pole for linux

[dexter]

hello, just to make this thread operational and diverting some trafic to it, i decided to make a pole.

what operating system and distrobution of linux does everyone use???

[Porfiry]

gee...i happen to use 4 of those :)
mac,windows,freebsd and mandrake

[dexter]

well, i use most of them too.... i use all windows distro's, mandrake, i have bsd, dont accually use it too much, but i ahve it on a hardrive, i mainly use red hat 7.0 and whenever i go to circut city i use macantosh, i am anting to get a mac. i really like them, not as much as linux, but the sure as hell beat winblows

-dexter

[Porfiry]

Hey, great to hear you're interested in the Mac. Now's a great time to get into the platform, with the imminent release of OS X. I imagine it's UNIX foundation should appeal to you. People are already running X Windows alongside Aqua (which, btw, is absolutely a pleasure to use). It's only a matter of time untill someone gets KDE or Gnome running on OS X, but who wants those when they've got Aqua?? :)

[Rop]

Well as linux goes i have been using SuSE for almost 2 years. Tried most distro's in the market till i finally settled for SuSE.

I also use FreeBSD and Win2k.

On the aqua subject i just hope they do a port to x86 so i might try it. But till then and knowing how apple thinks they wont..

just my thoughts..


Rop

[Porfiry]

Well, with OS X, Apple finally has a viable exit strategy off the powerpc platform (that is, through OS X's Cocoa API which is based on the NextStep API which was, of course, a cross-platform API). Given how poor the PowerPC progress has been over the last 3 years, I'd say it's reasonably likely that we'll see an x86 version of OS X at some point. The PowerPC makers simply can't throw the kind of money at R&D that Intel and AMD are.

[dexter]

i really wanna try that out, i have only heard good things bout it. though i dont think i can ever be ripped away from linux, unless a new super OS was writen, that gave me control over everyone and allowed tme to pronounce myself god of the computing world. but till then i am sticking with linux, and i am buying a new computer. its gonna be one fast son of a bitch,

256 megs of ram, AMD athalon 1ghz procesor, the new gigabyte 7xd, 30 gig HD its gopnna be sweet, and it will be better than my computer now ( celeron procesor, 64 megs of ram 30 gig. e-machines mother board)
if anyone wants to contribute money to me getting a mac, i would more than happy to accept it :)


-dexter

[AUSSIEABORIGINAL]

Well,
I voted for red hat linux. Why....I Dunno. Well, okokokokkok, so it had the "hat", which I like, it was red, my favorite color.....hmmm??? And besides, I always thought that linus was pretty cool!!!!!!