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odin_dax

1st June 2007, 01:48 AM

Just wondering how many people are still stuck on WinDoze, because we all know it's shit.

Esophagus

1st June 2007, 05:58 AM

I use my family computer, which is windows. Saving for a mac laptop though.

odin_dax

1st June 2007, 06:08 AM

I use my family computer, which is windows. Saving for a mac laptop though.

9 views and only 3 votes? That's no good!

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I can understand using windows. I added XP to the laptop to dual boot, just so I can get around all the software compatability issues. It's such a pain in the ass sometimes... Peercasting software never works, flash, java and media codecs are always lagging or don't work, games don't work without going through the bullshit Wine. Ah, well, can't have everything, like windows and security.

Stone

1st June 2007, 11:02 AM

Moving to the computers board...

S25

1st June 2007, 02:52 PM

Freebsd, And Ubuntu on some machines with weird hardware!

Stone

1st June 2007, 04:03 PM

I use XP Pro, Suse and Solaris. Am still trying to get osX working on my PC.

Eulux

11th June 2007, 09:46 PM

1 fbsd, 1 xp pro, 1 knopix, 2 2003 server enterprise...and a personal OS that I am currently working on with a friend of mine. we got the kernel written, now writing the OS.

Stone

12th June 2007, 11:55 PM

Cool! If you want any graphics done gimme a shout! Will help with testing too! I love trying different OS's, although I stick to XP and Suse mainly. Fucking osX bitch still don't want to work for me! I think it's my gfx card that fucks it up during the boot.

Eulux

13th June 2007, 10:24 AM

might take you up on that offer, if we ever get to the gui part...well..we're at the gui part sort of...but...just getting some horrid results. fucking up the coding somewhere...I think the OS just needs to be started from scratch again, or maybe a language change....but...anyways, we realize it's quite an undertaking...it's not a modified kernel...our end goal is an OS that can open apps from all different OS', including our own. the kernel can run on either mac hardware or windows...it's an attempt at an all around OS....

actually gonna have to add some to the kernel due to some new hardware...I imagine getting dual core is gonna be a bitch. gonna have to get my hands on one...

but the question is...why bother? eventually, I'm gonna come to a point where I either sell out, or give it away...it'd be way too difficult to try and market it on our own...

meh, this isn't really the thread to talk about this...well, it is kinda...OS thread.

I'll leave that for y'all to decide.

Stone

13th June 2007, 04:57 PM

I'm assuming that it's being programmed in Assembler and C. Am I right?

Also, is it natively 32 or 64bit? If it's compatabile with PC and Mac then does it automatically detect whether you have a BIOS or EFI? I can imagine that multithreading it is a bitch, but it's probably better to implement multithreading for quite alot of cores now rather than in a few years get stuck with only the capability for quad threads with the generation of 16core CPU's rolling off the production line.

Eulux

16th June 2007, 12:56 AM

we originally started a 32, but decided to go for the 64 instead...cause by the time we're probably done it'll be the standard I imagine. yes, it does the auto detection...we toyed with the idea of having a dual kernel...in which when it would detect, it would automatically go for which hardware set...but...with mac going in their direction...they're soon gonna be pc hardware...

and you have no idea...I want to kill people for making multi-core procs...assembler is a given...and yes, kernel is in c. OS in c++...

thought about fortran or cobol just for laughs...the college I was working at was giving old textbooks away, and they had a shitload of them on cobol...but my partner threatened to beat me senseless with a 3u rackmount case....

I also thought about mentioning BEos to him...saying we had to make that compatible as well...but...I annoy him enough as it is.

eminent

16th June 2007, 07:31 PM

linux?

Stone

16th June 2007, 07:31 PM

BE OS as in Haiku?

Eulux

17th June 2007, 08:10 AM

linux?

mar?

and...didn't realize that BEos still existed under any form...so...upon further research, yes I suppose...

Stone

17th June 2007, 09:54 PM

Haiku is a really nice OS.

I just installed Ubuntu 7.04 to have a look. I'm really impressed! I know it's considered a n00bish distro, and that's what I wanted to see... How it stacks up against Windows, and it is so much easier to install and use.

It's amazing that 7.04 has way more advanced graphical features than Vista (which turns its nose up at my test machine which in fairness is a heap of crap) and runs smoothly and quickly. It automatically detects and configures all of my hardware, even my ralink 2500 wifi card which has caused me no end of trouble with other distro's.

I have to say though, I'm not a big fan of Gnome, I prefer KDE. Can't wait to try out Beryl. I have a lot more time on hand now to tinker with my test machine because I'm waiting on replacement ram for my main pc.

