxes (personal or SOHO use) <1> Systems configured to dual-boot (only if Windows is rarely used) <User is stubborn and stupid> Any reasons why you still keep a Windows box or copies of Windows around <6 years> Length of time you've been Windows-free
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:59:03PM -0500, DC Parris wrote:
<> Number of GNU/Linux boxes vs. Windows boxes (personal or SOHO use)
9 Linux (two of which dual-boot with Solaris/Sparc, one dual boot with 'doze) + 3 OpenBSD
<> Systems configured to dual-boot (only if Windows is rarely used)
one - see above
<> Any reasons why you still keep a Windows box or copies of Windows around
The odd program I can't get to run in Wine or on my SunPCi card. Last candidates: Official Dutch Tax Return software (Linux release rumoured to be scheduled for 2006), IKEA Kitchen Planner
<> Length of time you've been Windows-free
Since 1999. (Started using Linux in 1997, got my wife to switch in 1999). There were a couple of years when I had no Windows install at all. It re-entered when I got the SunPCi card and wanted to play with it... Cheerio, Thomas
On 12/5/05, T. Ribbrock
On Thu, Dec 01, 2005 at 04:59:03PM -0500, DC Parris wrote:
<> Number of GNU/Linux boxes vs. Windows boxes (personal or SOHO use)
9 Linux (two of which dual-boot with Solaris/Sparc, one dual boot with 'doze) + 3 OpenBSD
<> Systems configured to dual-boot (only if Windows is rarely used)
one - see above
<> Any reasons why you still keep a Windows box or copies of Windows around
The odd program I can't get to run in Wine or on my SunPCi card. Last candidates: Official Dutch Tax Return software (Linux release rumoured to be scheduled for 2006), IKEA Kitchen Planner
<> Length of time you've been Windows-free
Since 1999. (Started using Linux in 1997, got my wife to switch in 1999). There were a couple of years when I had no Windows install at all. It re-entered when I got the SunPCi card and wanted to play with it...
I am waiting for that to happen, but dvds are not playing as good as they play in windows, and DVD (movie) clone copy is not possible , thats what i am waiting for ...
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