What do you do?

SPo0n · Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 4:26 pm Post subject: What do you do?

Ok a few questions for you lot:

What's your profession/job/status?
What do you use your gentoo box for?
What apps do you use for the above?

My answers:

Slacking/Looking for a new college course
Programming and games mostly
Quake 3, irssi, kdevelop, anjuta, vim

Red Nalie · Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 5:03 pm Post subject: Re: What do you do?

What's your profession/job/status?
What do you use your gentoo box for?
What apps do you use for the above?

Student / Helpdesk Representitive
Desktop
KDE
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hook · Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 5:19 pm Post subject: Re: What do you do?

University Student (law) / i work at a opensource cybercafe
Desktop
KDE & fluxbox
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(deep inside i'm still a tux's little helper)

mxskweeb · n00b Joined: 19 Oct 2002 Posts: 28 Location: phoenix

Web developer
Writing PHP, surfing, email, GIMP, mp3's, SAMBA DC and file server (at home - MS shop at work )
jEdit, MoFirebird, Sylpheed-claws, GIMP, XMMS, SAMBA

Lovechild · Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 5:32 pm Post subject:

Student (Engineering - Information and communications technology)
Desktop
GNOME, Epiphany, xmms, btdownloadheadless.py, xchat. (at the moment)

duff · Guru Joined: 19 Jun 2002 Posts: 466 Location: Clemson, SC

Student (CS)
Laptop (stable/work) & Desktop (unstable/testing)
fluxbox, mozilla firebird, gcc/g++, latex, octave, evolution

Lycander · Guru Joined: 10 Apr 2003 Posts: 468

Embedded application programmer for a non-profit org. I code in C++ for PocketPC and PalmOS.

I use my Gentoo box for everything I need to do on a computer (at home at least).

I use mostly apps from under the KDE umbrella.

hewbert · Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 6:09 pm Post subject:

- Unemployed / Odd Jobs
- Everything
- Everything

razamatan · Apprentice Joined: 28 Feb 2003 Posts: 160

returning to academia for a masters in CSE

firewall/routing, central server, communication, browsing, stereo system, games, development

iptables (snat), dhcpd, samba, cupsd, gaim, irssi, mozilla, xmms, mahjongg, gcc. python, perl, lisp, java, etc. etc...
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ebrostig · Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 6:17 pm Post subject:

Principal Support Engineer, Advanced Resolution & Escalation Management team, Oracle Corp.
Work
Oracle Database, Oracle Enterprise Manager, Tora, GCC, Kdevelop, JDK, FireBird, Internally developed Applications, Kmail, Gaim, Xchat, Konsole

Erik
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nrl · Guru Joined: 27 Mar 2003 Posts: 446 Location: Glasgow, UK

idl · Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 7:06 pm Post subject:

A Level Student.
Whatever I want.
Whatever tickles my fancy.
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Lovechild · Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 7:23 pm Post subject:

idl · Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 7:32 pm Post subject:

deviljelly · Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 7:44 pm Post subject:

I'm a Java on Mainframe performance "expert" for IBM

My main machine and home server (when I get it working) are pure gentoo, as is my work laptop (we even have a Gentoo SIG in IBM!)

eclipse and portage

gigel · Guru Joined: 14 Jan 2003 Posts: 350 Location: .se/.ro

Estariel · Tux's lil' helper Joined: 21 Apr 2003 Posts: 85

What's your profession/job/status?

student - physics (2nd semester)

What do you use your gentoo box for?

for my studies: calculations and typesetting my homeworks
for entertainment: music, surfing, games

What apps do you use for the above?

mathematica (bought the student edition.. i really like it), latex, koffice
JuK for my music, Konqueror for browsing, NWN for gaming, SIM for instant messanging

Actually i do lots of other stuff as well, but this is what i do from day to day...

Yarrick · Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 8:25 pm Post subject:

student CS & engineering
studies and hobbies

opera, netscape, mplayer, ickle

paranode · l33t Joined: 06 Mar 2003 Posts: 679 Location: Texas

CS Student/Information Security
Vulnerability assessments

, secure web serving, surfing, music, burning, C/C++/PHP programming, plus other normal stuff that desktops do
Nessus, Nmap, Apache, PHP, XMMS, KDE, K3b, Kmplayer, Ogle, GQview, Emacs!, GCC, etc.

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Meh.

Beaker · n00b Joined: 22 Apr 2003 Posts: 26 Location: Raleigh, NC

Student (Master of Theology) / employed as help-desk/network admin
I use Gentoo at home for my router/firewall, file server, and laptop OS.
apps: phoenix, evolution, eterm, perl, xmms, KDE, GNOME, fluxbox (I'm fickle)

mabouya · n00b Joined: 15 May 2003 Posts: 39 Location: Matinik

Medecine student (until july... then, I'll start computer science)
I use gentoo for emacs & my fav app seems to be emacs,
eventhough I'm a proud registered Opera user :wink:

schmuck · n00b Joined: 21 May 2002 Posts: 31 Location: sthlm, sweden

Im a java developer (telecom)
I use my gentoo box to surf pr0n, read mail, hack and chat
The apps i use are mainly xemacs, *term, phoenix and mutt i guess.

Now, if i could just get my arse of this chair i would go out and myself a firewire card to sync my iPod on this gentoo box. that done i'd have G4 Cube for sale! anyone interested?

/jens
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rules do not apply to me

AngusYoung · Posted: Thu May 22, 2003 9:12 pm Post subject: Re: What do you do?

eryvile · Apprentice Joined: 14 Aug 2002 Posts: 234 Location: europe

profession
Senior Systems Engineer

use
mainly for private use, i.e. browsing, writing, music, coding and last but not least gaming :wink:

apps
opera/mozilla, openoffice/kile/scite, soundtracker/rosegarden4 (still causes problems

), anjuta/eclipse/kdevelop, frozen-bubble/chromium, fluxbox/kde and whatever is necessary to run all that stuff

As I usually work at the clients place, their wish is my command which mostly means an MS-environment

But things are getting better

gzipped · n00b Joined: 22 May 2003 Posts: 8

What's your profession/job/status?
What do you use your gentoo box for?
What apps do you use for the above?

software developer (sad but for winxx platform), last year of studies

home workstation, playing around, feeling like home:)

q3, flux, e16.5, eclipse, phoenix, mc, postgreSQL for developing