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| AlexPanzer Deactivated User 1593 Posts 6/03 |  Posted - Apr 3 2008 : 8:55PMWhat is the best free operating system for general computing? [Link] |
| nietzsche Deactivated User 5470 Posts 8/03 | Posted - Apr 4 2008 : 2:38AM [Link] |
| nietzsche Deactivated User 5470 Posts 8/03 | Posted - Apr 4 2008 : 2:39AM [Link] |
Jacco  All-Star Member "liable to deprave and corrupt" 2673 Posts 5/04 | Posted - Apr 4 2008 : 4:16AM I am not a gamer, but I thought most gamers use consoles these days anyway. Jacco [Link] |
| nietzsche Deactivated User 5470 Posts 8/03 | Posted - Apr 4 2008 : 10:28AM [Link] |
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| RandomPrecision Senior Member Enjoy! 8175 Posts 3/06 | Posted - Apr 4 2008 : 11:55AM [Link] |
| Jacco All-Star Member "liable to deprave and corrupt" 2673 Posts 5/04 | Posted - Apr 4 2008 : 3:02PM In the office we have only one or two Windows machines left, the rest is Macs (can't beat those for video and graphics) and Linux. Jacco [Link] |
| Dave_K99 Member 497 Posts 12/07 | Posted - Apr 4 2008 : 4:37PM Just today I had to fill in a couple of application forms in MS Word's document format. Neither would open 100% correctly in OpenOffice 2.4. With one the problems were fairly subtle, but the other was more complex and ended up a total mess. Even if I reformatted the document in OO, there's no guarantee that it'd still be OK when exported and opened in an actual version of Word. I can't really demand that my prospective employers provide the documents in another format, and sending them a form with messed up formatting isn't likely to impress them... Then there are the images in Photoshop's native format that I get from other digital photography enthusiasts. I haven't even looked to see if they'll open in GIMP, I doubt very much that things like layers would be preserved. I like Linux, but not enough to faff around trying to get all my Windows software running on it. In my experience that often doesn't work too brilliantly, especially when I need the software to be up to date. It's a shame, if nothing else I'd like to save a bit of money, but like a lot of other people I'm locked in to Windows thanks to the popularity of certain commercial apps. [Link] |
| BadKarma Member 110 Posts 11/00 | Posted - Apr 5 2008 : 3:27AM I run Linux AND Window Apps by using either Xen or VMWare on Linux. In my case I use CentOS (a RedHat derivative) Both Xen and VMWare work great for most if not all Windoz applications that I use. Note that I try to avoid any Micro$oft product like the plague. In my experience there is always a capable free equivalent to any Micro$oft product I can think of. Xen is free, as in beer, and VMWare is a commercial (i.e., costs money) product. Now, one small point, Linux gets all the press, BUT FreeBSD is a rock-solid free OS. A lot of ISPs run their servers on BSD. I have a FreeBSD server running Apache. It just works. Enjoy life, use a Macintosh. [Link] |
| RandomPrecision Senior Member Enjoy! 8175 Posts 3/06 | Posted - Apr 5 2008 : 5:50PM [Link] |
| nietzsche Deactivated User 5470 Posts 8/03 | Posted - Apr 5 2008 : 6:43PM [Link] |
| BadKarma Member 110 Posts 11/00 | Posted - Apr 5 2008 : 9:11PM And in Microsoft's case they have access to both the source code for the OS, AND the source code for their applications (e.g., MS Office). BTW, I'm proud to be a 'geek'. I can spend my free time being a 'porn connoisseur' and not trying to make my computer work ;-) [Link] |
| RandomPrecision Senior Member Enjoy! 8175 Posts 3/06 | Posted - Apr 7 2008 : 2:05AM But I know I'm not smart enough to be a geek so I gravitate towards software that does almost all the technical stuff for me.[Link] |
| jrv Senior Member 1266 Posts 2/03 | Posted - Apr 14 2008 : 3:39PM "general computing" is too broad a term. Linux has more apps; FreeBSD is more stable, OpenBSD is more secure. There isn't a simple answer: Yahoo! used to (and may still) use Linux for development but FreeBSD on deployed servers (i.e. www.yahoo.com). I use a Mac exclusively now, which is an Apple-proprietary GUI atop a unix/FreeBSD kernel grafted-onto/atop a Mach core. The only Windows program I still use regularly (within VMware/Fusion) is Quicken, and there is an OSX version now. [Link] |
| RandomPrecision Senior Member Enjoy! 8175 Posts 3/06 | Posted - Apr 30 2008 : 2:10PM I did really like the fact that you can run it from a CD (although it's a little slllloooow). It actually worked a lot better out of the box than I expected it to. The thing that bothered me most was not having all the applications that I've become accustomed to using over the years. I was just lost without Irfanview. I spend a lot of time on pictures. While Linux might have a photo viewer available that's comparable to Irfanview, I've found that even Windows-based image viewers that purport to be comparable to Irfanview might do most of the same things but they still aren't Irfanview. It was just fine for web browsing (Thanks to the inclusion of Firefox). I will probably try the new version of Ubuntu when I get around to it but unless the improvements are absolutely stellar, I think they still have a ways to go. Having said that, I think everyone would benefit from downloading a copy of Ubuntu to keep as a backup in case Windows ever completely fails them and they just need a temporary OS until they can figure things out. It's free so why not? Edited by - randomprecision on 4/30/2008 2:10:36 PM [Link] |
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| kukm4 Member so-cal 212 Posts 9/04 | Posted - Apr 30 2008 : 7:10PM http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iILE007CMw [Link] |
| Harri Patel Senior Member #SDNY he's all yours. -- Michael Steele 5110 Posts 3/03 | Posted - May 3 2008 : 4:49PM [Link] |
| jonfr Member 12 Posts 2/07 | Posted - May 5 2008 : 9:57PM [Link] |
| nietzsche Deactivated User 5470 Posts 8/03 | Posted - May 6 2008 : 7:34PM [Link] |
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