I remember reading about Plan9 sometime back. I wanted to give it a try, but currently I am on a no-OS install 'diet' so I guess it will have to wait 
Were you going to add to that or are you trying to bring just a little more ATOT to a decent forum?
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Were you going to add to that or are you trying to bring just a little more ATOT to a decent forum?
, it had been getting a little dead around here so I decided that matbe if I did something a little off charter I would be able to get the bones to rise. Seriously though I had intended to edit that post, but I was feeling kinda lazy
.--> In order to help your bones rise:
What did the licence have? a Non-Disclosure Agreement?
Actually its the first time I have come across a site that makes you accept a licence, etc. to let you browse thro' the rest of the stuff.
Other sites that have such 'restrictive' policies include:
a. Pr0n sites: "I agree I am 18 or older"...
b. "In order to view this site, you need to have Flash installed."
Re: n0cmonkey's remark about bringing ATOT to a decent forum: I agree, but ...
ROTFLMAO--> In order to help your bones rise:
What did the licence have? a Non-Disclosure Agreement?
Yep me too, I had to look long and hard at those screen shots to make sure that I wasn't at an MS site.
:Q Why civad, you bad, bad, bad ,bad............
Heh
Yup, my thoughts exactly. You know a forum is dying when most threads about MSs latest OS get posting in OT
From what I understand about Plan 9 is that it is not realy designed to run in a stand alone enviroment. It is more complementary design to unix mainframe enviroments a sort of very effective OS to run end-user computers and provide a intuitive user interface.
As far as slack goes and it being a newb-freindly OS, well it's not... It's just that it seems that major distros are leaning more towards creating a installer and interface were you do not have to think, and this becomes very frustrating to people who want to realy know how to use Unix/Linux effectively. The MAJOR defect that all GUI tools have in Linux is that they don't tell you what they are doing, all they need to do is show you the commands that this button and that dialog are going to do to your system and that would make them 300% more effective. Like in redhat when you add a dns server in the network config it should have a option to show you what it is going to do like: "echo $DNSSERVER >> /etc/resolv.conf" or whatever, instead of hiding everything like they do in Windows enviroments.
Anyways the hardest part about installing SLack is to knowing what to do when partitioning your harddrive and later configuring X using xf86config dialog.. all you have to do then is pick "install everything" option and then your set. How hard is that? As long as you ain't trying to protect a windows install on a different harddrive/partition and you either have some reference material at hand or access the internet, it's pretty hard to screw up (just as long you take time to read and don't just click thru everything), and if/when you do, you just run thru the install again (rinse and repeat). It's kinda like a crash course for learning unix.
When I tried out Redhat 8 it was very frustrating, not everything worked right and it was nearly impossible to install some software. It was like running a computer with one arm tied behind my back when I was concentrating on using the Redhat tools and not going back to the command line (which was iritating to do since the closest xterm was 4 level deep in the start menu and not in the task bar were it belonged (until I moved it there)). The impression that it gave me was a crappy, but stable version of windows 98. Maybe that's the best for most windows users trying to use linux, but I know recommending it (or mandrake or suse) to everyone point blank as a "easy" version of Linux without explaining myself is a mistake. The closest you get to that is OS X. And that's BSD.
As far as slack goes and it being a newb-freindly OS, well it's not... It's just that it seems that major distros are leaning more towards creating a installer and interface were you do not have to think, and this becomes very frustrating to people who want to realy know how to use Unix/Linux effectively. The MAJOR defect that all GUI tools have in Linux is that they don't tell you what they are doing, all they need to do is show you the commands that this button and that dialog are going to do to your system and that would make them 300% more effective. Like in redhat when you add a dns server in the network config it should have a option to show you what it is going to do like: "echo $DNSSERVER >> /etc/resolv.conf" or whatever, instead of hiding everything like they do in Windows enviroments.
Anyways the hardest part about installing SLack is to knowing what to do when partitioning your harddrive and later configuring X using xf86config dialog.. all you have to do then is pick "install everything" option and then your set. How hard is that? As long as you ain't trying to protect a windows install on a different harddrive/partition and you either have some reference material at hand or access the internet, it's pretty hard to screw up (just as long you take time to read and don't just click thru everything), and if/when you do, you just run thru the install again (rinse and repeat). It's kinda like a crash course for learning unix.
When I tried out Redhat 8 it was very frustrating, not everything worked right and it was nearly impossible to install some software. It was like running a computer with one arm tied behind my back when I was concentrating on using the Redhat tools and not going back to the command line (which was iritating to do since the closest xterm was 4 level deep in the start menu and not in the task bar were it belonged (until I moved it there)). The impression that it gave me was a crappy, but stable version of windows 98. Maybe that's the best for most windows users trying to use linux, but I know recommending it (or mandrake or suse) to everyone point blank as a "easy" version of Linux without explaining myself is a mistake. The closest you get to that is OS X. And that's BSD.
