How Much Do You Know About Linux?

[daacosta]

Xandros is a good distribution in my opinion. I was not crazy about their Xandros Networks program to update the OS and sometimes preferred to use the simple:

apt-get

I even downloaded Synaptic and played with Xandros for some time... Being a Debian based distro such things were very easy to do...

I do believe that Xandros detected my hardware the best and it has only been equaled by Fedora Core 1 and 4 that I prefer to use.

My only problem with Xandros is that they also have a paid version of their distro... If only their OCE distro version were a purely community driven effort, I would go back to Xandros... Ah! and if they eliminate Xandros Networks I would have nothing to complain...



I have been thinking about setting up a linux loaded laptops community involvement program when I go back to Colombia for good... I think we need to do whatever we can to offer Linux as an alternative to underpriviledged ones...

[fingal]

I have been thinking about setting up a linux loaded laptops community involvement program when I go back to Colombia for good... I think we need to do whatever we can to offer Linux as an alternative to underpriviledged ones...

That sounds interesting. I think that could be a way out of poverty for someone, or for a group of people. I would also like to be part of a Linux related project in the city I live in. So many jobs these days are unsustainable, and I think that the idea of 'sustainability' for real communities is the key to many things.

[daacosta]

Not to try to divert the thread...

Recently I read about Microsoft donating computers with Internet access at Medellin, Colombia for underpriviledged people... This program is supported by the major of Medellin...

I felt bad about the fact that the open source community didn't even have the opportunity to bid and make an alternate proposal at a much lower cost. I have got to do something once I am back at Medellin, Colombia!

How much do I know Linux?

Well... It is free, isn't it?

[gtmtnbiker98]

I am definitely between 3 and 4, having used Linux off and on for two years. Since November, I finally decided to dedicate a machine at home and make myself learn this - frustration aside. I feel relatively comfortable with SuSE and currently have deployed two production servers running SuSE at work. I am running Samba and Apache and must say, I am hooked. I have battled all of the headaches associated with Samba and once you learn how it works, I can setup a Samba server in less than ten minutes. Gotta love the price! I have convinced my employer to use SuSE and Samba for all future file servers. It just works!

[onlinebacon]

I would say that I am about 4, I can install and maintain Gentoo, and do a *little* BASH with the help of the net, I am learning C++ and after that python, or maybe the other way around, starting whatever it is today

Anyways, soon I'll be a 4.5-5 on *nix, quite good with freebsd, and solaris too (whihc i use as my desktop)

'bacon