FREEBSD!!! its awesome-ports and packages are the best thing ever invented. linux tends to copy a lot of what freebsd does.
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FREEBSD!!! its awesome-ports and packages are the best thing ever invented. linux tends to copy a lot of what freebsd does.
what most people said, xp pro w/ debian or slackware
Just my personal opinion. I like the Red Hat/Win2k combo. I really don't think you can go wrong there. Again, that is just my personal opinion. Let us know, when you decide...Quote:
Originally posted here by ac1dsp3ctrum
I was thinking 1 version of Windows and a form of Linux... Just not sure which ones :)
http://www.virtual-linux.org/nuke/index.php
Virtual Linux is basically the Mandrake Linux operating system, modified to run directly from your cd rom drive. It can be run with or without a hard drive. This is great for showing people the power and flexibility of Linux. You can put the cd in your cd rom drive and reboot....and you will soon have a powerful Linux system at your disposal...all without the hassles of loading new software or repartioning your hard drive or any of that technical stuff.
Well, if you don't want to have to partition your hard drive then I reccomend peanut linux, it is small, pretty nice, lots of features and has plenty of add-ons to download. Otherwise, I like mandrake, runs nice, plus it was easy for me to setup my cable internet connection on it.
Showing off the new *bling bling* eh acid? ;) What you could do is install multiple OSs. For example, have Windows running beside Redhat, Slackware and FreeBSD. You've got 80GB so why not experiment a bit with your new box.Quote:
Ok, Im getting a new system real soon (3.2Ghz, 256MB DDR RAM, 128MB Nvidia GeForce3) And I wanted to know everyones opinion on what OS I should run... Size is not a problem (80 Gig Hard Drive) I was thinking 1 version of Windows and a form of Linux... Just not sure which ones
Gentoo...sounds like play dough gone wrong ;). I've never used it but if its package management system is better then Debian's it must be worth a look. The idea of optimising all the binaries is also very appealing. Thanks for the heads up.Quote:
In the Linux world, I'm a huge fan of Gentoo. The great thing about Gentoo is that *everything* is always compiled directly from source, which means that you can pass processor-specific optimizations to everything. Everything down to ls can be performance optimized for your specific machine. If you're really looking to get balls-to-the-wall performance out of your spiffy new machine, you won't do any better than Gentoo. You better know something about Linux before you try it, though, 'cuz it gets pretty deep into the guts of the system.
And its package management system, Portage, is even better than Debian's apt-get. Portage is the future of Linux package management.
It's basically FreeBSD's ports system coupled with the dependency resolution of Debian's apt-get. If you type "emerge gnome" it will download and compile about 50 packages in the right order. You can "emerge rsync" to get a current package list, "emerge --update world" to update all the packages on your system, and "emerge clean world" to remove old packages without touching the updated ones. If you have a major update to glibc, a simple "emerge -e world" will rebuild the whole system around the new glibc. All binary optimized. And all bleeding edge current.Quote:
Gentoo...sounds like play dough gone wrong . I've never used it but if its package management system is better then Debian's it must be worth a look. The idea of optimising all the binaries is also very appealing. Thanks for the heads up.
Tell me that isn't sweet. :D
Yeah I agree with khakisrule peanut linux is a small disto that can run from a FAT32 hard drive, so you don't have to go mad trying to sort out your partitions.