[TriLUG] Distribution Survey

[jonc at nc.rr.com]

Well, I rev my home box rarely - since I don't really need much new
there, and the possiblity of a vulnerability being used against those
machines is extremely rare. So I'm still running RH9 on the old home box
- but with updated apps like Open Office, FireFox, and BZflag - but an
older version of Evolution (that is rock solid).

At work I keep up-to-date to avoid any vulnerabilities and because most
of the personal data is run off hosted apps (or stored on my boxes at
home) - so upgrading is no pain at all.

I run Mandrake on some servers because I learned MSec a long while back,
and I really, really like it, and trust it. OpenBSD for similar reasons:
Security.

I run CentOS because most of the fun goodness for Business VoIP is being
done on that plateform so when I use someone elses hacks they generally
work just fine. I also run CentOS on my laptop because on my off-hours I
contribute back some of the fun goodness with my own hacks. 
 
As an old command line jockey, I have no problems with any distro - as
long as I can find the icon that opens up the gterm session :-)

Jon

----- Original Message -----
From: Andrew Perrin <clists at perrin.socsci.unc.edu>
Date: Friday, April 20, 2007 9:02 am
Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Distribution Survey
To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list <trilug at trilug.org>

> All right, so I have a follow-up question. Why do y'all use 
> different 
> distributions for different machines? Doesn't it get confusing?
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