Roll Call: Operating System

[Russell John]

Let us know which operating system you are running. If possible, tell us why you prefer to use it.

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[Dominik Michniewski]

It's not preference. It's no time to tuning Linux

Best regards
DM

[little joey]

Switched from Free Pascal under Windows to gcc under Linux since the beginning of this year, and I never regretted it for one second.
Dominik: I had the same feeling about Linux, until I discovered Knoppix, a Linux version that is contained on and boots from CD. Just run it from any PC, and everything works instantly without interfering with your hard disk (unless you explicitly permit it to do so, of course). A real recommendation. You can download it free from http://www.knoppix.org

[Dominik Michniewski]

Thanks little joey for pointing me to this distribution Only one thing : I must have some free time to download it and test

Best regards
DM

BTW. On my hard disk I had installed RedHat 9, but I havn't time to work with it

[Piotrek Mazur]

Unfortunately, still on Windows. I had many problems with my old sound card on RedHat 9, I googled for solution but nothing works. If I won't be so lazy next month may be I will buy sth new an move to Linux

[playerX]

I use linux because i like the GNU ideology and because the community is great. It offers a great and stable development platform..
I've used many distributions so far like Mandrake, Redhat, Fedora, Slackware and Debian
My favorite distribution is slackware because its very solid. However, slackware requires dedication and time. I don't have those so I use debian which is generaly easy to mantain after configuring.

So, my recommendation is DO NOT start with mandrake, its too "windows". U'll get lost in the window manager and you will never find out how the system truly works. Using the console is good, you can learn a lot from it. Use Fedora / Red Hat to start , its easy to install (thats the hardest bit for newbies) and from there you can learn the basics. If you have time and patience and want a solid system use Slack. If you are lazy like me and dont like dependencies and stuff like that but still want a good operating system, use debian.

(There might be better choices, I'm just talking about the ones i know)

Linux: You want it.

[Andrew Neitsch]

Why no OpenBSD? Jerk.

[playerX]

that's the others..=)
actually, i'd like openbsd and netbsd to be there, i also like them, despite never using them extensively...

[playerX]

but probabbly he doesnt know the operating system, so, why not explaining what the advantages are? this way you can show why openbsd is good, and it is indeed.

[Mohammad Mahmudur Rahman]

Windows is being used alongwith Linux as it's pirated copy is available in Bangladesh !