It works fine for me on Ubuntu with Firefox.  Am I to understand correctly that some of you here are still using Windows???

This "video" is extremely cool!  But if it causes compatibility issues then I'd say it should be a blog posting, burd.

This has happened occasionally to me for as long as I can remember. Not very often, though. I use Opera on both Ubuntu 8.10 64bit and Windows XP Pro.

Ubuntu.. intrepid on my primary laptop. XP could only see 3 gigs of RAM. I run WinXP within VirtualBox.. the 2.1 release of VBox makes host networking really easy.

I'm running Boxee on an Ubuntu 8.04 machine in the living room.

At work I have an old 512MB running ubuntu just for firefox and synergy.

I use foxmarks across my boxen and VM's to keep bookmarks synched. FFox keywords are handy things, especially for searches.

Ubuntu.

From 1998-2006 I was using Debian and tmsrtbt almost exclusively. For a while I had DamnSmallLinux(which is Deb derived) on my old P-233 laptop, but when I upgraded to my new Laptop a few years ago Deb-stable did not have SATA drivers in the install disks, so I installed Ubuntu, and never looked back. I'm actually very impressed with the amount of polish Ubuntu was able to add to Debian, and with a noticeably better upgrade every 6mo, I'm getting happier with it all the time.

My first real adventures into Linux were with Gentoo. Building a system from the ground up like that is a great way to learn how all the parts work. It's not the only way, mind you, and it can be rather frustrating and confusing, but it's certainly a way. USE flags give you a very fine level of control over your packages. Maintenance is a bit more difficult than other distros.

Have a Debian server sitting beside me at home right now. It's primarily a NAS unit. Got Ubuntu on my laptop. Will probably be putting on my primary desktop soon, too.

I've tried out quite a number of distros, usually by way of VirtualBox.

Let's see... scrolling down this list I remember trying Dreamlinux, PCLinuxOS, Knoppix, SymphonyOS, OpenZaurus, Damn Small Linux, Puppy Linux, Kororaa, VidaLinux, Red Hat, OpenSUSE, Mandriva, TurboLinux, Vector Linux, GeexBox and probably others that I've forgotten. I've also tried OpenSolaris, Nexenta, m0n0wall, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD. VirtualBox makes it so damn easy to try them out that I've gone a bit overboard at times.

If you want to experiment and don't want to fuck around with reinstalling over and over on a spare PC (or don't have a spare), go grab VirtualBox as I've mentioned twice now.

For desktop use, it's hard to compete with Ubuntu now. I do like Mint, but Ubuntu still has an edge in support and package availability (though both can usually be applied to Mint with minimal effort). For servers, I'm pretty comfortable with Debian. I still love Gentoo for some reason, though I don't do Gentoo installs anymore. I think emerge might be habit-forming... apt just doesn't give me that fuzzy feeling. I've got a Gentoo server at work that I built almost 5 years ago that does a million things for me.

Debian.

Ubuntu on my at-home dev server (aka an old laptop).

I wanted to try Mint. But there a huge advantages to sticking with Ubuntu / Debian install base.

What about Foresight? I really want to try out a Conary based package distro.


(you do know you can move the taskbar to the bottom in all gnome/kde etc???)

I use 64bit Ubuntu. But I have tweaked it a little bit to work well with my laptop, ie compiled my own kernel to make use of the hard disk protection.

Ubuntu!

Awesome work Lucky — you rock the house!

A few buglets I've noticed so far:

• I have the same issue with the voting AJAX (Firefox 3.03 on Ubuntu 8.10)
• There are no vids listed under the Playlists tab (which by default seems to be Group Playlists) even though there already are some group playlists.
• When inviting people to a group playlist, some of the pageviews showed everybody's checkboxes, rather than the usual "Invited, still waiting for response" message for those who hadn't accepted the invite yet.

i'm a ubuntu

OSX? I saw what looked like Ubuntu KDE and GNOME, but not OSX proper.

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That's true. I might go fully Linux and let the kids learn how to use it properly. It would probably be a good thing anyway. Alternatively, I'm thinking of building a Hackintosh.

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heh.. spose that's true. I haven't yet put a family member onto it, but keep threatening too. Beats having machines wiped out by viri/spyware.

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I tried Ubuntu - it's very clean and pretty. I liked it a lot - then I put it in front of my SO and kids. Good luck trying to play a DVD or find files that they've saved. Regardles of the pretty surface of Linux - the underpinnings are old school unix file structures and operations. I lasted about a minute before opening a terminal window.

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what about ubuntu? did you have a specific distro in mind?

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I guess I misread the the graph.

To each their own. Linux is great if you have the skills to keep it patched and manage your window manager. I would never recommend it to any of my non-techie friends. Even the file manager would drive them batty. I also do a bit of graphical stuff and would sorely miss Photardshop and Illustrator. I've tried Gimp.

heh.. spose that's true. I haven't yet put a family member onto it, but keep threatening too. Beats having machines wiped out by viri/spyware.

In reply to this comment by dag:
I tried Ubuntu - it's very clean and pretty. I liked it a lot - then I put it in front of my SO and kids. Good luck trying to play a DVD or find files that they've saved. Regardles of the pretty surface of Linux - the underpinnings are old school unix file structures and operations. I lasted about a minute before opening a terminal window.

In reply to this comment by winkler1:
what about ubuntu? did you have a specific distro in mind?

In reply to this comment by dag:
I guess I misread the the graph.

To each their own. Linux is great if you have the skills to keep it patched and manage your window manager. I would never recommend it to any of my non-techie friends. Even the file manager would drive them batty. I also do a bit of graphical stuff and would sorely miss Photardshop and Illustrator. I've tried Gimp.

Comment hidden because you are ignoring dag. (show it anyway)

I tried Ubuntu - it's very clean and pretty. I liked it a lot - then I put it in front of my SO and kids. Good luck trying to play a DVD or find files that they've saved. Regardles of the pretty surface of Linux - the underpinnings are old school unix file structures and operations. I lasted about a minute before opening a terminal window.

In reply to this comment by winkler1:
what about ubuntu? did you have a specific distro in mind?

In reply to this comment by dag:
I guess I misread the the graph.

To each their own. Linux is great if you have the skills to keep it patched and manage your window manager. I would never recommend it to any of my non-techie friends. Even the file manager would drive them batty. I also do a bit of graphical stuff and would sorely miss Photardshop and Illustrator. I've tried Gimp.