Eulux

18th June 2007, 02:10 PM

as far as my recommended linux distros go...

slackware, it's a beautiful thing. probably my favorite name for a distro...SLAX is the live boot version...

as far as ubuntu...if you like kde so much, you shoulda downloaded kubuntu...it comes with kde. ubuntu is probably the most popular distro at the moment...used to be fedora, but quite a few people I know have switched to ubuntu...also, linux mint is another great ubuntu based distro.

as far as being n00bish...I've always found mandrake/mandriva the best for beginners...it's what I started on. I still fuck with it every now and then...it's a phenomenal distro, in my opinion...

debian is kinda my role model of sorts...if I can make a better, more encompassing OS than them, I'll be happy.

SUSE...now openSUSE...not huge on it...but have to admit, novell has a good idea. better than fedora at any rate...

FBSD....godlike. FreeSBIE is nice also...live boot.

yellow dog is so cool...the company has sooo much promise...haven't read too much on the PS3 thing they got going on, but...sounds interesting.

m0n0wall...firewall...awesome...bsd based...

knopperdisk I occasionally fun on my flash drive...

knoppmyth...for it's ease of install. I'm also a huge fan of knoppix. I still run 3.9...cause I can. they became focused on dvd boots after 4.0...awesome, by the way...

shark linux is on my dual kernel now...

I'm a linux whore lately...lots of switching and testing and idea generation..."hmmm...that looks nice, but it'd be better if it also did this..."

that sort of thing.

I think my next tattoo is gonna be tux...or the bsd devil...

Stone

18th June 2007, 02:34 PM

The only reason I installed Ubuntu 7.04 was because the disc came free with a mag. I couldn't be bothered downloading Kubuntu when I'll probably install a different distro anytime soon. Beryl worked great, but then I installed the proprietry fglrx ATi driver and it fucked it up.

Stone

20th June 2007, 11:20 PM

I think my next tattoo is gonna be tux...or the bsd devil...

How about this...
http://www.rorta.net/images/bsd-tux.jpg

Eulux

25th June 2007, 11:16 AM

y'know, I did see that one on GIS...and I thought about it...but there's a nice one with tux smoking a pipe...and my friend drew a kickass bsd devil...or I could always get more tarot cards...

Mr.V

26th June 2007, 01:00 PM

I've had a Dual boot with Windows XP Pro + Ubuntu Feisty Fawn.
Unfortunatly, I had some problems like compatability issues with the linux distro.
But hey I know, No pain no gain.
At the moment of speaking, i'm using Windows Xp Pro only. :sad2:

REL0AD

26th June 2007, 03:15 PM

XP.

Windows is all I know, sadly. :boggled:

odin_dax

27th June 2007, 02:50 AM

odin_dax

27th June 2007, 02:51 AM

XP.

Windows is all I know, sadly. :boggled:

That's all I knew before Windows started breaking down. Even a reinstall didn't work. It's not a big leap to Linux, especially Kubuntu or Ubuntu.

Stone

27th June 2007, 10:57 AM

Ubuntu is easy, and chances are that it will detect all your hardware and load appropriate drivers automatically, which Windows doesn't do.

REL0AD

28th June 2007, 12:08 AM

What do you do? Go to a shop and have it installed or can you just download it?

http://www.badpenguin.org/wallpapers/devil.gif

DoctaD

28th June 2007, 01:26 AM

What do you do? Go to a shop and have it installed or can you just download it?
http://www.freebsd.org/where.html

Stone

28th June 2007, 10:09 AM

https://shipit.ubuntu.com/

There you can download it or order free cd's of it.

REL0AD

28th June 2007, 12:21 PM

Cheers lads.

Eulux

12th July 2007, 10:51 AM

for anyone wanting to get into linux:

go for it.

www.distrowatch.com

mandriva is easy to use...ubuntu is nice also...though if I were about to install ubuntu, go for mint.

dazed

10th August 2007, 04:49 AM

gentoo ftw!

screamer

26th August 2007, 08:06 PM

The only place I run Windows is in Parallels or VMWare! Then, only for the specific tasks I need to use it for.

I run an XP Media PC for some TV -> web stuff.

Otherwise, OS X and Ubuntu are primary with DSL live CD and OpenBSD being my secondary choices for systems where I need less functionality and smaller footprints.

DSL (www.damnsmalllinux.org) roxors, and it makes an effective platform for using older machines for dedicated purposes!

odin_dax

26th August 2007, 09:08 PM

I'd rather have XP over Vista. I have no experience with 2000.

