geekitude iii: OSes good and bad

I use Unix. Specifically, Linux as OS of preference. The flavour of Linux that I use is Debian GNU/Linux. Why GNU/Linux ? Well, Linux is the kernel (the "core", if you like, of the OS), but many of the tools which are used on top of the kernel are from GNU.

I've been using Debian since 0.93R6, the first official release. Since then, I've used at some time or other, most of the newer versions, and currently possess 3 machines which run Debian. My laptop's running the most recent version, 2.2. My move to 2.2 has also seen me (finally) abandon fvwm as my most preferred window manager and investigate Gnome and, in particular, Enlightenment. Reports that this list is a resource hog and has memory leaks have thus far proved unjustified, so I'm happy !

Other Unices I've used include HP-UX (I've also adminned this a bit), SunOS/Solaris and AIX. I ought to get around to playing with FreeBSD at some point, but I'm a bit busy right now.

I Don't Do Windows. I cross-compile stuff under Linux, and then cart the executables somewhere where there's a Windows machine as and when I need to test the cross-platform availability of my programs. No machines under my direct control currently have Windows installed on them. And I'd like it to stay that way !

Content and design by Diana Galletly. Last updated June 13th, 2000.