Comments on: All About Linux 2008: Linux distros I’ve loved before

By: Sam Jackson

Sam Jackson — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 06:23:27 +0000

I dabbled a bit in the past, but am now looking to get back in the Linux game. After school, when I have time to mess around before going off to my summer D.C. internship, I am going to get a nice fat new laptop HDD, dual boot *nix something and some windows (I have vista x64… :( sigh) on my dell m1330, just because I miss / could use some of that linux utility in my life. oh well.

By: Jacob Meyer

Jacob Meyer — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 15:47:51 +0000

Redhat was what I started with in 2000. I started in the command line in Redhat 6.0 (Hedwig). and slowly moved to Mandrake with a gui over a couple of years. When Knoppix hit the net, I used that for a while. I think it is a great recovery tool too. Now days I use Debian/Ubuntu (both) and OpenBSD. As far as the floppy firewall goes, I would of used a floppy setup too. Although I would of probably of used OpenBSD with “pf” instead of Linux and “ipchains” or “iptables” If you are proficient in TCP/IP protocol, I guess you could lock down your network with any of them and not have to worry. A 386 would of suffice no problem, if it is totally dedicated to being a firewall.

By: drdrew

drdrew — Fri, 28 Mar 2008 13:31:55 +0000

My favorite was Slackware, though with the size of the distro (and most "main" distros) has become too bloated. Therefore, Slax. Great OS, under 200mb, specifically tailored for live use with a usb stick and uses modules for other software/addons. Ubuntu, obviously. Once in a while I still have to checkup on DSL, always have a copy of Knoppix for windows troubles, and have dabbled with gOS (love premise with my being a Gboy, but it's not quite there yet). Another one I really like checking out is MenuetOS - [from the site] "...written entirely in 32/64 bit assembly language..., that fits on a single floppy! Yes, I have OCmD - Obsessive Compulsive Minimalism Disorder

By: John Biggs

John Biggs — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:29:49 +0000

Sorry. I geeked out for a minute. Basically I worked as a programmer and hated my life is what that means.

By: Travis

Travis — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 21:26:02 +0000

Wow – I think I understood about 10 words in the whole post. I hope am I not the only person who went HUH after reading -

“It was pre 2K madness and I was programming COBOL on a VAX machine in Warsaw, Poland. We used to write scripts using a scriptable terminal program to send Man-Machine Language codes to Nokia switches to add call forwarding to thousands of subscribers, for example.”

2K – the year 2000 and then I am lost.