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hooray,

feeling a bit less evil today, because I dual booted my PC. Now got XP and Kubuntu linux.

anyone else using some form of linux? i reckon it's going to be a good month before im used to it and get rid of windows completely...

i feel like i should be talking like those peeps in south park who buy hybrid cars 'good for you!', liking the smell of my own farts n that...hehehehe

I prefer to use FreeBSD over linux but I have to work with SLES/SLED at work.

used to have to play around with SLED for work too, never used the freebsd thing. its all command line rite? sounds pretty badass, very robust system if wiki is anything to go by.

afaik every linux program works in freebsd, only the kernel is different.
check pc-bsd for example

I've been using gentoo linux since 2004

Nazoreth wrote:used to have to play around with SLED for work too, never used the freebsd thing. its all command line rite? sounds pretty badass, very robust system if wiki is anything to go by.

It's just like any other NIX system in that respect, just load up x windows and you have a gui interface.

ooOooo gentoo looks good, the penguin is pretty cute too...

so gentoo is like a cross between linux and freebsd? plus portage thingy?

i like this thread, who'd have thought i could learn something new on a monday morning

Nazoreth wrote:ooOooo gentoo looks good, the penguin is pretty cute too...

so gentoo is like a cross between linux and freebsd? plus portage thingy?

well.. there's freebsd port but I don't think its officially supported yet.
portage is just the package management system used in gentoo.

hmm mite look into these alternatives after ive got used to an easy linux distribution first...

just out of interest, what do u lot do for work? IT support a small courier/chauffeur company in west london here, hoping to be doing similar job for google in a couple of months

i use redhat enterprise extensively at work so i've got CentOS on my home pc (which is basically a free version of redhat - www.centos.org) to learn my way around it. i'm not sure i'd use it at home over windows, though. don't really see the need.

just out of interest, what do u lot do for work?

i work in a 'service management centre' for Siemens, monitoring systems/cameras and doing troubleshooting/issue management whenever something breaks. as you can probably tell from my post count things don't break that often

that's kinda like my job, if i keep things working, i never need to do anything and don't get called in outside business hours. if im lazy and don't keep things running well, i get phone calls at 6am on a saturday morning (just when i get home from fwd)

i decided finally to dual boot because i want to learn how to use an alternative to windows properly. i can use a linux machine, know quite a few commands, but have never set one up before. never tried to use one as an alternative y'know. no point rinsing microsoft for being shite if u still rely on it for everything. if this goes wrong, its my fault and its on me to fix it.

I tried Live CD and I tried dual boot but (ubuntu) just seemed too different. In the end Vista just sucked so bad I installed it on my work pc and had to learn it. One month on and I have it for work and home. Windows has dissapeared from our house and I have not yet seen a reason to switch back. It's been a revelation.

If you love Firefox over IE then you will love Linux over Windows in the same way. I have a link to a free PDF of one of the better books if anyone wants it.

linux book?

PM pls?

danke

drbluebeat wrote:
If you love Firefox over IE then you will love Linux over Windows in the same way

exactly how this all came about for me

I've been running some flavor of linux for almost 10 years now. Right now I'm running Gentoo on my primary desktop, Ubuntu on a desktop that I'm slowly turning into a MythTV box, and Debian on my (shitty) laptop.

drbluebeat wrote:If you love Firefox over IE then you will love Linux over Windows in the same way. I have a link to a free PDF of one of the better books if anyone wants it.

if it's a free book, then all good, but if not, please don't pass it around, for the same reason you don't pass around tunes either. lot of dudes who write those books aren't exactly loaded, and most of us all do it for the love.

whats the point of os's like linux.. seems like its all for nerd cred. Is there anything that you can do that you can't on windows???

tempest wrote:whats the point of os's like linux.. seems like its all for nerd cred. Is there anything that you can do that you can't on windows???

Steal your credit card #.

But seriously though, if you're not interested, don't bother. If you don't need something Windows cannot provide, you don't need Linux.

Repping Debian.

so its for the 1337 h4xx0rzzz ey

i'd imagine linux wouldn't support heaps of programs that are for windows/osx???

whats the hype atealtha? what is it that i would need on linux that windows can't provide? just curious is all

tempest wrote:so its for the 1337 h4xx0rzzz ey

i'd imagine linux wouldn't support heaps of programs that are for windows/osx???

whats the hype atealtha? what is it that i would need on linux that windows can't provide? just curious is all

There are TONS of apps in Linux which won't work on Windows. It's just not games and solitaire which people are used to.

There is a huge advantage to using Linux for many tasks. It's just a steep learning curve which naturally leads to nerd cred.

But don't believe the hype. Ubuntu is good, but unless you are willing to learn, you'll be browsing and checking e-mail like the rest of the regular users, just without viruses. That's not a bad thing, of course. It'll be a better experience but you won't take advantage the way I do.

Sorry if this lets you down. I'm tired of pushing an agenda which doesn't benefit me.