Operating System Geekery

[Yuri_Rage]

Installed Windows 7 RC under VirtualBox this week. I think SWMBO's slow-as-**** laptop will be running it as the native OS soon.

 

[Yuri_Rage]

I can never leave well enough alone. I'm currently running Snow Leopard on a quad core Hackintosh. I have a few VMs on a VirtualBox install, but I can still boot into a Linux or Windows 7 environment if the need arises. Here's a screen shot showing OS X, Linux Mint, and Debian running concurrently (the terminal showing Debian/ARM info is actually a remote login to an NSLU2 that I hope to integrate into the brew hut).

Yup, I'm a geek.

 

[Chudz]

Yah, Mint is so close to Ubuntu. I think it's a great OS for people wanting to try Linux for the first time, because it loads the proprietary stuff. However, Ubuntu does have a lot more documentation and postings available.

Hat's off to you on the Linux from scratch install. I started a distro that was built like that but decided I'd like to retain my sanity, heh.

 

[mullenite]

Want to be a real nerd? Find BeOS. That was the worst operating system I've ever used.

 

[z987k]

I've got an old laptop(2.?ghz celeron mobile with 256 ram and shared video) that I actually use running whatever the 2nd to last ubuntu LTS is installed via a terminal running only what is necessary with icewm for window management. 36mb ram fully up and running. I do use chrome to browse the internet with it, as I find it to be the lightest full feature browser. Compared to the os, chrome is a pig. If I get a lot of tabs open and it starts to swap out, it's slow as ****, but for light duty, it's great.

 

[Yuri_Rage]

Mint IS Ubuntu...with some other stuff. When trying to solve problems in Mint, just go to the Ubuntu documentation and forums. The same fixes will likely work.

I'm not going to mess with BeOS. Great idea...failed.

 

[mmb]

Mint IS Ubuntu...with some other stuff. When trying to solve problems in Mint, just go to the Ubuntu documentation and forums. The same fixes will likely work.

I'm not going to mess with BeOS. Great idea...failed.

The BeBox was an impressive piece of hardware for the time. Same with Amiga way back when.

 

[TxBrew]

I've been running SUSE for several years now and really like it. One of my favorite *nix OS's.

 

[mullenite]

Back when I had time to mess around with *nix SUSE was my favorite distro.

 

[arch1tect]

I'm going to be building another Gentoo box on my spare Power Mac. Instead of XFS I may go with butter fs.

 

[Yuri_Rage]

I've never used SUSE at all. I'm downloading the image right now so I can install a VM and check it out.

 

[z987k]

I have found I've gotten used to where everything is and how it's done on debian based distros, I have a hard time going over to others. Even things like starting services is different anymore. But I'm probably going to stick with my complacency as it works for now.

I always did like gentoo as well.

 

[caphector]

A Gentoo-like distro that shows promise is Arch. I almost switched my server to Arch from Gentoo, but realized it didn't have enough stuff in the package manager. I prefer to use a package manager since I run a free webhost in my spare time, so anything I can do to reduce my admin time is a major plus.

 

[jkarp]

Being an RHCE and managing Red Hat servers for over a decade, I stick with "the conservative" distro. Played with xubuntu for a couple months but went back to Fedora on my workstations.

 

[mmb]

If RedHat is the "conservative" distro, does that make Debian the "stick in the mud" distro?