[ubuntu-uk] suck it and see

[Rob Beard]

norman wrote:

> 
> Come on Ubuntu users, let's hear of all the things you like to use and
> what gives you pleasure. Stop lurking and come out.
> 
> Norman
> 
> 

Well on my desktop I'm still running Ubuntu Edgy (x86 version on an 
Athlon 64 3000+).  I have a couple of Cron jobs setup to record some 
internet radio streams for a couple of shows that I enjoy listening to. 
  Mplayer dumps the stream to the hard disk and then I generally 
re-encode it into OGG (for playing at home/work) or into MP3 for playing 
in the car.

Other than that I also mainly use Firefox, Thunderbird, OOo and 
Inkscape.  I also have in the past had a play around with Audacity to do 
simple audio editing.

I use K3B for all my CD writing needs which I find is a far better 
application than the NeroLINUX trial I downloaded recently.

I also run FreeNX on my desktop PC to remotely share X sessions.

My server also runs Ubuntu Edgy (server version) and it mainly acts as a 
big file store for any music/videos/pictures and what not that I have. 
It also runs VMWare Server (the free version - although I believe it 
isn't the GPL'd version) which has an SME Server 7.1 virtual machine 
running which acts as a mail server.  Doing this enabled me to 
consolidate two machines into one to save electricity and room in the loft.

I did dabble with Xen but I couldn't find any decent documentation when 
I built the server on how to run SME Server as a Xen domain.

At work I used Xubuntu Dapper as the base for an audio playout system at 
the local county show (Devon County Show) on my employers stand (Gemini 
FM) using Campcaster and OGG audio.  Doing this saved a considerable 
amount of money on a specialist playout system.  I just used an old Dell 
PC with a couple of cheap sound cards in it.  It also furthered a 
colleagues interest in Linux.

Also at work I have Ubuntu Feisty dual booting on my laptop with Windows 
XP and I have setup an Ubuntu Dapper server running Apache which runs 
pmWiki for a technical knowledge base which replaced Lotus Notes (plus 
we use it as a fax server to receive faxes from some broadcasting 
equipment and I also connect into it from home for quick easy text based 
access to things).

All in all I always now tend to use Ubuntu (or another flavour of Linux, 
such as Debian) where ever possible.  I only tend to suggest Windows PCs 
at work as a last resort (such as running a program which requires some 
unsupported specialist hardware).

Rob