Which OS are you using?

[Molal]

Fedora 8, at home and at work.

Jonathan

Cool!

Although I love ubuntu, I do enjoy using Fedora! Fedora is a very good OS.

 

[onemessiah]

Cool!

Although I love ubuntu, I do enjoy using Fedora! Fedora is a very good OS.

Yep, me too...Fedora is easily my favorite distro, with Ubuntu a strong second.

Have you checked out Fedora 9 yet?

 

[Molal]

Yep, me too...Fedora is easily my favorite distro, with Ubuntu a strong second.

Have you checked out Fedora 9 yet?

Fedora 9 is a knockout - I have been considering switching to Fedora 9......but I have gotten so used to ubuntu that I am reluctant.

But F9 is very good.

I love the fact that there all these easy to use linux distro's - for FREE!

And throw WINE in there and you get a system that can play most windows games (with some tweaking).

 

[onemessiah]

Yeah, sometimes I kinda feel guilty not having to pay... I love Linux...the only thing holding me back from making it my primary OS is that most of the aftermarket software/programs isn't as good as what you find in Windows, which is important to me since I do a lot of web design.

Fedora 9 looks terrific, and can't wait to get it installed. But as always seems to be the case w/ new Linux distros, have been having a heck of a time getting it installed. Ran it on the live cd, seems to be a bit buggy still, but that's to be expected from a brand new OS. Don't blame ya for being reluctant to make the switch- I'd probably wait a month or so for some more updates before I seriously considered it.

 

[Molal]

That's true onemessiah - I think I will wait for a month or two. It is also true about the software/programs thing - and the fact that everyone makes programs for windows - but not for linux.

But, I do use Ubuntu exclusively at home; although my gaming machine does have WinXP. Gaming under linux is not that great - but do-able.

 

[Molal]

Which reminds me, I still haven't upgraded to vista on my gaming machine. Other than directx 10, I see no point.

Anyone have any opinions on Vista?

 

[onemessiah]

As long as you have decent hardware (at least a Core 2 Duo and 2GB memory minimum), I think Vista is a nice step up from XP.

 

[TheManeki]

Although I've heard Vista doesn't always play nicely with older games. My fave, Neverwinter Nights, has better support under Linux than under Vista. Still, my wife uses Vista home and says it's fine for web browsing and productivity work.

 

[Molal]

Thanks guys!

Well, I just downloaded the fedora live CD to try out. I'll let you know how it goes tomorrow!

 

[TheReasoner]

Windows and Mac OS X (10.5)
Though soon just Mac OS X.
I love it. Easy to use, fully fledged Unix, beautiful and fast. Tons of great apps.

 

[SumTinWong]

Leopard OS and have a partition of XP Home Edition although I cannot tell you the last time I used it.

 

[SpiritualAntiseptic]

One thing I find interesting is how Linux users seem to far outnumber Mac users.

I think this is where Apple makes a huge mistake..... Realistically, they will never supplant Microsoft. Probably will never even come close to it.
Then, look at Linux. I think that the only things holding Linux back from knocking Apple off as Number 2 is the lack of enough quality third party software, and maybe a more modern, attractive design.
Linux is a much bigger threat to Apple than Microsoft is (given that M$ has a stranglehold on #1, everyone else is fighting for runner up).

Linux is in no way a threat to Apple. The reason there is no third party software for Linux is because any companies based on profit are destroyed by piracy.

Linux is a hobby, nothing more.

 

[SpiritualAntiseptic]

I run and have run a variety of operating systems over the years. I was one of the rare few that ran Linux back in the 1990s.

I like BSD over Linux... but if i had to go with Linux, I found Gentoo to be the most useful. That is supposing that I'm using a distro- in the past I used to set up my computers without a distribution.

Today I use Vista. But I'm not longer really interested in screwing around with computers.

I used to be into Macs as well. I enjoyed hacking every part of their systems, including firmware, in fact. But I despise Apple as a company and don't what they offer consumers.

 

[TheReasoner]

Linux is in no way a threat to Apple. The reason there is no third party software for Linux is because any companies based on profit are destroyed by piracy.

Linux is a hobby, nothing more.

Not really. There are some really good server side solutions based on Linux. Not to mention more proprietary hardware that uses a boiled down Linux version to do some small task.

Though for end users, yes. So far it is primarily a hobby OS.
I hope that changes though. I would love to see more competition and more choices in the IT world. The big corporations have too much might.

 

[SpiritualAntiseptic]

Not really. There are some really good server side solutions based on Linux. Not to mention more proprietary hardware that uses a boiled down Linux version to do some small task.

Though for end users, yes. So far it is primarily a hobby OS.
I hope that changes though. I would love to see more competition and more choices in the IT world. The big corporations have too much might.

Servers are another matter entirely, of course. Linux is great in that regard- but then, any Unix system is.

 

[TheReasoner]

Servers are another matter entirely, of course. Linux is great in that regard- but then, any Unix system is.

Actually, not really. Mac OS X is not a good server OS. But it's still Unix. It is, however, a great desktop OS.

 

[SpiritualAntiseptic]

Actually, not really. Mac OS X is not a good server OS. But it's still Unix. It is, however, a great desktop OS.

I'm not really sure on what basis you are saying it is bad for serving.

 

[sealacamp]

I have xp home on one computer, a mistake for sure, and xp pro on the other one.

Sealacamp

 

[TheReasoner]

I'm not really sure on what basis you are saying it is bad for serving.

I've tried it. It (At least 10.5) is not a good server OS. It is prone to crashes, for one. The GUI is not as well developed as Microsoft's UI, as far as Open Directory, it lacks a lot of what I really like about Active Directory. As a web-server it is too slow (which is quite surprising, really)...

 

[pac422man]

I am using OS X right now, but I have computers in my house with Windows XP, Ubuntu, and Windows 95, all that I use rarely.