Stone

27th August 2007, 12:41 PM

Then again Win2k AS was designed to support upto 16 CPUs and 64 GB of RAM. Even though I only use one CPU (Athlon XP 1600+) and 512 MB of PC2100 RAM.

Wow, you really don't know what you are talking about... A 32-bit machine can only support up to 4GB of RAM, to use more RAM you need a 64-bit machine with a 64-bit OS. In fact, without PAE switched on you'll only be able to use 3GB or even less because Windows assigns hardware addresses to memory addresses, meaning that if you have 4GB of physical RAM, Windows can only use 3 or less GB of that. I know that Win2k AS was released to certain OEM's as a 64-bit OS for Itanium processors but your Athlon certainly can't run that.

Axxess of Evil

30th October 2007, 08:40 AM

I'm cruising with XP but I plan on making the big leap to Mac OS X soon.

RainKing

31st October 2007, 07:44 PM

I started in 1982 by building my own Z80 motherboard from chips with 30ga wire, a wire wrap tool, and a soldering pencil; loaded MS-DOS, programmed it in assembler and BASIC. "Ah, Youth! Pass the bottle..."*
:alcoholic
*(obscure reference points available)

After giving up on OS/2 and discovering Linux (Slackware with the 0.99 kernel) in 1996, I became a Linux nut. I currently run Slackware, Debian, CentOS, Ubuntu, DSL, Suse, and use hosted space running RedHat. My next purchase will be a MacBook Pro. I am exploring FreeBSD, PC-BSD and Solaris 10. I've used AIX, HP-UX, Solaris and (to a lesser extent) MVS in work environments.

Bottom line: Freedom rules! (as in free speech and free beer) GNU/Linux is the clear choice.

zero16

1st February 2008, 12:00 AM

I use vista on my new laptop an puppy linux on my old computer, which is mainly used by my dad. I actually like vista. Puppy linux isnt all that great but its pretty simple though and its free!

Th0r

1st February 2008, 12:13 AM

I run XP SP2 on my computers and Vista on my newest PC. Vista gives you everything you want as is very user friendly. XP is probably better, but its not as easy to use. Macs are unfriendly and I cant get my head round them. Linux [there are tons of distros and I've experimented with three] is good, but I dont run it any more. I never really got into it.

death11284

1st February 2008, 02:24 AM

I personally believe debian is the most suited choice in an operating system, at least for me. It has a interface that, while very simplistic in nature, allows for complex operations as well. It is great for beginner and pro alike, the gui is simple, and the helps in the different terminals are very well written. It does not place limitations on what you can do as a super user such as well..I'm not pointing any fingers *cough* Ubuntu *cough*. It is as customizable as any linux distribution, more Windows-friendly than most, and it runs out of the box.

Stone

1st February 2008, 10:43 AM

At the moment, running XP with a Debian virtual machine in VMware Server. Runs very smoothly, using Fluxbox for the desktop.

odin_dax

1st February 2008, 03:48 PM

blaksun

20th February 2008, 05:52 PM

slackware. <3

stone blackbox is better than fluxbox.

Stone

22nd February 2008, 06:44 PM

I use slackware at work. Again in a VM 'cos my work email is through an exchange server so therefore I have to use Outlook.

iceman69

25th March 2008, 07:56 AM

https://shipit.ubuntu.com/

There you can download it or order free cd's of it.

oh shit thanks a million I have been looking for this!

Th0r

18th April 2008, 07:42 PM

https://shipit.ubuntu.com/

There you can download it or order free cd's of it.

Thanks for posting Stone!

I received my CD yesterday, two weeks after ordering. It comes with the disk, a disk sleeve with installation instructions and advice. Plus stickers... Fun for all!

jtpinhead

30th April 2008, 02:27 AM

I installed an ubuntu dual boot when I was bored. My wireless internet adapter didnt work, so I went back to Windoze, went to the ubuntu forums, and got my help there. Long story short, I kept going to solve my problems in ubuntu, failing, then going back to windows to forum post about it. After 40 or so reboots I had enough and here I am on WinXP. I am still open to ubuntu if I can get it compatible. I like the lightweightedness and quickness. I already tried ndiswrapper and all that jazz.

death11284

30th April 2008, 03:04 AM

Ubuntu is Debian based...

Yes, but it's debian without root power..or hardcore customization..

I might have a philosophy based on Kant's categorical imperative , but I might not believe in a deantological criterion to achieve morality, a MAJOR difference, but it would still be based on the CI.

A lot of games run off the doom 3 engine, that are EXTREMELY dissimilar.

The only distro I stay away from is slax..it's just annoying at that point.