Pardon me, but I have nothing to say
Submitted by SkinnyJ on Fri, 04/11/2008 - 21:05.
Greeting from Idaho Falls, ID aka Land of the Spud-chuckers. Been using Linux since late 2006 when SuSE 10.2 was released. I remember that because I downloaded 10.1, installed it, then 10.2 was released the next week. Kinda ticked me off. But since then, I've spent much of my bandwidth on downloading a ton of Linux distros trying to find that special distro that would make me all warm and fuzzy. Turned out that it is .....
Linux Mint.
It does everything I need it to do, right away. No digging around the underbelly of the internet to find codecs and using conflicting repositories (cough, Fedora, cough). Like Chad, I dig on the Debian lineage over the .rpm based distros.
I am using Mint on the desktop and Debian 'etch' (with no GUI) for a proxy server (using Squid) in a VirtualBox VM on a Windows Server 2003 box. I really groove on the VirtualBox. Small download (17MB), but a ton of functionality. I'm working on my MCSA at the moment, and hope to have it cranked out by the end of the year. However, I dig using Linux when and where I can. I like how lean it is on resources. Mint at startup is using 375 MB of RAM. When I stripped down all the possible background services on Vista, it was down to 655 MB of RAM.
Chad has a theory that all Linux users like the same music. I am here to break that theory. I'm a huge extreme metal fan. No top 40, country, rap, or polka. Metal only, please. My top bands: Cannibal Corpse, Slayer, Morbid Angel, Meshuggah, Napalm Death, Necrophagist, Blotted Science, Hate Eternal, Carcass, Origin and Strapping Young Lad. If it's complicated and fast, I'll likely dig it.
I likely won't be saying much in this forum, but I'll be lurking in the shadows.
Anyhow, thanks Chad for the podcast. I was looking for a replacement for Linux Reality, and you are it!
Wow dude, big shoes to fill
Wow dude, big shoes to fill with linux reality gone hehe. Thanks a ton for signing up and listening. I tell you though, you do not deviate from my theory. I think that metal has its roots in hard rock, which I think most linux users like. I will twist and bend my theory to see that i am always right:P
Great to have you on board dude.
Chad (hey wait, if you only like metal you don't like my songs, and you're still listening?? Hmm, there goes that theory that everyone listens only for my final songs.)
Yeah, they are big shoes,
Yeah, they are big shoes, but you are getting it done! I'm ready for more advanced topics and you are right there leading the way.
I do listen to your closing songs the first time I listen to an episode, but I'd rather hear some blast beats. Ha! But there is one acoustic intro that is mighty impressive that you might dig. The song "James Pough, What the Hell Did You Do?" by Macabre on the Sinister Slaughter album. Email me if you'd like to hear it.
But it is the power of Linux that brings us all together, regardless of musical preferences.
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Old George Carlin joke: I never did a ten, but one night, I did 5 two's. And that oughta count.
welcome aboard form Scotland
Hi Dude,
And welcome man, have some fun, come join us in IRC irc.freenode.net #linuxbasement
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Greetings!
Oh you Bandwidth abusing distro downloader ;) Nice to hear from you SkinnyJ.
I Agree with you mint is a snappy distro, gotta love the Debian package methodoligy. see you around.
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I am with you man
I agree Linux Mint is amazing wish they supported the powerpc arch. Linux Mint is definately my distro of choice. It combines both the ubuntu repos and and great interface that I enjoy using. I have tested it in Vmware and hope to run it for reals soon on my new compy.
Using Ubuntu Hardy on my PowerMac G4