Mar 09, 04
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Linux in BC.
Yeah.
I know there's a couple people in the lower mainland that use Linux. There used to be a linux discussion group, I also used to attend the local 2600 meetings, but they were a bunch of fucktards. I know tux was bragging about his leeto skills earlier. ./haxor 1>/dev/null &1 anyways. Who are you? What do you do? Would any of you guys want to get together for a FNK Linux group meeting? ;) It's good to get it out there, not many people I know actually know what they are doing. 
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Mar 09, 04
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/me plugs his nose
yeah guys, lets get together! we can download pics of women who use linux and also make jokes about people who use micro$oft windoze HE HA HE HA HA HA HE! oh yeah, has anyone seen my inhaler?
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Mar 09, 04
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I used linux and win2k.
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Mar 09, 04
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i have a funny love hate relationship with linux. i love the operating system but i hate the people that use it.
too many zealots, too many people into the gee-whizz factor and not into the actual capabilities and many disadvantages. too many anti-ms people thinking theyre starting some stupid political revolution. anyways, ive gone from junior sysadmin years ago to network engineer. unix/linux/iis has given me a good living.
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Mar 09, 04
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i still have my system dual booting but i cant remember the last time i went into linux... this one summer i tried to forcefeed linux to myself but it just didnt work out too well... im going to try it out again when i get a new computer
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Mar 09, 04
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yea i used to go to VanLUG meetings at BCIT once in a while, and a few 2600 meets.. but haven't been to any of those for a year or 2. Anyways what the hell would we do @ an fnk linux group meet??
and: who am i? Tux.. what do i do? contract webdesign/server-side programming seems to be what i'm doing the most of right now..
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Mar 09, 04
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I've been running small linux servers out of my place since grade 8... starting off with linux/ppc. Since then I've had about three different macs running 24/7 to serve the webpage/email of my dad's computer company. I haven't had the balls to run linux as a desktop os for more than a few months though. I'm going to BCIT for networking later this year, so I'm always keen to learn more!
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Mar 09, 04
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I've used Debian/Red Hat/Suse/Slackware and some smaller single disk routers etc. I was a network admin for 3 years when i was in High School. MCSE was too expensive to take so I went on to fly instead. I still have a copy of Linux kicking around... maybe I'll use it again one day. :284:
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Mar 09, 04
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Haha neoh that's some damn nice setup you got there!
Well I'm building my way up with GNU/Linux. It's a learning phase now but it's going pretty good. Yet I don't really care that people don't know about it much. Let them be slaves of MicroSoft [I am somewhat of a MS hater but I am using XPPro right now :D] while we get the hi-end jobs as network admins and network intrusion testers.
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Mar 09, 04
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I use it all the time because the price can't be beat and I support the cause. And I've found that Windows just annoys me these days anyways.
Ed has been my friend for a long time. I just compiled a Linux From Scratch the other day. I was, however, an idiot about it and formatted my partition ext2, so I think I have to re-do it. That being said, I'm a big fan. I'm a member of the Cowichan LUG. I'm happy to divulge my knowledge on it to anybody who asks. I'm a regular slashdotter and a trigger happy zealot. =)
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Mar 09, 04
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ebbo - LFS! Yeah! haha.. my loghost runs it. It's about 100mb using ext3 - and yeah, the drive is supposed to be formatted with ext2 - and have a swap drive that's half the size of your memory, that's all that's really needed. I prefer ext3 for the journaling, it's a bitch if the system goes down and every inode made in the first couple weeks are deleted because they are marked as 'bad' by fsck. It's a bitch to try and get back.
Oh - and the power supply fan? I guess I havent looked.. it's been under my desk for years, maybe i'll take a look next time i'm home. It's been running for years, hasen't had a problem. In fact, not even the processor fan is fitted properly - it's resting on top of the processor with a heatsync. (p166) and the HDD has 1080 bad sectors. :) But it runs like a fucking charm. Processes data for my entire network, 10Mbit and 100Mbit, 16 machines worth, data being processed at about 30mb/s - the workload is well over 1.00 daily. Just another reason to use linux as a primary server based operating system. I'll still admit, windows is still friendly when it comes to desktop based applications. Server side, I wont go with anything else but the penguin. (or the daemon, depending on my mood) :)
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Mar 09, 04
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haah i didnt even know wut the shit linux was till after this post
wow just wow :toasted:
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Mar 09, 04
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i tried linux once but stopped because i couldnt install anything. id use it if i knew how to install things.
assuming i hadnt 'switched' soon after i realized i couldnt use linux and that xp bothers me. Last edited by ryantron; Mar 09, 04 at 10:57 PM.
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Mar 10, 04
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Quote:
Slack: No package management. Don't bother for learning. Unless you really want to give yourself some headaches right off the bat. Redhat: download something called an "RPM" (Redhat Package Management) file. Then, as root, run the command: $ rpm -ivh <rpmfilename.i386.rpm> Note, however, that rpm doesn't resolve dependencies (programs a program needs in order to run). There are software installers, but so far the only one I've liked has been synaptic... which is an extension of... Debian: Uses "APT" (advanced package tool) for DPKG (debian package) files (extension: .deb). Apt is nice because it downloads the package, all its dependencies, and installs them straight onto your computer. Run, as root: $ apt-get install <packagename> and it'll install everything you need to run said program. Now, there exists a program, synaptic, which runs apt from a GUI rather nicely. I prefer it far more than dselect (the text-based apt-package browser). Also, you can set up crontab (the kernel's scheduler) to run security updates on a nightly basis or something so that your system is consistently secure. That's a bit more advanced, but let's just say that it's a great way to make sure that all the applications on your computer work to the best of their ability all the time. You can also get apt-rpm so you can run apt-get on RPM-based systems rather than on DPKG-based systems. Works wonders. I'm a big fan as I prefer RPM to DPKG (though I prefer apt to yum or urpmi or other RPM-based package tools). Personally, I use the setup of Fedora Core 1 (what used to be RedHat Linux) with apt-rpm pointing to freshrpms and dag's apt repository. Have I completely lost you yet? Please ask if you want any clarification.
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Mar 10, 04
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lol your computer is made of lego.
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