Maximum PC

yes, apt-get owns!
and if u wanna search its "apt-cache search STUFFHERE"
make sure u use one word. example: "apt-cache search screensaver"

if u already knew that then i just post it for general public. ^^

What OS do you run?
1. Gentoo - 2.6.15-r1/gcc-3.4.5
2. WindowsXP SP2 (occasionally)
3. BeOS 5 Pro

Why do you run it?
1. I thought I loved linux before....now I'm a complete idiot about it because of Gentoo. I can't say enough good things about it. As mentioned elsewhere, portage is da' bomb.
2. Eh, sometimes there are things I use in Winblows that are less than optimal when emulated in Linux. This list shortens every week.
3. Old times sake. I miss it....

When did you start using it?
1. 1998 or 1999?
2. 3.0/3.1 can't remember
3. Right before 5.0 came out.

GUI?
1. Fluxbox (convert from KDE) - I'm a desktop minimalist & commandline (ab)user, so it suits me perfectly.
2. Bleh, I use the old windows. New windows still looks like a cartoon to me, although I've installed WindowBlinds
3. Default.

Which browser?
1. Opera
2. Firefox
Spending time going between the two, although there are still a few pages that Opera doesn't display correctly for me.

Email Client?
1. Thunderbird (converted from Kmail)
2. Outlook Express
3. Don't do mail on BeOS actually...

Audio/Video?
1. XmmS, MPlayer, Ogle, whatever works
2. Winamp, PowerDvD or my Hollywood Plus card
3. I switch around a lot, can't even remember...

Editors, Office progs?
1. Vim, gedit, Open Office, KDE's Office
2. Productive and MS Office 2000, Wordpad
3. Productive (sweet!), vi

What OS do you run?
Windows XP SP2
Knoppix 3.9
Slax 2

Why do you run it?
Windows for general purposes that require it.
Knoppix/Slax are both awesome responsive and the KDE UI is so awesome!

When did you start using it?
Windows: since the days of 3.1
Knoppix/Slax/other live Linux CDs: yesterday

App Questions:
Firefox on both, Konqueror on linux.

Email client?
Thunderbird on windows, havent checked my mail using linux.
Audio and video players?
WMP 10 on win, haven't used any on linux.

Office progs (editors, etc.)?
Office 2003 student/teacher ed on win
Open Office.org 2.0 beta on both

Well, i'm not exactly a veteran *nix user, but so far I'm loving the feel of KDE. It's absolutely slaughters the Luna UI and makes OS X run for its money.

General Questions:
What OS do you run?
Gentoo Linux x86 2005.0 profile

Why do you run it?
Because linux has an open model, something I can't live without. Plus, I feel like I am a part of a community with linux. With windows, I'm a normal every day slacker. Plus, Games tend to be easier to install.

When did you start using it?
About a year ago.

App Questions:
Which browser?
Mozilla Firefox

Email client?
I always just go to yahoo's site.

Audio and video players?
Beep Media Player

Office progs (editors, etc.)?
Abiword

What OS do you run?
1. Windows XP Home
2. Fedora Core 3

Why do you run it?
1. Mostly for gaming, partially for Microsoft Visual Studio
2. Learning to use Unix/Linux, and development (my website is hosted on a Linux system, it's easier to test my website before it goes live).

When did you start using it?
1. No idea. Looooong time ago
2. Started with Red Hat 6.2, and moved up on and off since then

Which browser?
Nothing but FireFox. It's one of the few pieces of software that's portable, stable, easy to use, simple, well supported, intuitive, etc. It's an example all software developers should follow. It pwns all.

Email client?
Gmail.com

Audio and video players?
Windows Media Player
XMMS

Office progs (editors, etc.)?
Don't use Office at all. My docs are all HTML, edited with Notepad++ or VIM. I would use VIM on windows as well, but it doesn't handle wrapping very well. I sometimes use Visio for things like flow charts or UML diagrams, and I also use Paint Shop Pro or Gimp for image editing.

