ive been using linux for a while now and have it pretty much set up, but with that done i really dont have anything to do on it. as of yet i dont have broadband internet access and therefore no internet while on linux. what should i be doing on linux? what does everyone else do on it?

Dang - you've got me... Nothing! Oh my god... I just set it up - over and over again. Thank you, I've seen the light!

Well, O.K. not really.

I use Linux as a network server (mostly for Samba). I have four Windows XP computers that are on and off all of the time, and the Samba "NMBd" keeps the XP machines able to keep seeing eachother (my entire network is on Broadband/DHCP). It works like a WINS service - but without the hefty price tag.

I also use Apache, Perl and PHP to test web page designs before I put them up "live". I compile programs to find out if they would be usefull at work. But, when I surf the web - I still use Windows.

Why? <shame> I have a weakness for Microsoft Flight Simulator, which I feel is the only thing Microsoft has done a really, really good job on.</shame>

If I didn't have a weakness for MSFS - I would not have ANY need to run Windows - ever. Open Office allows me documents, and there is plenty of browser support for Linux as well. There is very little that Windows can do better than Linux - many on this forum would say that NOTHING is better on Windows.

To each thier own, really.

I use Linux to get chicks.

well, as this has been asked many times here, i use linux for anything a computer can be used for. its an OS, anything is possible.

yup, all the best lookin chicks go for the linux dudes.......just ask my girlfriends

Well I use linux to capture video, process it, and burn it. I rip my DVD's and eventually back them up in AVI format on 700MB discs.

I also use it to play mp3's, watch videos, and to keep anything I want secure, secure.

Open source is, what I think, more than just software. It's a way to treat others, and a way of life. If the whole world thought of open source in a way to help everyone out, just to help out, then I think we would have a better place to live and better things to pass on to your kids. Linux incorporates these ideas into it's OS.

I use linux to do anything that I would do with any other OS.

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I use it for many things, but I have not even close to doing everything you can do with it.

It's the system of choice for my home network as a router, firewall, and web server, mail server. I have windows for some games, and I still need windows at work.

I don't understand the internet comment. You have internet or you would not be posting here, so why can't you use linux for it?

I was on a boat at work with 15 people that had to have an internet connection. At one point I had wireless to land and there I had dsl. there was a linux router firewall on both ends.

Dsl goes down a lot so I told them to give me a dialup. When the dsl went down I would ssh into the land router and start the dialup.

Thats right 15 people on a dialup is slow, but it was better than nothing.
I tried winblows and got nothing but server lockups, with Satellite Internet, so I put one of my my old Linux routers on it and never had any server downtime.

Oh yea, I forgot. I'm on dialup now and using linux.

I use linux to learn how it's to be free. I value my freedom.
I use linux to educate others about their right for freedom.

DavidPhillips, you sir, are a hard A$$!

I would probably roll over and die if I had to constantly use anything less than my slow DSL connection at home.

Concoran, I'm with ya.

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i use linux because i like experimenting with computer systems and o/s's, you walk into my room i got apples, xp boxes, linux, qnx, beos all i need is BSD....hmm any others???

i also use it to learn how an o/s works and maybe one day be a master at Linux, i really love using linux, i don't know why

I use linux because it's efficient.

I use it as a server and for specialized tasks. Linux allowes me to ressurect old past life PC's and get them useful again. It allows me to build incredibly useful systems on shoestring budgets.

I still primarily surf and workstation from Windows Based boxes but that's more to keep an equal grip on the desktop technologies that are in general use. (Oh, and I game as well and most of the stuff I like to play does not work nearly as well on WINE as I'd like).

I like and trust the OS well enough that I am going to do a MAJOR rebuild of several main Enterprise components of our network and move it to Linux. Webservers casual use database servers, border messaging servers, network monitoring, and firewalls.

LOTS of stuff to use linux for. But as an individual? Well if you're into the hobby then that is pure preference. I have yet to look into casual uses for it but some of the stuff MasterC wrote has caught my eye... I'll have to poke into that and see what's available for it.

Well your right, High speed is the way to go. And I have a 250 KByte + connection at home.

However I stay in motels 20 or so days out of the month, and very few of them have high speed connections.

I use linux because I can get a good understanding of how the system works. For file management and system management I opt for command line over gui which to me seems faster.

I use it for everything I do except games. I tried to convert the family over too, but that didn't turn out too well

Fiber optic IS the way to go. We've been waiting forever for it to become affordable & mainstream. *sigh*

" I was on a boat at work with 15 people that had to have an internet connection. At one point I had wireless to land and there I had dsl. there was a linux router firewall on both ends." - there you brought up an interesting point. I read a Linux article about Sun's iWork. It will incorporate RH Advanced Workstation with Ximian Gnome 2, prolly unavailable to consumers. I really love this idea: you go to office, you see an empty seat, you sit down and start working from there, at lunch you go out, the next guy takes over your workstation. Windows won't do it in its lifetime. At least, I have never seen it in the real world. Also, Sun is going Linux-only. Guys, give them a round of applause.