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Mainly stayed on Mac OS X. Tried out PPCLinux and Yellow Dog before that. Then used Ubuntu, all the while while using OS X mainly. Now making my own distro - Flying Chair Linux.

What advantages are you planning in it?

nice...mail me after u finish it...maybe i can be a beta-tester

t3h wrote:Mainly stayed on Mac OS X. Tried out PPCLinux and Yellow Dog before that. Then used Ubuntu, all the while while using OS X mainly. Now making my own distro - Flying Chair Linux.

For the public, or merely for yourself? Like I'm an active coder, but most of my programs are just little helpers or projects I don't want to release.

Now i'm running Slackware 10.1 on a Pentium MMX 233, with 64mb RAM.

It's a very weak box, i know... but is what i could get...

I'm accepting donations!! Anyone??

Yes but its a very efficient *nix box isn't it Thats one reason i like *nix you can run it on just about anything. Thats what really attracted me to it in the first place Its nice when you can throw old parts laying in your basement together and have a new firewall or dhcp server or even just a shell box.

Sure!!

I cant do everything that i need with it! And it was not very
expensive to me!

rafamonte, I had to live for 7..8 years with a Pentium I 233 MHz with 64 MB RAM (later upgraded it to 128 MB). As a number theoretician it was hard to work with it. =)

In my case, i use it just to write texts (i am studing philosophy in
the university), interneting, unix and networking learning... i just
began coding, but i'm in the printf("Hello World"); fase!

But have a box like it was good for you!! Working with math, without
great resources, maybe forces you to find creative solutions!!

Pitagoras never use a computer!!

rafamonte wrote:In my case, i use it just to write texts (i am studing philosophy in
the university), interneting, unix and networking learning... i just
began coding, but i'm in the printf("Hello World"); fase! :)

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puts("Hello world.");  /* better in that case =) */

rafamonte wrote:But have a box like it was good for you!! Working with math, without
great resources, maybe forces you to find creative solutions!!

Yeah, that's true. That's what brought me to use matrices for rotations (and now other transformations as well), instead of trigonometry. =)

rafamonte wrote:Pitagoras never use a computer!! :)

They would have used computers, if they've had any. =)

Fermat would have been excited by a computer. He developed his little theorem without the help of any automatics. It sure was annoying. =)

Please, say if i'm right. Lets see if i made my homework!

In that case, it's better to use puts() because it only works with
strings, and dont make any format translations. So, puts() run
faster than printf().

And about "matrices for rotations" and trigonometry, i have
to say: you are talking greek to me! I was the worst in math
in the school... Probally i will never be a good programer
with my limited math skills.

rafamonte wrote:Please, say if i'm right. Lets see if i made my homework!

In that case, it's better to use puts() because it only works with
strings, and dont make any format translations. So, puts() run
faster than printf().

Yes, that's correct. puts(3) also automatically appends the trailing new-line character '\n', which can be good or bad. If you need to print static strings via printf(3), then use something like this:

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printf("%s", "Hello world.\n");

The latter string can be almost anything in that case, even strings read from the network. There are no security implications (except terminal control escape sequences). It's also almost equally fast compared to puts(3). However, talking about speed in the stdio case is a contradiction. =)

rafamonte wrote:And about "matrices for rotations" and trigonometry, i have
to say: you are talking greek to me! I was the worst in math
in the school... :) Probally i will never be a good programer
with my limited math skills.

Don't worry, I've been the worst also (though not anymore). I've had to learn all the math stuff on my own, using Wikipedia or others. You just need interest. =)

So, getting back to distros...

I've used RedHat, Mandrake, Knoppix, and a lot of the smaller, lesser-known ones (Tom's RootBoot, Trinux, Xandros, to name a few).
Mandrake used to be my favorite, but I haven't had much luck with the new Mandriva.

I mainly use mandrake(mandriva) when I am installing with my own choice. Otherwise Fedora Core X. I have used Slackware too but if I have to install Slackware I'd rather install BSD.

I'm currently using gentoo, before that it was slackware with a brief stint with ubuntu between, while i liked ubuntus package management system its default of using gnome (or kde for the kubuntu version) was a bit much for my 450mhz PII Katmai with 192mb of ram, so gentoo+xfce is where i am now.