What OS do you run?
FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE (amd64 and i386), FreeBSD 4.11-RELEASE (i386)

Why do you run it?
Because I think it's the best of the *nix operating systems. It's extremely stable, has a great ports system, excellent documentation, and a cool mascott named Beastie .

When did you start using it?
Started using it for servers in 2002, and for workstation use in 2004.

Which browser?
Mozilla Firefox

Email client?
Mozilla Thunderbird
Mozilla Mail

Audio and video players?
VLC
XMMS
mplayer

Office progs (editors, etc.)?
pico / nano

Shells:
tcsh
bash (on some systems)

Desktop Environment:
Xorg
Xfce

What OS do you run?
Gentoo, FC 4, SuSe
WinXP Pro, SP2, Win 2k, Server 2k3

Why do you run it?
I needed a linux/unix programming DE for school, and I wanted to play more than in the past.
Windows... everything is on windows, gaming.

When did you start using it?
DOS: 1990
Linux: 1998

Which browser?
Mozilla Firefox, IE for windows updates

Email client?
GMail, Mozilla Thunderbird

Audio and video players?
VLC
XMMS
WinAmp (windows)

Office progs (editors, etc.)?
Linux: OO + nano
Win: Office 2k3 / OO

Shells:
Usually whatever the default is, I don't change it often. I use bash on the Sun machines running Solaris 8 at school.

Desktop Environment:
Gnome

What OS do you run?
Ubuntu 5.10
WinXP (Tablet)

Why do you run it?
Linux creams xp in multitasking. My desktop is a 1.2 celeron with 512 ram, and I can still be productive while the cpu is at 100 percent load. And chicks dig tux.

Linux hasn't really caught on to tablet yet.

When did you start using it?
Knoppix 3.2 (ummm, 2 years ago?)
Ubuntu half year
I remeber playing Loom on dos... so I can trace windows back to early 90's...

Which browser?
In Linux- FF or Konqurer

Windows- Opera

Email client?
Thunderbird

Audio and video players?
VLC both osses
AmeroK for Linux
foobar2000 for Win

Office progs (editors, etc.)?
OO.org

Shells:
Nautlis

Command Prompt

Desktop Environment:
Gnome

win 2k theme

What OS do you run?
* Linux - Mandriva3006, BLAG30001, Kanotix-64
* Microsoft - XP pro sp2

Why do you run it?
* Linux - streamtuner, music, photo, samba file sharing / networking
* Microsoft - for gaming purposes, recording tv shows and watching using BSPlayer or Divx player

When did you start using it?
* Linux - second week of december 2005
* Microsoft - since Dos 5.0

Which browser?
* Firefox

Email client?
* actually .. just hotmail

Audio and video players?
* Linux - XMMS, Streamtuner, Streamripper, Amarok, Totem video player
* Microsoft - BSPlayer, Divxplayer

Office progs (editors, etc.)?
OpenOffice

This is Matt that helped you with DSL.
How is the linuxing going?

General Questions:
What OS do you run?
Windows
Linux Suse 9.2

Why do you run it?
Windows for games
Suse because I can, plus I got it for free

When did you start using it?
Windows in 98 I believe
Suse I just finished installing so about 30 minutes ago

App Questions:
Which browser?
Firefox and Opera for both(IE for those pesky sites in windows)
Konqueror in Suse

Email client?
Thunderbird

Audio and video players?
Windows I use WinAmp
Haven't ran Linux long enough to worry about audio players yet

Office progs (editors, etc.)?
Open Office

What OS do you run?
Gentoo Primary
Ubuntu/Debian Backup

Why do you run it?
Gentoo has total control
Ubuntu/Debian Easy to use and easy to manage

When did you start using it?
Gentoo 2.5 to 3 years
Debian 3+

App Questions:
Which browser?
Firefox/Opera

Email client?
Uhh rarely check my email

Audio
Amarok/MPD/LastFm

Video
Xine/Totem

Office progs
Open Office

Editor
nano

Terminal
mrxvt

Fedora Core 5



It doesn't crash all the time like Windows does, it's free, and it has all of my favorite software pre-installed.



5 is an upgrade, but I've been using FC for about a year.



