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38% |
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| Windows |
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55% |
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| OS-X (Or other apple o/s) |
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1% |
[ 1 ] |
| Other .. Please Specify |
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3% |
[ 2 ] |
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cg
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Joined: 08 Nov 2004
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yet another useless os vs. os war starting? 
Everybody should just use what´s best for him/her as every os has advantages and disadvantages. There is no good one and bad one and even Windows can be secure without a router if you know what you are doing.
Voted for windows but well:
2 WinXP
2 Debian
1 WinME
3 Win 3.11
(And if I can handle it to find my other notebook, there is 1 Win2k too)
Greetings
Chris |
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braindigitalis
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Joined: 22 Sep 2003
Posts: 443
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I run windows 2000 on my desktop. I wont ever use XP, its just horrid. Windows 2000 flies by with a gigabyte of ram
I run FreeBSD 5 on my gateway/firewall, with apache and all the gubbins.
I run FreeBSD 4 on my laptop, which is old and crummy. I can do so much more with fluxbox and X than i could ever do in windows with a mere 32mb of memory
http://brainbox.winbot.co.uk/sysinfo/ |
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pepolez
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Joined: 05 Oct 2004
Posts: 163
Location: IRC
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| Posted: Oct 28, 2005 4:20am Post subject: |
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| codemastr wrote: | For example, you have to right click the desktop and tell it to mount the floppy drive. Now the drive is active. Now you create a file on the disk. And then you pull the disk out after clicking save. Well guess what? Your file wasn't saved! If you don't unmount the floppy before removing it, nothing is saved. That just seems like a needless hastle to me. And let me tell you, when you're working on a homework assignment, and you hand it in and get a 0 because your professor tells you the disk was blank, it certainly doesn't make you like Linux!
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most good linux distros automount nowdays |
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3nd3r
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Joined: 17 Jan 2006
Posts: 8
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| Posted: Jan 17, 2006 2:19am Post subject: |
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| gentoo linux |
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pepolez
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Joined: 05 Oct 2004
Posts: 163
Location: IRC
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| Posted: Jan 25, 2006 1:14am Post subject: |
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in this house:
ubuntu x4
debian x2
mandrake x1
win2k x1
winxp x 2
win98 x1
dualboot x2 |
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braindigitalis
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Joined: 22 Sep 2003
Posts: 443
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| Posted: Jan 25, 2006 7:50am Post subject: |
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| braindigitalis wrote: | I run windows 2000 on my desktop. I wont ever use XP, its just horrid. Windows 2000 flies by with a gigabyte of ram
I run FreeBSD 5 on my gateway/firewall, with apache and all the gubbins.
I run FreeBSD 4 on my laptop, which is old and crummy. I can do so much more with fluxbox and X than i could ever do in windows with a mere 32mb of memory
http://brainbox.winbot.co.uk/sysinfo/ |
Since last year i am now running Gentoo Linux in place of windows 2000 (theres no way im going to move to vista, ew) and freebsd 5 on my (newer) laptop with gnome, instead of freebsd 4 and fluxbox. |
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SATAN-HHH
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Joined: 29 Nov 2003
Posts: 855
Location: Texas
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| Posted: Jan 25, 2006 12:05pm Post subject: |
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| I think I am going to stick with Gentoo or maybe try this Ubuntu and see what it's like for giggles |
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Aven
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Joined: 05 Aug 2005
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Ubuntu Linux.
Gentoo is great, but hard to install... Ubuntu just happens to be the easiest install for me and works how I want it to so I'd rather not switch.
However, I'll be trying SuSe some day. |
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SATAN-HHH
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Joined: 29 Nov 2003
Posts: 855
Location: Texas
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| Posted: Jan 25, 2006 12:30pm Post subject: |
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| I've had the disks for months just hadn't got to try Ubuntu, good to know, I'll check it out. So far only tried the test version (run from cd). just to see what the feel of it was far as setup/ect. |
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braindigitalis
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Joined: 22 Sep 2003
Posts: 443
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| Posted: Jan 26, 2006 5:57am Post subject: |
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| SATAN-HHH wrote: | | I've had the disks for months just hadn't got to try Ubuntu, good to know, I'll check it out. So far only tried the test version (run from cd). just to see what the feel of it was far as setup/ect. |
From what ive heard ubuntu is the exact opposite of gentoo, for example:
gentoo makes you install by building from a chroot and nothing at all
Ubuntu installs it for you using a fancy installer
gentoo makes you build packages when you install them
ubuntu installs them as binaries
gentoo is based around the idea of everything being built frm source
ubuntu doesnt even install gcc as standard, its an extra 
gentoo prefers to expose the advanced workings of every feature to the user
ubuntu prefers the user friendly approach where these options are only available for those advanced users who go looking for them
At least, this is what ive managed to piece together over the last year or so. I'm a gentoo user, ive never tried ubuntu. |
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feek
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Joined: 25 Jan 2006
Posts: 1
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| Posted: Jan 26, 2006 4:34pm Post subject: <3 Linux |
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Debian linux
The only thing i use windows for is games that havent yet been ported to linux.
Most games that have been ported, run better than on windows anyways
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feek |
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magpie
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Joined: 18 Jan 2004
Posts: 454
Location: Essex, UK
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| Posted: Jan 26, 2006 5:38pm Post subject: |
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| braindigitalis wrote: | gentoo makes you build packages when you install them
ubuntu installs them as binaries |
I though gentoo actually provided binaries for a lot of packages now? This is something I keep hearing from gentoo users trying to counter the "but you spend all your time compiling" argument.
| braindigitalis wrote: | gentoo is based around the idea of everything being built frm source
ubuntu doesnt even install gcc as standard, its an extra ;) |
Well, as gentoo often expects lots of users to compile from scratch I'd hope that GCC was installed by default. Not that it's actually hard to install GCC in ubuntu, either "sudo apt-get install build-essential" or use synaptic (or kynaptic, whatever).
| braindigitalis wrote: | gentoo prefers to expose the advanced workings of every feature to the user
ubuntu prefers the user friendly approach where these options are only available for those advanced users who go looking for them |
Not sure you necessarily have to go looking for them. I think quite a few people that would be looking for the advanced features may well just edit configuration files by hand anyway.
Personally I see ubuntu as a highly polished, and easier to get running, version of debian (which is essentially what it is). |
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m00c0w
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Joined: 07 Dec 2005
Posts: 28
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| Posted: Jan 27, 2006 2:31am Post subject: |
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| Quote: | braindigitalis wrote:
gentoo makes you build packages when you install them
ubuntu installs them as binaries
I though gentoo actually provided binaries for a lot of packages now? This is something I keep hearing from gentoo users trying to counter the "but you spend all your time compiling" argument. |
yes, the bigger ebuilds do have -bin versions too...
like....
-openoffice
-mozilla (firefox|thunderbird)
basically, there are binary versions of all bigger ebuilds - compiling openoffice isnt exactly fun - the ebuild is > 200mb
just see for yourself |
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