Alternate OS's

**SoccerDog** · 06-08-08, 03:10 PM

I myself have tried Ubuntu, Fedora, Plan 9, Gentoo, just to mess around with other OS's. Most of them i found to be too much trouble to mess with, but I still use Ubuntu from an external HD. Hardy Heron is a vast improvement over Gutsy Gibbon, i've found. I recommend all you guys to try it out, just from the live CD.

Obviously, windows is the only serious choice for gaming, but since linux is free, i love messing around with alternate OS's. Never tried Red Hat since its not free, and macs are just gay.

**Bunni** · 06-08-08, 03:18 PM

Ive got:
XP, vista 64, ubuntu, gentoo, sabayon. What makes matters worse is that i have the cursed Creative XFI platnum sound card. I practically am garunteed to have to manually install the drivers for every linux distro Q_Q.

How is fedora? Ive heard of a lot using it but never got the chance to dl a live cd

**SoccerDog** · 06-08-08, 03:22 PM

I didn't spend much time getting fedora to work. Like you, i have driver issues. ATI + Linux = problems. It looked exactly like Ubuntu to me, with a blue theme instead of an orange theme.

(btw, i'm in ubuntu right now. Its the first day i've really tried out the newest release and i love it!)

**Bunni** · 06-08-08, 03:24 PM

Originally Posted by SoccerDog

I didn't spend much time getting fedora to work. Like you, i have driver issues. ATI + Linux = problems. It looked exactly like Ubuntu to me, with a blue theme instead of an orange theme.

(btw, i'm in ubuntu right now. Its the first day i've really tried out the newest release and i love it!)

Most definitely, i live the new distro, though i have to say i do enjoy sabayons, support for compiz right off the live dvd.

**geeseven** · 06-08-08, 05:50 PM

I am rockin' a dual boot Gentoo and OSX on a PPC powerbook, Ubuntu on the media box, vista on the "gaming" box, FreeBSD on the file server, Ubuntu on the web server, Red Hat on a random test box and Debian on my work station. At some point I would like to play with Opensolaris.

**Gumby** · 06-09-08, 01:39 PM

I have used:
Mac 9 and 10 (I used to have to work on them at a networking company I worked for, customers would call us to add a Mac or two to their business network)
FreeBSD (I used to work at an ISP and we used this for several of our servers)
Gentoo (I used to use this as my main OS at work when I was at smaller companies and I had total control over my desktop)
Red Hat (I tried this before settling on Gentoo)
Mandrake (Same as RedHat)
Slackware (built a car MP3 player with this)
Solaris (several servers at work use this)
BeOS (I messed around with this for a bit thinking it could be as useful as Linux)
HP-UX (I used to have to repair a lot of HP servers)
SCO Unix (The ISP I worked at had a few of these as well)
Every version of windows Ever. Yes, even NT4 server and workstation.

**WileECyte** · 06-09-08, 02:23 PM

On a day to day basis at work I deal with AIX (5.2), Solaris (8 and 10), and Linux (RedHat Enterprise Linux 4). My work laptop is running Windows XP SP2.

At home, I've got 2 laptops and desktop all running Vista Home Premium (32 bit). My kids have 2 desktops running Windows XP SP3.

Started using PCs back in the mid 80's. (IBM PC 4.77Mhz 8088 + 640k RAM FTW!) PC-DOS 2.x all the way through various iterations of PC/MS-DOS through 6.x.

UNIX OSes I have worked with previously FreeBSD (2.x and forward), too many Linux distributions to count, HP-UX, IRIX, Ultrix, SunOs 4.x, AIX (3.2.5, 4.1.x, 4.2.x, 4.3.x)...

I've worked with pretty much every version of Windows (Workstation and Server) starting with Windows 3.0 all the way through to Windows Server 2008. I think ME may be the only version I haven't done much with beyond reloading the machine with Win98.

Limited exposure to MacOS 7.x (computer lab on campus in college). Tinkered with MacOS X under VMWare. Really like MACs. The whole concept of the hardware platform being locked down coupled with a UNIX-based OS with a nice GUI and decent applications is attractive. I just don't want to pay that premium.

**IronStomach** · 06-09-08, 02:31 PM

Interesting how many people voted Ubuntu. I'd be using that exclusively if it weren't for the whole gaming thing, but as it stands I have a 20 GB partition for messing around with editing and recording on Ubuntu, and a 120 GB Vista 32 partition for gaming.

**Ewok** · 06-09-08, 03:13 PM

Aye, it if wasn't for gaming, I wouldn't be using Windows.

I've dealt with most Linux distros at some time or another; I even customized one for the last company I worked for (based on www.slax.org)

I can barely stand Windows nowadays; everything it can do that I need to do (except games), I can do more efficiently and effectively on Mac or Linux.

**Gumby** · 06-10-08, 11:04 AM

Originally Posted by Ewok

Aye, it if wasn't for gaming, I wouldn't be using Windows...

...I can barely stand Windows nowadays; everything it can do that I need to do (except games), I can do more efficiently and effectively on Mac or Linux.

Word. My computer at home has XPSP2. All I ever use it for is games. I have other PCs that do more useful things and none of them use windows.