Who's using Debian?
1. Name: Baldwin Linguas, New Haven, CT, USA 06513
2. Type: commercial (translation agency).
3. Home page: http://www.baldwinlinguas.com
4. Description: Baldwin Linguas is a small language services agency,
providing translation, interpreting, and localization services and
multi-lingual web design and mastery.
We have used GNU/Linux since inception, having used Fedora, PCLinuxOS
and Ubuntu, and even rolling our own (LinguasOS, based on PCLinuxOS) for
a while, but finally joined the Mothership around early 2009, and
haven't looked back since.
Unlike other distros, Debian Stable seems to never break stuff.
It lives up to its name, so we can focus on our translation work, rather
than waste time fixing stuff.
Heck, even in the upgrade from Lenny to Stable, Debian just worked.
Took a couple of hours to apt-get the upgrade, and B00M, we were back to
work, seemlessly.
Amazing! (especially cool that Squeeze was released on my birthday!)
We use Debian on all desktop computers in-house, and our 1 in-house
server (in-house server mostly used for file server over ftp, ssh, and a
Pootle installation, plus internal dokuwiki. Our main website is hosted
off-premises on a CentOS server, sadly).
Our most used applications are OmegaT (this one we install from the
project, itself, since Debian's version is old), OpenOffice.org, for
translation work, Vim and Iceweasel (online research, communications)
for web services work. I (owner) use Mutt for e-mail.
We use GIMP for creation and manipulation of graphics for web services
work and marketing materials.
Many gnu and bash tools see regular use, with a lot of scripting to
automate much of the manipulation of textual materials (especially sed,
awk, perl). Everything, really, is on our Debian machines, including
all the boring, back-office admin stuff, all webdev tools, all
translation tools, all word processing, everything.
If I had to try and use Windows for this stuff, I'd probably shoot myself.
Thanks!
Tony Baldwin
CEO, Baldwin Linguas
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http://www.baldwinlinguas.com
translations, interpreting
multilingual webservices
EN, ES, FR, PT
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