luau digest: December 12, 2001

[Warren Togami]

On Fri, 2001-12-14 at 19:58, Dan George wrote:
> I was just wondering what everyone does here for a living. Do you all
> actually use Linux in a working environment or is it just a hobby?
> 
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Hi Dan,

I personally use Linux for all server tasks at for hobby, school and
work projects ranging in tasks from web servers, databases (MySQL and
PostgreSQL), e-mail servers, proxy caching, caching DNS, Samba windows
networking, network printer, and thin client server.  I could possibly
use Windows server in many of these tasks (I even own a license of
Windows 2000 Advanced Server), but I rather not waste my time with the
hundreds of security problems popping up every year.

I also use Linux as my main home desktop now.  It is a very strong
software development platform.  I am currently using that aspect of
Linux, GNU compilers and the KDevelop IDE to do my computer science
programming projects.  In the future I hope to work on qt/KDE code, and
perhaps work on Ximian Mono, a free implementation of Microsoft .NET
written in C#.

My other Linux desktop stuff is just about everything you expect in a
desktop.  Four web browsers, many different e-mail clients, scheduling,
MP3 and movie media players (everything but WMV movies), CD ripping,
full featured office applications, PDF tools, printing tools, instant
messaging clients.  I bought CodeWeaver's Crossover plugin allowing me
to use many Windows browser plugins like Shockwave and Quicktime.  I
also bought Transgaming WineX, allowing me to play many DirectX Windows
games while voting on the project to influence the development WineX.

Warren Togami
warren at togami.com