XP Alternative?

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Captain_Crunch

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Is there any good alternative Operating Systems around nowadays that I could use instead of windows XP?

Cheers: :m:
 
yeah! I just switched to Linux Mandrake 10
it' s an awesome OS, a lot better than Mandrake 9.1
here's a screen:
<img src="http://piparmetra.serveris.lv/images/snapshot2.jpg">
 
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should be ok now :) a dot instead of slash
I used Windows XP prior to MDK 10. I had tried MDK 9.1 , but it had too many glitches. This version seems to be a lot better. still some problems, but they're imho minor.
I still keep WinXp as a second OS though, as a gaming station ;)
 
cool OS.
i use XP (arg i hate it)
cause it crashes all the time, some bug in the program that they dont know how to fix, or something....
 
I don't advice RedHat. they have stopped making free distro, now have turned to corporate only distros. their support for RedHat (desktop) will be ended this summer. So it's like a dead os. Mandrake is good for new users. You can even install a windows skin lol
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Leviticus: smthing bad with your install. My XP ran for 1.5 years with just some 3 crashes. one being a really nasty one. apart from that - flawless.
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compatibility with what, Captain? (long time no see, btw)
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http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
you can get the cd image files on linux ftp's all over the net
I got mine from ftp.linux.lv

there isn't the 4th cd though. even more, it seems to be missing in a lot of ftp's, but there's nothing important on it anyways. just some additional development and the like software. all can be gotten on net if needed. you can install MDK10 without the 4th cd. I have the impression, that it is some bonus cd lol . I got it from a dc++ hub.
 
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Redhat are going to start releasing Fedora project as their free OS, it says so on that page Bachus posted. Ill give Mandrake a go, I guess installing RedHat isnt worth while now, as it wont be supported.
I was meaning compatibility issues with commercial software distributions that will work fine on XP. I thought Linux by large couldnt run most of these programs and that could present a problem for me. Is there specific linux software that will substitute?
(yeh, long time no see, good to be back)
 
depends what you want to substitute, though there are substitutes for many of them
but you can also emulate it through WINE (a bit glitchy) or simulate the whole Windows through WMWARE, or you can do like me and run Windows as a second os, meaning you can choose the os to run @ computer startup. as I said I left Windows for games and also a few graphic programs (Photoshop, Flash)
 
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Redhat are going to start releasing Fedora project as their free OS, it says so on that page Bachus posted. Ill give Mandrake a go, I guess installing RedHat isnt worth while now, as it wont be supported.
I was meaning compatibility issues with commercial software distributions that will work fine on XP. I thought Linux by large couldnt run most of these programs and that could present a problem for me. Is there specific linux software that will substitute?
(yeh, long time no see, good to be back)
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1. Support is bs, if you have any questions regarding linux either ask here or on linuxquestions.org
2. To have software working which is designed for windows you need to get wine here there be wine ;) . I have no hands on experience with wine so any questions on that I will have to skip (or start reading the damn documentation). Also for alot of commercial software there is a substitute on linux.
3. Why is my nick in bold? (I'm not fat ;) )
 
Cheers for the help.
Im downloading Redhat as we speak, after thats done Ill get Mandrake (when I can find it).
Why is my nick in bold? (I'm not fat ;) )
Dunno. haha. Ill stop it then. :D
 
support indeed is bollox, but the fact they'll stop providing it means that they won't develop in further. and that isn't bollox at all. I've got nothing against RedHat :) just think it's not a good idea to install it now
 
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Cheers for the help.
Im downloading Redhat as we speak, after thats done Ill get Mandrake (when I can find it).
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Mandrake is also on the page I provided earlier :D
 
you can download mandrake from ftp.linux.lv (in distros > iso)
tell us later how you like RedHat :)
 
Mandrake is also on the page I provided earlier
The links are broken :(

you can download mandrake from ftp.linux.lv (in distros > iso)
tell us later how you like RedHat
Ill try that, thanks. Yeh, I will tell you guys once i have got it installed.

I would like to keep XP as a OS for gaming too, how is this done?
 
take a prog like Partition Magic (can be acquired through dc++) and make one of your ntfs of fat partitions smaller. On the taken out space (now it belongs to no partition) you can install linux, or if you have any partition that you can sacriface altogether for linux, you'll be able to delete it and overwrite with a linux file system from Mandrake installation screen. duno how it is done in Redhat though.
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you can ger RedHat on that ftp also
when you go to Mandrake folder (under pub/distros) the MDK 10 is in the iso folder
 
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They appear not to be broken form here, no ftp access from here though so I can't try to dl. To keep XP on it aswell you have to make it dualbootable, no idea how though since I never done it.
 
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