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4 | 6.25% |
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9 | 14.06% |
| Xandros Linux |
  
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1 | 1.56% |
| Gentoo Linux |
  
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2 | 3.13% |
| Debian Linux |
  
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9 | 14.06% |
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2 | 3.13% |
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4 | 6.25% |
| Yoper linux |
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2 | 3.13% |
| Suse linux |
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12 | 18.75% |
| Other |
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22 | 34.38% |
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05-01-2005, 07:01 AM
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What is your favourite Free operating System
I have written this post to find out more About user preferences, and to make it more of a guide to selection of Alternative Operating Systems.
So I start the Post with my favourite O/S Linux YOS - Yoper from www.yoper.com In the end I might make a poll with diferent selections P.S. if the moderator is interested in making this post a sticky i have no objection |
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05-01-2005, 08:33 AM
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Fedora & Slackware Linux
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05-01-2005, 11:25 AM
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05-01-2005, 06:47 PM
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MandrakeMove, just got it and it works great on my PC. I've had problems with RedHat and dropped it at 9.0. I have yet to try SlackWare and I hear great things about it but all my HD's are full.
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05-01-2005, 06:53 PM
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Debian, Debian, Debian and recently some of the ones based on it like Ubuntu and Xandros because of thier fantastic GUI's and ease of use. I really do like Slackware and still run it one machine for security testing and all, but apt-get is just too sweet
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05-01-2005, 07:42 PM
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Slackware currently, thinking about going back to SuSE.
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05-02-2005, 01:56 AM
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Slackware currently, but thinking about trying Gentoo.
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05-02-2005, 02:03 AM
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Slackware, Debian, and Ubuntu(based on Debian I guess) are the ones I will be using as soon as I get a mouse for my newly aquired old clunker of a machine. They have all worked well for me and were a joy to use.
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05-02-2005, 03:32 AM
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DamnSmallLinux
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05-02-2005, 05:43 AM
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Suse 9.1 dual booting with Winows ME on my main drive and at the moment Ubuntu on my other drive. I really like Suse and will be updating it to 9.2 soon it is the disto I use most at the moment. Ubuntu is a disto I have only recently started to use but it is also very good and I have Xandros, Yoper,Knopix, Mandrake and FC3 all on CD/DVD to try out (some I have used before but some time ago)
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05-03-2005, 11:31 PM
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When I mess around with Linux I like Knoppix, and recently I have been trying Ubuntu Linux.
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05-14-2005, 06:00 AM
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has anyone tried FreeBSD?
www.freebsd.org I tried it when it was out way back in 1991...  I do not see it as one of polling options. NOTE: A lot of Internet BACKBONE ROUTERs uses FreeBSD!(ISPs) Well, in fact, all of "Juniper Networks" routers use it, dont know about Cisco routers though.( u know......T1, ATM, OC-3, Oc-12...OC-192[192MBytes/s !!!!]  )a typical ADSL connection( 1.5M) goes at about 200KBytes/s-320KBytes/s. Last edited by alfie2; 05-14-2005 at 06:10 AM. |
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05-14-2005, 06:29 AM
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05-14-2005, 08:26 AM
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So far we have:
#Free DOS http://www.freedos.org# #Free BSD http://www.freebsd.org# Linux distros: #Fedora core http://fedora.redhat.com# #Xandros http://www.xandros.com# #Gentoo http://www.gentoo.org# #Debian http://www.debian.org# #DamnSmall http://www.damnsmalllinux.org# #Slackware http://www.slackware.com# #Suse http://www.novell.com/linux/suse# #Yoper http://www.yoper.com# #Ubunto http://www.ubuntulinux.org# #Mandriva www.mandrivalinux.com# #Mepis http://www.mepis.org# #Knoppix http://www.knoppix.org# #Gnoppix http://www.gnoppix.org# Any more different o/s's I should know about? |
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05-14-2005, 04:32 PM
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From Distrowatch.com. Has a top hits type list, those are the first 24. Must be there for some reason. Try one of the top ones and just see if ya like it. Most besides Ubuntu, Mandriva, Fedora, SUSE, Debian, Gentoo, Knoppix, and Slackware are going to have a smaller support base and it may be harder to find help when needed. All of the above have many users and many forums ready to help.
1 Ubuntu 2 Mandriva 3 MEPIS 4 Fedora 5 SUSE 6 Debian 7 KNOPPIX 8 Gentoo 9 Slackware 10 Damn Small 11 Xandros 12 FreeBSD 13 PCLinuxOS 14 SLAX 15 KANOTIX 16 CentOS 17 Libranet 18 Red Hat 19 Yoper 20 Arch 21 Vector 22 Linspire 23 Vidalinux 24 Kubuntu |
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05-15-2005, 09:46 AM
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What about web sites url.
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05-23-2005, 05:06 AM
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NEW:
Sun Microsystems's SOLARIS 10 is free too!  And there is a version for the x86 (INTEL, AMD). hardware compablity and specs: http://www.sun.com/bigadmin/hcl/data/sol/ http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/specs.jsp download free from Sun Micro: http://www.sun.com/software/solaris/get.jsp |
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05-23-2005, 05:12 PM
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I really like Mandrake 10 which is on the comp in my sig and runs incredibly well but it appears that it has undergone a name-change to mandriva
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05-23-2005, 05:17 PM
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05-23-2005, 09:35 PM
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Yea im running Mandrake 10.1. I was using Fedora Core 2 but had a couple problems with drivers so switched to mandrake. Im thinking of trying out suse just to see if its any different than mandrake.
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05-30-2005, 12:29 AM
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Operationally SuSE seems about the same as Mandrake or Fedora, but I think it's hardware recognition may be slightly better. SuSE does have a different "feel" than other linux flavors. It incorperates many of it's own icons so on the surface it doesn't look like the others.
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05-30-2005, 08:11 AM
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Am I the only person who uses BeOS? I find it a lot more instantly user-friendly than linux...
I currently dual boot between 98SE and BeOS R5 Max Edition. |
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Where can i download a copy of the os the original site? Last edited by Ind-PC_student; 06-02-2005 at 06:16 AM. Reason: miss spelling |
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06-02-2005, 07:51 AM
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www.bebits.com
You really want Max Edition, which you can find here Depending on your hardware, though, it may not work. I know someone who tried to install it on an Athlon 64 system and it wouldn't boot. Just burn the iso to a disc and boot into it... it'll do it all for you (except partitioning). |
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06-02-2005, 08:57 AM
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MEPIS Linux, can't get easier than this.
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06-08-2005, 07:27 AM
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And to think that there was only 2 or 3 types of operating systems, what I have found out with this topicis there are so many choices .
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06-10-2005, 02:36 AM
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C: DOS/ run:
RUNDOS/RUN I believe that was a T-shirt on the simpsons not sure though and I think I got all the :s and /s right but I don't really know for me it's linux suse all the way!! |
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06-17-2005, 02:24 PM
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My fav live CD distros.
Insert linux - www.inside-security.de/insert_en.html - good system rescue toolkit system rescue CD - www.sysresccd.org/ - another good toolkit Puppy - www.goosee.com/puppy/ - looks like win95 but with better performance. feather linux - featherlinux.berlios.de/ - V.nice More to come. |
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