Which Linux distributions do you use?

[AlexBrinister]

The reason why I'm asking is because there is a GCC 4.8 VxWorks toolchain (as of now, only for Linux) here. The goal of the toolchain is to allow teams to use the C++11 standard in their code and to bring robot code development to Linux. The project is currently officially supporting Ubuntu and Debian, but I have suggested that we also include Arch and Fedora users (as I'm most comfortable with those distributions). It seems like Red Hat-based, Ubuntu-based, and Arch-based distributions are the most popular.

Alex Brinister

[byteit101]

Originally Posted by AlexBrinister

The reason why I'm asking is because there is a GCC 4.8 VxWorks toolchain (as of now, only for Linux) here. The goal of the toolchain is to allow teams to use the C++11 standard in their code and to bring robot code development to Linux. The project is currently officially supporting Ubuntu and Debian, but I have suggested that we also include Arch and Fedora users (as I'm most comfortable with those distributions). It seems like Red Hat-based, Ubuntu-based, and Arch-based distributions are the most popular.

Alex Brinister

Yea, Thats just because those are the only two distros I regularly use with familiarity. If anyone know how to package for rpm, arch, gentoo, etc... please let me know. Its not supposed to be Ubuntu only

[CodeYeti]

I use Debian for my workstation, and Arch for embedded projects.

[Joe Ross]

I use Debian on my servers, and Ubuntu on my laptop and desktop.

[hiyou102]

I use Fuduntu and Fedora on my laptop and Ubuntu on my desktop. I usually use GNOME 2 or 3 as my desktop environment.

[AlexBrinister]

Does Fuduntu use the standard Fedora package conventions?

Alex Brinister

[catacon]

Over the years, I have used just about everything. Right now I use Mint 14 since it is much like Ubuntu without all the junk.

Our robot is using Ubuntu 11.10 server for vision stuff.

[techhelpbb]

I use Ubuntu, RHEL, Mint and CentOS.

I've used just so many it would be silly to list them all. Somewhere I have Xenix and UnixWare on 5.25" floppies.

I still use a lot of Solaris even thought now it's all Oracled up

[JesseK]

We use RHEL at work, so I use CentOS at home on my dev-box-slash-server. There's no use in learning so many OS's individual commands, so I don't bother with Ubuntu.

If the Unix community would get off their butts and provide a better way for Virtualized Guests to access the raw graphics card power for CAD in a VM, maybe I'd make the full switch away from windows since I prefer to develop in Linux. Until then, I'll always have Windows for CAD, gaming, and the HTPC.

[ekapalka]

I typically use BackTrack 5 R3 (off of a USB drive) on just about every device I can. I also use Arch Linux ARM on a raspberry pi.

[apples000]

I use debian and ubuntu. I started using ubuntu in 2008 (8.04), and loved it, so I've stuck with it since. Unfortunately, I can't get used to the Unity or gnome 3 environment, so I've been using lxde/xfce/gnome 2 on my different computers.

[connor.worley]

Fedora w/ XFCE

[hiyou102]

Originally Posted by AlexBrinister

Does Fuduntu use the standard Fedora package conventions?

Alex Brinister

It can install Fedora RPM packages but is missing many of dependency's found in the Fedora repository. If a dependency is missing I can always just look it up online and install it.

[plnyyanks]

I've got Fedora on my laptop and desktop. Which reminds me, I've got to get Ubuntu 10.04 up somewhere for Android work...

[faust1706]

Ubuntu 12.1. that is the software for our O Droid X board, our vision processor, for this year's robot.