Just an update: I've been using Ubuntu for two months straight and have loaded it on my parent's desktop, my brother's desktop, my wife's laptop and my buddy's PS3.

Ubuntu is awesome!

I'm going to download the latest beta of PCLinux and play around with it next time I'm bored. I'm just going to run it within VirtualBox for the heck of it. I intend on keeping Ubuntu until I find something that is superior! I doubt that will be anytime soon!
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Its nice not having to have a Virus protector or firewall :-)
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The only problems I've had with Ubuntu are the occasional flash crash and when installing, it won't automatically detect video cards in SLI. I have to remove one of them, install, tweak xorg.conf and then install the second card. I love dual monitors with Compiz.
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I am now using Puppy Linux, running off of a 2gb kingston flash drive.

I boot my work computer from it and I don't have to worry about all of the stupid permission blocks they have on me ... like not being able to burn CD's.
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I just migrated to Ubuntu about two weeks ago and its worked out pretty good. My media server is still XP but thats about it.
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I currently run XP for photoshop, and RHEL5 for everything else. I also have Ubuntu loaded on another partition...I have a live disk of Ubuntu too...that is pretty cool
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Sigh.... I'll have to go back and read this thread more closely to see what people are running these days.

A couple years ago I was tinkering with Puppy and PCLOS (which was brand new back then) in an attempt to get a FREE, easy to use OS for a computer I built for my father. After a lot of hair pulling and wasted hours I had to blow it all away and install Win XP when I finally realized one day I was starting to read things about the deep inner workings of how Linux talks to hardware, which was totally the opposite of the experience I wanted!

The deal breaker was that neither OS would emit a peep of sound no matter what I did (other than installing XP). :-)

I want to give Linux another shot, but my past experience has left me gun-shy. I have a spare SFF PC lying around that I'd like to use, but no OS for it....
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Try Ubuntu, if you want to check out what's all the rage and read up on what is out there check out http://www.distrowatch.com
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hmm.....go to whatismyip.com on oyur new linux box and then public post your ip address.

/get rootkit
/brute force attack
/slip in rootkit

hehehehheeh
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SimlyMepis live CD has worked for me on every system I have tried it on, right off the CD. Anything not on the CD could be searched for and install through the utility "synaptic". The distro BackTrack3 has a way to build a flashboot drive. Useful for those behind-the-wall systems, and other things.:-)
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Running OS X on my dell mini right now. Works like a champ.
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Thanks for the link. I was struggling trying to remember what that site was called. :-)

I'll have to read up on Ubuntu sometime... I vaguely recall being weirded out a bit by all the different "flavors" of "-ubuntu" that are out there. :-)
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Yea just get the regular version.
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I'm running Ubuntu 8.10 on my laptop right now. Wow, I had been using 6.06 before, what a difference! Automatic, easily configured wireless support! YAY!

I still use Puppy Linux on a flash drive at work. I only use Windows on the work machine when I absolutely have to.
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Just did a clean install of 9.04 on my laptop last week. Wow, it boots super fast and it's great!

Also, installed Xubuntu on my wife's laptop. It is so fast I can't believe it. She's really happy with it. Way faster than Windows XP!
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Nice. I guess I'll fire up the desktop and do the update.
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Been using Ubuntu for years. I used to run the Ubuntu California LoCo.

I have been using Linux since about 96 and Debian is still my go to OS. It sure has come a long way from where it was even 5 years ago. Compiz FTW! :-)

And did someone say penetration test? hhmmmm Check out my company http://www.grayscale-research.org
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NICE! So there are schools now to teach the stuff we used to have to learn the hard way.
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I've been messing around with 9.04s netbook remix on my eeepc. I like it so far :-)
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Been having problems with my Ubuntu install on my laptop lately. Youtube videos are temperamental and sometimes the audio stutters. Have 2 gb of RAM on the way. Currently running on 512. Anybody have ideas for tweaks? Or should the additional RAM help?
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