Originally posted by: wizardLRU
You know a forum is dying when most threads about MSs latest OS get posting in OT.
If it is dying it is because idiots keep posting threads in the wrong forum.
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Bochs IA-32 Emulator 2.0.2 - http://bochs.sourceforge.net/
SkyOS 3.9.5g - http://www.skyos.org/
MenuetOS 0.73 http://www.menuetos.org/
ByzantineOS - http://byzgl.sourceforge.net/
ChaOS - http://web.chaosdev.org/
BRiX - http://brix-os.sourceforge.net/
FreeDOS Beta 8 H1 - http://www.freedos.org/
FreeVMS 0.0.30 - http://freevms.free.fr/indexGB.html
Syllable 0.4.3 - http://syllable.sourceforge.net/
TinyOS 1.0.0 - http://webs.cs.berkeley.edu/tos/
Darwin 6.0.2 for x86 - http://developer.apple.com/darwin/
Cerafix - http://cefarix.sourceforge.net/main.html
GazOS 0.2 - http://gazos.sourceforge.net/
GeekOS - http://geekos.sourceforge.net/
Gemini Nucleus 0.1.2 - http://gemini.sourceforge.net/
ModulOS 0.3 - http://modulos.sourceforge.net/
Odin 1.2 Build 140 - http://odin-os.sourceforge.net/
PetrOS 1.01a - http://www.petros-project.com/
ROME OS 2.0 - http://rome.sourceforge.net/
ZealOS - http://zealos.org/
Möbius - http://www.themoebius.org.uk/
RDOS - http://www.rdos.net/rdos/index.htm
OPPC - http://sourceforge.net/projects/oppcos/
AtheOS 0.3.7 - http://www.atheos.cx/
QNX Realtime Platform - http://get.qnx.com/
Cosmoe 0.5.7 - http://www.cosmoe.com/
ReactOS 0.1.0 - http://www.reactos.com/
Solaris - http://www.sun.com/solaris/
GNU-Darwin Beta 2.5 - http://www.gnu-darwin.org/
I haven't verified any of the above links in a while. I got burned posting a link earlier this week, but I'm too lazy to check these out now. :/
I have left off BeOS MAX, Free/Open/Net BSDs, and all flavors of Linux. Really, really lazy at 2AM.
-SUO
Bochs IA-32 Emulator 2.0.2 - http://bochs.sourceforge.net/
SkyOS 3.9.5g - http://www.skyos.org/
MenuetOS 0.73 http://www.menuetos.org/
ByzantineOS - http://byzgl.sourceforge.net/
ChaOS - http://web.chaosdev.org/
BRiX - http://brix-os.sourceforge.net/
FreeDOS Beta 8 H1 - http://www.freedos.org/
FreeVMS 0.0.30 - http://freevms.free.fr/indexGB.html
Syllable 0.4.3 - http://syllable.sourceforge.net/
TinyOS 1.0.0 - http://webs.cs.berkeley.edu/tos/
Darwin 6.0.2 for x86 - http://developer.apple.com/darwin/
Cerafix - http://cefarix.sourceforge.net/main.html
GazOS 0.2 - http://gazos.sourceforge.net/
GeekOS - http://geekos.sourceforge.net/
Gemini Nucleus 0.1.2 - http://gemini.sourceforge.net/
ModulOS 0.3 - http://modulos.sourceforge.net/
Odin 1.2 Build 140 - http://odin-os.sourceforge.net/
PetrOS 1.01a - http://www.petros-project.com/
ROME OS 2.0 - http://rome.sourceforge.net/
ZealOS - http://zealos.org/
Möbius - http://www.themoebius.org.uk/
RDOS - http://www.rdos.net/rdos/index.htm
OPPC - http://sourceforge.net/projects/oppcos/
AtheOS 0.3.7 - http://www.atheos.cx/
QNX Realtime Platform - http://get.qnx.com/
Cosmoe 0.5.7 - http://www.cosmoe.com/
ReactOS 0.1.0 - http://www.reactos.com/
Solaris - http://www.sun.com/solaris/
GNU-Darwin Beta 2.5 - http://www.gnu-darwin.org/
I haven't verified any of the above links in a while. I got burned posting a link earlier this week, but I'm too lazy to check these out now. :/
I have left off BeOS MAX, Free/Open/Net BSDs, and all flavors of Linux. Really, really lazy at 2AM.
-SUO
Originally posted by: n0cmonkey
Originally posted by: wizardLRU
You know a forum is dying when most threads about MSs latest OS get posting in OT.
If it is dying it is because idiots keep posting threads in the wrong forum.
Wots the difference??? Mine is more polite
. Edit: Hey SUO nice list
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