Looking for an alternate OS

[Dorkenstein]

Just something I can dual boot and use to learn about other OS's and maybe make my computer better in the process. Any ideas?

 

[Schadenfroh]

linux

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
linux

Thats pretty much it. Try Suse, Red Hot Fedora, and Mandrake. Those are the easiest to get into linux. Later, you can move into Gentoo, Slackware and the various BSD flavors as you get more experienced.

 

[AFB]

http://forums.anandtech.com/ca...8739344&entercat=y

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Bateluer

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
linux

Thats pretty much it. Try Suse, Red Hot Fedora, and Mandrake. Those are the easiest to get into linux. Later, you can move into Gentoo, Slackware and the various BSD flavors as you get more experienced.

Thats not "it." FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin, DragonflyBSD, QNX, BeOS (and it's many clones), various flavors of DOS... The list goes on and on and on.

Sorry linux zealots, you aren't the only alternative out there.

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Bateluer

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
linux

Thats pretty much it. Try Suse, Red Hot Fedora, and Mandrake. Those are the easiest to get into linux. Later, you can move into Gentoo, Slackware and the various BSD flavors as you get more experienced.

Thats not "it." FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin, DragonflyBSD, QNX, BeOS (and it's many clones), various flavors of DOS... The list goes on and on and on.

Sorry linux zealots, you aren't the only alternative out there.

But aren't those Linux?

 

[drag]

I just installed FreeBSD on my laptop a little while ago. Seems nice enough...

But it realy matters what your going to use your computer for. Before FreeBSD in installed Ubanatu Linux on it. I am using Gnome 2.8 on both of those installs and frankly there realy isn't much of a difference at all to my desktop. There isn't much of a difference to me now except when I open up the command line.

I like Linux the most so far, check out http://www.linuxiso.org/, pick one. People like Mandrake it seems like, but they are frenchies Get Suse or Fedora for a first try.


Or better yet. Knoppix. It's a live CD, meaning that the OS runs directly from the cdrom drive without having to install anything on the harddrive, although you can do that if you want to.

 

[Bateluer]

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Bateluer

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
linux

Thats pretty much it. Try Suse, Red Hot Fedora, and Mandrake. Those are the easiest to get into linux. Later, you can move into Gentoo, Slackware and the various BSD flavors as you get more experienced.

Thats not "it." FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin, DragonflyBSD, QNX, BeOS (and it's many clones), various flavors of DOS... The list goes on and on and on.

Sorry linux zealots, you aren't the only alternative out there.

Dude, everything you just named is based off *nix and BSD. I will agree with the fact that they can be radically different than other flavors of *nix and BSD though.

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: amdfanboy

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Bateluer

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
linux

Thats pretty much it. Try Suse, Red Hot Fedora, and Mandrake. Those are the easiest to get into linux. Later, you can move into Gentoo, Slackware and the various BSD flavors as you get more experienced.

Thats not "it." FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin, DragonflyBSD, QNX, BeOS (and it's many clones), various flavors of DOS... The list goes on and on and on.

Sorry linux zealots, you aren't the only alternative out there.

But aren't those Linux?

No. You can see how the various BSDs progressed here.

QNX is a proprietary OS developed by... QNX.

BeOS was a proprietary OS made by Be, and there are a few (I think) open source re-implementations now.

osnews is a good place to learn about a lot of lesser-known OSes. This is a pretty handy page.

 

[Firus]

Croquet anyone?

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: Firus
Croquet anyone?

ahh. errrr.........


did you actually read the introduction of it?

I kept looking, but was unable to find a question on their FAQ page that I was sure I was able to find....

Q: Were do you get your crack, and how can I get some?

because whatever they are using is obviously some very good stuff.

 

[AFB]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: amdfanboy

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Bateluer

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
linux

Thats pretty much it. Try Suse, Red Hot Fedora, and Mandrake. Those are the easiest to get into linux. Later, you can move into Gentoo, Slackware and the various BSD flavors as you get more experienced.

Thats not "it." FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin, DragonflyBSD, QNX, BeOS (and it's many clones), various flavors of DOS... The list goes on and on and on.

Sorry linux zealots, you aren't the only alternative out there.

But aren't those Linux?

No. You can see how the various BSDs progressed here.

QNX is a proprietary OS developed by... QNX.

BeOS was a proprietary OS made by Be, and there are a few (I think) open source re-implementations now.

osnews is a good place to learn about a lot of lesser-known OSes. This is a pretty handy page.

It was sarcasm

 

[mundane]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: amdfanboy

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Bateluer

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
linux

Thats pretty much it. Try Suse, Red Hot Fedora, and Mandrake. Those are the easiest to get into linux. Later, you can move into Gentoo, Slackware and the various BSD flavors as you get more experienced.

Thats not "it." FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin, DragonflyBSD, QNX, BeOS (and it's many clones), various flavors of DOS... The list goes on and on and on.

Sorry linux zealots, you aren't the only alternative out there.

But aren't those Linux?

No. You can see how the various BSDs progressed here.

QNX is a proprietary OS developed by... QNX.

BeOS was a proprietary OS made by Be, and there are a few (I think) open source re-implementations now.

osnews is a good place to learn about a lot of lesser-known OSes. This is a pretty handy page.

Thanks for the info. I had been under the [ignorant] assumption that they were all derivatives of eachother.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: Bateluer

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Bateluer

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
linux

Thats pretty much it. Try Suse, Red Hot Fedora, and Mandrake. Those are the easiest to get into linux. Later, you can move into Gentoo, Slackware and the various BSD flavors as you get more experienced.

Thats not "it." FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin, DragonflyBSD, QNX, BeOS (and it's many clones), various flavors of DOS... The list goes on and on and on.

Sorry linux zealots, you aren't the only alternative out there.

Dude, everything you just named is based off *nix and BSD. I will agree with the fact that they can be radically different than other flavors of *nix and BSD though.

Despite the similar roots of FreeBSD and NetBSD (4.2BSD), they are different OSes. Despite the fact OpenBSD came from NetBSD, they are different OSes.

I haven't looked into where QNX or BeOS came from, but we all know that every OS has a little BSD in them.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Originally posted by: diegoalcatraz

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey

Originally posted by: amdfanboy

Originally posted by: n0cmonkey

Originally posted by: Bateluer

Originally posted by: Schadenfroh
linux

Thats pretty much it. Try Suse, Red Hot Fedora, and Mandrake. Those are the easiest to get into linux. Later, you can move into Gentoo, Slackware and the various BSD flavors as you get more experienced.

Thats not "it." FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, Darwin, DragonflyBSD, QNX, BeOS (and it's many clones), various flavors of DOS... The list goes on and on and on.

Sorry linux zealots, you aren't the only alternative out there.

But aren't those Linux?

No. You can see how the various BSDs progressed here.

QNX is a proprietary OS developed by... QNX.

BeOS was a proprietary OS made by Be, and there are a few (I think) open source re-implementations now.

osnews is a good place to learn about a lot of lesser-known OSes. This is a pretty handy page.

Thanks for the info. I had been under the [ignorant] assumption that they were all derivatives of eachother.

The BSDs are all based on original berkley code, so yeah, they kind of are.