rants and (hopefully) useful info
For a while, I preferred ArchLinux as my personal Desktop Workstation. However, I found a few instances where I was not able to get certain apps to work reliably. I started looking into alternatives which would be equally light and configurable. This was where I decided against ubuntu – since it wanted to make all…
CentOS VERY solid and stable. I have several servers that have uptime of >500days (the very few incidences of downtime were from power issues, not OS). I did get hacked a couple of times before I learned how to use iptables adequately. Debian SOMETIMES, compatibility calls for non-CentOS. I am not a fan of…
My objective when I started experimenting with Desktop linux, was to mimic a WinX station. I would hazard a guess that this is the most likely scenario for anyone switching away from M$-windows. If they can’t keep doing their work “productively” – they are NOT going to be interested in whether the propellor heads think…