Thank you Edafe, for a very interesting site - particularly your section on getting Freeview up and running under Slackware. This will warrant further detailed reading, as I'm interested in trying to get one of the Lifeview TV Walker Digital Freeview DVB Q USB Tuners you can get on eBay very cheaply working under Slackware on my T41.

Anyway to carry on and answer the question...

1. On a very cheap Compaq PIII/500 as my web and ftp (ProFTPD) server under 10.1.

2. As a 10.2 desktop machine in the house, primarily used for mail, browsing, writing and watching DVDS. Also for Linux studying.

3. On my T41 as a 10.2 desktop machine and network analysiser in work, when I can no longer face working in XP. This should be very interesting next year when I dump NetWare 6 and move our servers over to Novell's OES. Ideally I'm hoping to use my Slackware T41 to control the SuSE servers.

Regards

dkpw

I use Slackware as a desktop.. browsing, email, music, films, university stuff that needs to be typed (like lab reports), etc. I do my programming on it as well, not that I've done much for a while, but still. I don't really need servers. Well, my machine does run an SSH server, but that's mainly so I can log in from upstairs and transfer files over SFTP if I need to.

So far I've only installed it on my home laptop. If I come up with some extra cash, I might install it on my main PC and purchase Cedega so I can use Slackware as my gaming OS. By having it on my laptop, I can take it anywhere and learn Linux on the go. I've been learning about website development with PHP, mysql, Apache and DreamWeaver, but on Windows. I'm going to blow away my 2K3 server and use Slackware as my personal Web Dev server instead. Now that I finally got my 802.11a wireless card to work, I might keep Linux on this laptop indefinitely. I used to get frustrated with the lack of 802.11a support in Linux. Thank goodness for ndiswrapper. It rocks.

I use Slackware as a desktop. The beauty of Slackware is that it can be configured either for a desktop or a server, unlike other linux distros that aim only for one or the other, slackware can be used to fit one's needs, because everything is here.

Using it as a:
Web surfing machine
qmail mail server for a church
DNS server for my network
web server for the same church
firewall for network
NAT router for network
temp holding place for network files
when other machine is off
And, of course, as a WOW effect on my poor,
uneducated and unenlightened computer friends
(Nothing like seeing their faces when I'm recompiling a kernel, website administrating,
reconfiguring the mail server, and doing other
tasks in X. They try something close to that on
their high $ Wintel machines, it would puke the
OS right out of the HDD...lol)

I use it as/for:

Web server
Email server
Time server
File server
Database server
Remote Workstation
Programming

Its headless, so on my desktop I usually have a few ssh sessions opened to it constantly. I also download torrents with it, download big files overnight, basically anything thats easier, more convenient (in my opinion of course) to do in Linux

I use slackware simply to have fun with linux. I do everything with slackware.

SLACKWARE RULEZ!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I'm in my 50's and use Slackware at work on a number of different machines as/for:
Web server
File server
Mail server
Firewall
Backup of Win95/98, Win2k, and machines.

At home I have it on my both my desktop and laptop.

What type of buisness are you employeed at?

It's my primary OS -- I use it for (as others have said) ...

Email, networking (testing connections/connectivity), web-browsing, word-processing, media-playing, ...

the list goes on and on. What don't I use Slackware for?

I've pretty much been using it to learn about Linux.

Between the bugs, the limitations of some of the applications, and the lack of support for some hardware, I would never consider using it as my personal operating system. I guess I'm spoiled by things like mIRC, Microsoft Word, CuteFTP, WinAMP, Eudora E-Mail, and other programs I'm used to using. I did try CrossOver Office, but never could get it to completly work right. The most annoying thing was I could never get the help to work in any applications.

KDE crashes often when I log out, and I have never been able to get the help in KDE to index the KDE application documentation.

Some things worked well, like the filesystem, SAMBA, and CUPS. Other things worked after lots of effort, such as the Promise RAID controller, SoundBlaster Audigy card, and my wheel mouse. A few things never worked, such as my Lexmark printer/scanner and Intel webcam.

There are a few things I haven't tried, simply because I couldn't figure out how to do them.

- Getting my SCSI DAT Tape drive to work
- DVD writing
- Scanning on my networked Laser Printer/Scanner

I had hoped to run some of my Windows applications, but that seems impractical, due to the differences in font rendering, and the fact that help files don't seem to display, or don't display correctly. Although I could run some of them (mIRC) they didn't behave exactly the same and tended to have strange window handling problems.

Before I get flamed, I should say, I'm not dumping on Linux. I think it has a lot of good points. In some cases Linux supports hardware that Windows doesn't. It is small enough to be used for standalone booting from CD, which can be extremely helpful for recovering from system problems. There is a lot that can be done with Linux. The trouble is there are still things I need to do on a daily basis that Linux won't do. I'm looking forward to seeing where Linux goes from here, and it's still one of the operating systems I boot on my computer.

The biggest problems with Linux are the same problems plaguing Windows. Some companies that develop hardware for PC's have poorly written drivers (or no drivers) and don't always keep them up to date. Software varies greatly in capabilities and reliability. With a little more investigation I may find more that I can do with Linux. I certainly didn't get all my problems in Windows sorted out right away.

I have been using Slackware around 2 years.I used Red Hat,Fedora before.

I use Slackware for the following purposes:

1.Web Server

2.FTP Server

3.File Server

4.E-mail Server

5.Database Server

6.Desktop

I will use Slackware Linux as my Desktop in the near future because I am increasingly unsatisfied with the speed of WinXP.

I am still very new to the great world of Slackin' and I love it.

For now 10.2 is for:

Main Box -
1. Browsing.
2. Learing Linux / Slackware.
3. Music server for home.
4. Web Site Developement.
5. Teaching myself programming languages.
6. Anything else.

Box #2 (in work) -
1.various server environments.

Why would anyone want the limitations of anything not Linux?
Slackers Unite!

I use Slack 10.2 to bug my wife. She is hardcore XP and hates to have to deal with Slack.

Ah, little victories...

I also use it for my main OS, desktop stuff and the like. Keeps the 50 + mind working well...

I use slack for everything except playing starwars battlefront2. everything == surfing, schoolwork, programming and so forth.... cant really understand why people pay for distros like mandriva and suse when they actually dont offer anything that you cant get with slack.