2100XP, KT400 chipset, 512MiB, Radeon 9000, etc.
Has never, ever booted MS Windows - Debian GNU/Linux 100%. I use EAGLE for electronics CAD, Matlab 5, OpenOffice, Mozilla, a bit of OpenMosix experimentation, HC12 development, a bit C programming with Anjuta. I also have a copy of the AROS cvs but haven't done anything useful with it - have a couple of other projects with slightly higher priority (and what seems to be the toughest semester of my MEE degree). This machine is on 24/7 serving a number of useless, seldom used services, including acting as a partial debian mirror, proxying for 32 PCs running a folding@home client, ftp, SMB master browser, ssh shells, a web portal, X, etc.
I find people don't mind using Linux but hate being their own sysadmin. For a while I had a few friends using remote X sessions to do their unix & C assignments in even though they had Redhat on their own PCs..
- Paul
