Member Poll: Preferred OS
ynori7 wrote: [quote]stealth- wrote: Hmmm, am I the only one wondering why "BeOS" is even an option? Because it's funny I guess? I dunno, it was Samurai's idea. [/quote]
I figured the list needed something not everyone had heard of, for interest's sake.
FWIW, BeOS itself may have lost development, but there are recreation and continuation projects, including Haiku which is currently maintained.
yeah, I use Haiku on VMWare as well, pretty interesting but not something I would use on a daily basis. The same goes for Syllable, another beautiful OS which I'm afraid doesn't get much attention from the general public.
I still pine for Amiga OS, though. But since I started using Windows 7, my laptop is now machine of awesomeness.
I Voted Debian as it is solid as a rock (as long as you know what packages to actually use ;)) Though I have used many others in the past. SuSE, Red Hat, Fedora, DSL, DVL, CentOS, FreeBSD, NetBSD to name a few. Have not tried Gentoo, however, if I ever find free time I may spark up a Virtual Machine with it on there.
goluhaque wrote: btw. how do the admins compile what's in the thread in the results? Filling the results manually after seeing the posts or any other way? I don't think a keyword system would be present, it would be too inefficient and……..inaccurate.
It's a "fun & recreation" poll, HBH isn't doing anything with the results.
spyware wrote: [quote]goluhaque wrote: btw. how do the admins compile what's in the thread in the results? Filling the results manually after seeing the posts or any other way? I don't think a keyword system would be present, it would be too inefficient and……..inaccurate.
It's a "fun & recreation" poll, HBH isn't doing anything with the results.[/quote] Know that. I was thinking that the admins were compiling results in tabular form, you know.
ynori7 wrote: Ubuntu is there. It's under "Debian". I have only one word that describes this post…WRONG… True Ubuntu is based off Debian…however, as I posted (on page 1 bottom), Ubuntu is NOT a true OS…they butchered Debian to make it "User Friendly" and in all honesty having to su ~ anything root is just plain stupid.
AldarHawk wrote: [quote]ynori7 wrote: Ubuntu is there. It's under "Debian". I have only one word that describes this post…WRONG… True Ubuntu is based off Debian…however, as I posted (on page 1 bottom), Ubuntu is NOT a true OS…they butchered Debian to make it "User Friendly" and in all honesty having to su ~ anything root is just plain stupid.[/quote]
wah wah wah… you already said you're os of choice.
I'm pretty sure that any version of Linux is prefered to be refered to as a distribution.
Atleast for me there's only a limited amount of operating systems, Windows, *NIX, BSD, OS2 and so on. It's really the kernel that makes the operating system, but that might just be my definition.
Well, as for me I've had great experiences with both Windows and Linux, but when it all comes down I'm a sucker for Linux.
root_op wrote: I'm pretty sure that any version of Linux is prefered to be refered to as a distribution.
Well, technically speaking, Linux is just the kernel, while everything else that comes with it is what constitutes to the "Operating System". Although, you're right, It's generally easier to just mash it all up into one O.S called "Linux".
@ Everybody else Every time ubuntu comes up, people go on and start a flame war. Technically speaking, it is an OS. Beyond that, it's just your opinion. Everyone's entitled to their own. Can't we just end it at that and try to avoid a lock? :angry: But, yeah, in all honesty, Mosh's list probably would have fit the bigger majority of users.
I run BackTrack 4 on a flash drive. On my laptop I run Kubuntu. Gentoo is really nice. But ubuntu is the only one that writes my routing table correctly. I used to manually configure the routing table, which worked only half the time. I don't know what Ubuntu does differently, but I gave up when I never found the solution for years.