Linux/Unix

[Steve]

Is any one using Linux/Unix OS's on their pc's! I am seriously thinking of changing over to it, using a seperate partition. MS is getting to be too expensive. MS v 7 wil be out next year, and is already on sale, but the cost!!! :naughty:
I am also considering apps' like Mandriva (http://www.mandriva.org/)(formerly Mandrake), SuSe (http://www.novell.com/linux/), Fedora (http://fedora.redhat.com/), or Ubuntu (http://www.ubuntu.com/).

Any comments welcome...

[barto11]

I'm still using MS XP and loving it...I hate using vista, and if it aint broke don't fix it is my philosophy...

[gertrude]

I'm not using any of those but know people that do. They swear by Ubuntu. I have been tempted, but haven't had the intestinal fortitude to install it.

[kimfromzim]

Joe Mac's the man to speak to Steve.

[Exzim]

Go UBUNTU,

To get the feel of the linux power and stability, why not download Knoppix. Its a bootable( live cd) CD, and can learn from it wont install onto your hard drive, give it a test drive. There is also a Live cd for Ubuntu


http://www.knoppix.net/

http://www.ubuntu.com/GetUbuntu/download

[yarrumsg]

or wait a little while and go Chorme OS :), well it depends if you just use ur pc as a web browser... but Google are launching a netpad os, where as we mostly use the web instead of a disk OS they might as well re invent the wheel and put low profiles on it...

[Exzim]

or wait a little while and go Chorme OS :), well it depends if you just use ur pc as a web browser... but Google are launching a netpad os, where as we mostly use the web instead of a disk OS they might as well re invent the wheel and put low profiles on it...


Google chrome is linux, and really aimed for the netbook.

[yarrumsg]

me i think it's easy... go visit the dude in zim, he'll get u a cracked copy

and yea it is netbook based but how many people actually use their pc as a pc these days? pop in an external drive to save ur photo's on or they sit on ur picture frame

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/10/intel_google_chrome_os/

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/07/introducing-google-chrome-os.html

personally if u need to find information out watch tv, the internet is only good for porn and making friends... Howdy friends :) (and howdy friends that share their porn finds :)

seriously though, how many people use the web effictivly

[joemac]

I have been using Ubuntu for a few years , but now I have found one I prefer to that. Linux Mint (http://www.linuxmint.com/) It is based on Ubuntu, but seems to be a bit easier to just install without any fuss at all. There is a pretty good "Which linux" aplication here (http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/)

[Steve]

Go UBUNTU,

To get the feel of the linux power and stability, why not download Knoppix. Its a bootable( live cd) CD, and can learn from it wont install onto your hard drive, give it a test drive. There is also a Live cd for Ubuntu


http://www.knoppix.net/

http://www.ubuntu.com/GetUbuntu/download


Here are a few more live CD's

Available LiveCDs include Knoppix (http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html)/Gnoppix (http://www.gnoppix.org/), DSL (http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/), Mepis (http://www.mepis.org/), SuSeLive, Morphix (http://www.morphix.org/), Slax (http://www.slax.org/) and many others. Knoppix is among the first of the LiveCD's and so potentially more fully developed and well known. Some are even fully installable should you deceide you really like that version.

Still would like to know if Linux/Unix are/is user friendly? ? ? Does it include a word processor, spread sheets, publisher etc? ? ?

[joemac]

Either way, Linux is the way to go. It is not flawless, has its idiosyncrasy's and is very defiantly not Windows, but these are mainly good things. Also, there are no/nearly no Linux Viruses (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Viruses), not just because there are only 4 of us in the world using it, but the whole system does no lend itself to the same vulnerability's as windows.