Linux?

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Anyone using linux? What flavour?

Currently using KUbuntu but interested to see what others are using.

[Sphinx]

Puppy linux! Fear the penguin.

[Rufus®]

Stuck on Debian, with no admin rights...... bloody yanks!!

[adam69]

I thought you were talking about one of Minux relations.

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I thought you were talking about one of Minux relations.

Hahahhahaha

[minux]

I still use minux at times...on a 10 year old laptop. Currently use an obsd gateway, my personal favourite has always been slackware.

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I still use minux at times...on a 10 year old laptop. Currently use an obsd gateway, my personal favourite has always been slackware.

How stable do you find slackware?

[minux]

How stable do you find slackware?

I had an uptime of 468 days at one stage, only reason it went down was because of a power loss. Slackware and Debian are probably two of the best linux distro's around.

[AttaBoy]

How better is linux compared to vista/xp?? Might think of installing one.

Can anyone recommend me a good distro?

[azkwazere]

Gentoo is the best distro around, its literally a custom kernal, nothing you dont need!

as for user fiendly ****: Ubuntu is easy, Mandrake was awsome but Mandreva is good (preffered it when is wasnt merged) red hat....

As for migrating from windows to linux i dont reccomend it in that youll be forvever having incompatablity issues and stuffing around. If your running proxys or home servers yeah but have it as a dual boot for awhile and get used to the way it works.

It terms of stabilty it ****s on eveything but thats cos its designed that way... harder to use = better product afaic...

aZk.

[nicko]

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[minux]

Gentoo is the best distro around, its literally a custom kernal, nothing you dont need!

As for migrating from windows to linux i dont reccomend it in that youll be forvever having incompatablity issues and stuffing around. If your running proxys or home servers yeah but have it as a dual boot for awhile and get used to the way it works.

Not really a fan of gentoo, although to be honest I havent touched it since its first releases years ago, so it is probably unfair to keep that statement.

I would disagree with a dual boot setup, best bet is to build a cheap PC and run it solely on that, too easy to mess up your entire drive if you really do not know what your doing. If it weren't for work, I'd be back on my old school E desktop

[bezz]

used to run ubuntu linux when I was doing programming at uni. Nice distro, quick, simple interface, and internet speeds were so much faster too. I ended up ditching it as most of the programs i needed to run for the next year of uni were windows based, so I was kinda stuck.

[azkwazere]

used to run ubuntu linux when I was doing programming at uni. Nice distro, quick, simple interface, and internet speeds were so much faster too. I ended up ditching it as most of the programs i needed to run for the next year of uni were windows based, so I was kinda stuck.

which is why most do unfortantually! its just they way it is... everyone makes software for the majority rather than the minority!

My tweaked version of XP is stable as its gonna get and i have "0" compatability issues so i cant complain, linux drivers samba, squid and a few others for me these days, no daily pc stuff though...

aZk.

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I'm finding stability to be more a question of:

Do you want stability? Then get an older release
Care much about stability? No then get the latest and greatest.

It's a lot faster than windows xp was on this computer, only issue so far with Kubuntu has been display not showing up on boot up. There is a fix for it but really can't be ****ed to be honest.

[Spaced]

How better is linux compared to vista/xp?? Might think of installing one.

Can anyone recommend me a good distro?

Start by downloading an ISO of ubuntu and go from there. It requires more reading than windows it's not just click and shoot for everything. Lots and lots of free software. Ubuntu seems to be pretty well supported.

[Just_a_stocker]

well my personal opinion is that Linux is great if your a fecking geek who likes to configure every frekin program by hand..

I have ubuntu here on duel boot,,, I think XP ****s on it..

Mandrake ,, a little better but didnt run wine well or at all.

now try free bsd and that gotta be a geeks paradise had that for a while too,,yep well i dont need a server ..

remember apache on Linux was good server gear and might still be,, as far as desktop they all are ****,, but I would like to see Mandrake Pro and the likes....nope to me its a waste if your using office.

PHP and apache runs on windows anyway so what so great about Linux excpet for the fact non one tries to hack it because its hard to crash or somthing,,good for servers for this reason..


Linux... geeks rave about it,,, but in reality take it or leave it.

also ,, evr been in a Linux chatrrom or forum,,,WHAT A PACK OF JERKOFF ANAL RETENTIVE ASS HOLES..!!!!!!!!!!

you can make a physical firewall with a spare computer and a free firewall cop program .. then again just keep it on cd,,

[Trewman]

Been running Redhat for years now.. since redhat 3. Now onto fedora core 8. Wouldn't pay for an OS if you paid me. Any linux help needed just ask!

[bezz]

the only stability issues i ever found on ubuntu was terrible support for ati video cards. Ati's video card driver at the time was pathetic, couldnt even run flash at full speed using a radeon x1800. I'm thinking of putting ubuntu on an old laptop I've got lying around, linux is great on older computers whereas xp is a resource hog.. its all alot of effort tho!

[tommo82]

Fedora C4 here

[albert5268]

Have used mandrake, Red Hat and a few older versions. Even have a copy of UNIX somewhere with full manuals (of bible-like proportions, absolutely huge). But uni means i have to use Windows, 99% of the time i miss my free resources.

too much fluff in windows

[Darren]

Interesting to read 'whats the best distro out there', IMHO there isn't the best, it's what fits into what you require. Desktop use or server use?

I have tried moving over to linux a number of times using the more popular flavours out there but Windows always seems to win out purely on the fact that applications are designed for it.

Instead of going through the whole dual boot rubbish I would run VM's if your not sure, you can do what you want and kill whatever you wish without the worry of screwing something up. Worst case you delete the VM and start again.

[albert5268]

Couldn't find my copy of Unix to show how massive and complicated the manuals were but i did find this little treasure....



It even says "Includes 3 1/2" disks".

[Astranomical]

HAHA, man, that brings back memories - QBasic was the first language I ever learnt to program in, back when I was 12.

[Spaced]

Interesting to read 'whats the best distro out there', IMHO there isn't the best, it's what fits into what you require. Desktop use or server use?

I have tried moving over to linux a number of times using the more popular flavours out there but Windows always seems to win out purely on the fact that applications are designed for it.

Instead of going through the whole dual boot rubbish I would run VM's if your not sure, you can do what you want and kill whatever you wish without the worry of screwing something up. Worst case you delete the VM and start again.

To be honest the only reason I'm going to switch back to windows is for torrents. My legal torrents are just too slow under linux. If it wasn't such an old computer I'd run windows under VMware just for utorrent.