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AynRand
AynRand
WTF is up with this OS ive been hearing so many thumbs-up about? Is it THAT good? If so, then why? Good for Games and programming? or just Anti microsoft sentiment? Konrad {!!!!!!!!!BLAH!!!!!!!!!}
ImmaGNUman
ImmaGNUman
Its a stable, free OS.

Check it out for yourself

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A wise man once said "A person with half a clue is more dangerous than a person with or without one."

Edited by - ImmaGNUman on August 12, 2000 8:22:58 PM
-----------------------------A wise man once said "A person with half a clue is more dangerous than a person with or without one."The Micro$haft BSOD T-Shirt
JoeDark
JoeDark
Personally I like it. But I''m not sure if it''s for everyone quite yet. I''m one of those people who love to sit around and tweak my OS forever so I think it''s great. Honestly the main reason I like it is because it''s a fun OS that actually requires some knowledge to use. Plus, you can''t beat the price.

JoeDark
ZenGeneral
ZenGeneral
It is great for servers

FreeBSD is better thou

Why Not?
phueppl1
phueppl1
I tried it a few months ago...
I loved the stability, but i had troubles getting the ISDN-, Sound- and graphics card running (It was a Rage128, and i had to wait for the Suse X-Server whatever thing.).

And if u aren''t used to dos, don''t even try Linux (upper/lower case sensitivity, / instead of \ etc...)
Another big thing was the Lilo boot thing... I wasn''t able to run W98 on the same computer without using a bootdisk
(It stopped at the 2nd L (LI_)

But maybe in a few months i''m willing to try the newest version... (I hate my ISA ISDN Card grml grml)

ok,
cya,
Phil

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blue-lightning
blue-lightning
phueppl1: I had the same problem. That thing with the cylinder count being higher than 1024.

I got the new version of redhat and it was fixed though.
For a good time hit Alt-F4! Go ahead try it, all the cool people are doing it.
ARCHIGAMER
ARCHIGAMER
I had a problem with the partitions i resized my partitions with partition magic and it messed up windows big time with linux on it. A time before that i resized the partition and linux crashed during set up and i had to have a new hard drive put in lucky my comp was insured. it really is a great OS but it messes up other stuff on the system.
I wish there was a button on my monitor to turn up the intellegince. Theres a button called 'brightness' but it doesn't work
Later
Later
Face it- (most) PCs are made for Windoze! Until we get over the ignorance and aren''t afraid to break the mold on a large scale, we''ll make some progress toward a better world (and a better selection of OSs). TAFN-

p.s. Fanatic? Whoa! When did that happen?

Later,
Later

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Is the infinite number of numbers between zero and one any less than the infinite number of numbers between zero and infinity?
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Later, Later**Is the infinite number of numbers between zero and one any less than the infinite number of numbers between zero and infinity?**
blue-lightning
blue-lightning
A word of advice, DON''T USE LINUX''S PARTITION TOOLS! It always screws up my hard drive. Use something like partition magic if you are willing to pay for a tool, or use ranish partition manager (this let me fix what linux screwed up) http://www.users.intercom.com/~ranish/part/.

Ranish is kinda a low-level tool, so you do need to know what you''re doing. It also seems to have a glitch for making linux swap partitions. After you make it you have to change the id. Also make sure windows can read your new windows partition before you go through the trouble of installing linux.
For a good time hit Alt-F4! Go ahead try it, all the cool people are doing it.
Muzzafarath
Muzzafarath
>> Good for Games and programming? <<

Not very good for games programming, Windows is better since it supports more hardware. But for other types of programming though, it's good (since it comes with compilers, interpreters etc.). It comes with more software than any other OS I've seen, and on top of that, it's FREE!

Another nice thing about it is that you get the source code to almost everything that comes with it.

And it's not for everyone just yet. If you don't have any experience typing commands into a command shell, you might not want to try out Linux without a good book by your side. There's almost always something that requires you to use a shell when you first install Linux (X configuration files, setting up new users).

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I had a problem with the partitions i resized my partitions with partition magic and it messed up windows big time with linux on it. A time before that i resized the partition and linux crashed during set up and i had to have a new hard drive put in lucky my comp was insured. it really is a great OS but it messes up other stuff on the system.


If something messes up stuff on the sytem it's Windows! (Overwriting the MBR without even letting us know for example). And why did you have to put in a new harddrive? Couldn't you simply boot with a DOS bootdisk, use fdisk to partition your hd the way it was before you tried to install Linux, and then run the Windows installation program? Resizing partions is always dangerous. It's better to do a clean install.

Edited by - Muzzafarath on August 13, 2000 7:15:50 AM
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dwarfsoft
dwarfsoft
That is definitely the plus... But Windoze is still better for game programming (like Muzza said) because it supports more, and is easier to program for more hardware... Windoze is unfortunately taking over the market. If only they would release their source and help the Open-source movement

-Chris Bennett ("Insanity" of Dwarfsoft)

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Muzzafarath
Muzzafarath
If MS releases the source to Windows everyone will see what a hack it is and noone will use it That''s why they don''t release the source
I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, "What is that, swearing?" - Larry Wall
dwarfsoft
dwarfsoft
They were considering it... But I haven''t heard anything else since I read that article... I hate using it, the only reason I do is because: You can''t beat that market share (also the reason why I program for it)... The world WOULD be a better place without it though

-Chris Bennett ("Insanity" of Dwarfsoft)

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Staffan
Staffan
Actually I find the Linux disk tools quite usefull - compared to the MS version of fdisk. I always use the Linux fdisk/cfdisk rather than MS fdisk. The reason is obvious You can''t even make ext2fs partitions with Microsoft''s fdisk . It''s a shame I don''t have enough hd space to have it installed anymore... A new harddrive, linux and BeOS..that''s somethign I could use right now..

"Paranoia is the belief in a hidden order behind the visible." - Anonymous
Staffan
Staffan
It''s YET another OS. www.be.com

"Paranoia is the belief in a hidden order behind the visible." - Anonymous
Staffan
Staffan
I haven''t got the chance to try it yet but it looks really promising . Real nice look of the GUI

"Paranoia is the belief in a hidden order behind the visible." - Anonymous

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