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May be a silly point but Stallman is suggesting we move to saying GNU + Linux, it being easier to say and a bit more precise.
Also if anyone is looking to manage 10+ linux boxes at once I’m just learning Puppet which seems to be a really nice configuration management tool. Drop me a line or pop in to Access Space 11-2pm Tues to Fri

Hello. I wrote this.

Our father, who art in /sbin,
init is thy name.
Thy PID is 1;
Thy children run
In user space as they do in kernel.
Give us this day our daily RAM
And forgive us our interrupts
As we are nice to those who interrupt us.
Lead us not into uncaught exception
And deliver us from SIGKILL
For thine is the system
And thou art the saviour
For ever and ever – until we upgrade yer!

( Inspired by Robert Love’s ’Linux Kernel Development’ (2nd ed.), p.29: ”All processes are descendents of the init process, whose PID is one”.)

If anyone is looking to revive and old machine I’ve been using a couple of flavours recently that’ll do nicely. I’ve been running Crunchbang, an ubuntu based light OS, on a mini ITX machine running a netbook style motherboard (Atom 330…it barely draws any power with it’s power supply never taxed at it’s max rating of 120w) for months and it responds well as long as you remember not to open too many Firefox tabs at once
But recently I’ve also tried wattOS on an old Dell Latitude D400 and it zips along. It’s also an ubuntu based reshuffle with the idea of using as little power as possible (greener computing). It uses LXDE and pcmanf to provide a very light weight windowing system and it’s default software set has been chosen to be as light and efficient as possible. It’s basically turned my old D400 (that you can get for about £50 these days) into quite a powerful netbook.

If you have an old laptop or are into mini ITX machines you can’t go far wrong with these ports. They both have access to ubuntu’s package libraries.

Hi, who uses what flavour?
I’ve had a little experience with a lot of flavours but I mostly use CentOS.