CaveMan Posted April 19, 2006 Posted April 19, 2006 im using fedora 4 atm, and i was wondering 2 things 1) what *nix do you use (if any) 2) what *nix would u reccomend for me (i dont mind having no GUI aslong as its a renably good interface) Quote
stingwray Posted April 19, 2006 Posted April 19, 2006 if you like Linux then I would recommend you try a BSD as well. FreeBSD is excellent all rounder, and OpenBSD is excellent for routers/gateways/servers. Quote
metatron Posted April 19, 2006 Posted April 19, 2006 Yeah BSD is very good I use it on my main server, OpenBSD all the way! Quote
binauralman Posted April 19, 2006 Posted April 19, 2006 I use gentoo on a 20gb paritition for my laptop. It's a great linux distro and with the release 2006.0 you have an easier install so I suggest you give it a shot, if not I another linux distro that I enjoy is suse for usability and the packages available. Quote
cooper Posted April 19, 2006 Posted April 19, 2006 I have LinuxFromScratch everywhere, but I wouldn't recommend it for anybody who isn't also a developer. Quote
CaveMan Posted April 19, 2006 Author Posted April 19, 2006 thanks people, ill install open BSD on one of my old comps, if i like it ill upgrade it onto my server and thank you all 8D thankyou and im still looking for reply's because im interested to know what *nix you use (and does anyone use unix?) Quote
VaKo Posted April 19, 2006 Posted April 19, 2006 Whats BSD like on laptops? Never used it before, but a friend who used to be a big linux user just switched his machines over to it swearing it was far better. http://www.over-yonder.net/~fullermd/rants.../bsd4linux1.php Plus after reading that ^ my interested was peaked. Quote
jollyrancher82 Posted April 19, 2006 Posted April 19, 2006 I use Linux on my P2 server, but I stick to Windows on anything I use day to day because I know it'll just work when I want it to and hardware is fully supported :) I have used Gentoo on my laptop before and that's the distro I would use most if I had to. Quote
harrison Posted April 20, 2006 Posted April 20, 2006 I use Gentoo with Fluxbox. I also like OSX, that's a very nice nix. Quote
metatron Posted April 20, 2006 Posted April 20, 2006 I run Gentoo on my laptop, Debian on my main box as well as my main Asterisk box and Fedora Core 5 on my work box. Gentoo with Fluxbox Debian main box with KDE Debian Asterisk box with nothing Fedora Core 5 with Gnome Any old equipment I have tends to get Debian with Fluxbox installed on them. Quote
degoba Posted April 20, 2006 Posted April 20, 2006 I use ubuntu on my laptop, and freebsd on one of my desktops. I am going to have to agree with some of the above posters. BSD is definitely worth checking out. Quote
malk Posted April 21, 2006 Posted April 21, 2006 I use the latest debian's Sarge stable release on my main box dual boot with win xp pro sp2 and on my laptop. Quote
ben Posted April 21, 2006 Posted April 21, 2006 ill install open BSD on one of my old comps Good luck with OpenBSD. Personally, I much prefer FreeBSD because of the FreeBSD Handbook. It's very helpful for someone just started out. I tried to use OpenBSD when making the switch from Linux but found the community very demeaning. After that I tried FreeBSD and found the community very helpful. As for OpenBSD being "more secure", it's as secure as the administrator. Someone who knows what they're doing with FreeBSD can make a system just as secure as OpenBSD and someone who doesn't know what they're doing can make OpenBSD just as insecure as Windows. I also like OSX, that's a very nice nix. The more I work with OS X the more I'm convinced it's not a very good nix. No matter what they say it's a proprietary OS. When they start converting config files into binaries and messing with "standard" *NIX file structures they just mess things up. Don't get me wrong, it's a great OS for certain things, but it's move a long way (and is going further) from being *NIX. Ben Quote
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