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  3. November 2009

Re: Why are you on a *nix desktop?

David Gibbs skrev:
Aaron Bartell wrote:
I thought I would start a thread that would allow us to get to know each
other and why we ended up here.

I'm not ... really. Although I think it's a great goal.

As most of you know, the midrange.com lists run on linux ... but for the moment, Linux doesn't have enough application & driver support to be viable on the workstation.

I do have Ubuntu 9.10 installed on my laptop, and I play around with it from time to time.

I have Ubuntu 9.04 installed on my work laptop and a business XP running in vmware player. I am extremely pleased with it as a Java development platform, but the XP runs abysmally slow (probably because of background processes and anti-virus), and the nvidea X-driver does not support hot-docking.
Anybody running the IBM 5250 emulator under Ubuntu?


I'd rather have the new iMac 27" maxed out with memory, but that is an uphill battle :)



(must be 9.04 as vmware has not declared 9.10 supported yet).


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