Firefox



Thunderbird



VLC



OpenOffice

General Questions:
What OS do you run?
Windows XP pro
Suse 10


Why do you run it?
Gaming
Something different/internet

When did you start using it?
I cant remember XP.. ive been usin windows since 95
No too long ago

App Questions:
Which browser?
IE/Firefox
firefox

Email client?
gmail.com
same

Audio and video players?
windows
i dont know the name

Office progs (editors, etc.)?
OPENOFFICE/microsoft office 2003
openoffice

EDIT: just changed some stuff..

General Questions:
What OS do you run?

Linux (Ubuntu, Debian, Slack)
Used to run Caldera, RedHat, Fedora, Gentoo, SuSE.

Why do you run it?

As a desktop. Preference. I only run Windows when someone is paying me to.

As a Webserver. I'm a cheap bastard and didn't want to have to spend out for an NT server when I started doing web hosting.

When did you start using it?

Played around with original builds of Linux while I was in the Army (1991-1994). Dropped it for a while because life was exceedingly busy.

Picked it up again with RedHat around 1997 and was damn impressed by package managed Linux. When I was younger, compiling everything from scratch was cool. But it got old as my time became more constrained. Part of the reason I stopped using Linux for a while.

App Questions:
Which browser?

Firefox by preference.

Email client?

Thunderbird by preference.

Audio and video players?

Pretty much anything so long as I can avoid Quicktime and Real and their annoying nagware.

Office progs (editors, etc.)?

OOo (Duh)
vi

GUI
GNOME

General Questions:
What OS do you run?

Suse Linux 10.1 for most games and everything else. Windows XP x64 for the games I cannot get running in Linux.

Why do you run it?

WGA and windows activation. I dont believe in licenses. I believe If I purchase software or music, I own it and can do whatever i want with it. Noone has the right to tell me what to do with what I have legalliy purchased.

When did you start using it?

10.0 on my server last year. 10.1 on my main box this summer. Finally, linux is good enough enough to almost completely go windows free. There are some serious games that are avail on linux.. including id software titles. I have converted my dad's pc to Suse 10.1 also. He likes it so much, he does not want to go back.

App Questions:
Which browser?
Firefox mostly. Been playing around with Opera 9 a bit... not too bad!

Email client?

Thunderbird. Been running this for about 3 years now.

Audio and video players?

Kaffiene, mplayer, beep player.

Office progs (editors, etc.)?

Openoffice.org 2.x. Been using for 3 years also. Note: I was running Firefox, thunderbird, and Openoffice in Windows.



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What OS do you run? SuSE 10, right now freespire(long story)

Why do you run it? SuSE 10.0 is easy to use. I like yast, and it was my 1st. I upgraded to suse 10.1(reinstall), but my ethernet/wireless would not work.

When did you start using it? Ever since I started using linux!

App Questions:
Which browser? Firefox, Opera

Email client? Don't use any.(Gmail in browser works for me!)

Audio and video players? Amarok, do not play video.

Office progs (editors, etc.)? Openoffice 2.0

What OS do you run? I run Suse 10.3

Why do you run it? Suse 10.3 is easy to learn and is relatively easy to do stuff with and it doesn't have that crappy license crap that XP does.

When did you start using it? I started using Suse 10.1 about 6 months ago.

Which browser? Firefox FTW

Email client? Mozilla Thunderbird

Audio and video players? Kaffeine the most, but also VLC.

Office progs (editors, etc.)? Mostly I use OpenOffice.org and a few others that I can't remember

General Questions:
What OS do you run?

FreeBSD, Debian, KnoppMyth and Solaris

Why do you run it?

FreeBSD - My all-around home server
Debian - My desktop distro
KnoppMyth - My DVR/DVD player/TV tuner box
Solaris - what the servers at work run

When did you start using it?

i started on Linux probably back in 1999 but i only started using Debian this year. (i'm only 21)

App Questions:
Which browser?
Firefox
Email client?
n/a...i use web-based email
Audio and video players?
usually Totem for audio and video, but sometimes i mix it up with VLC or XMMS
Office progs (editors, etc.)?

OpenOffice for GUI and nano for CLI