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srunni Guru
Joined: 26 Dec 2007 Posts: 365
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Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 8:20 pm Post subject: |
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Gentoo/XP on my laptop and headless desktop. I only use Gentoo on the desktop, but on the laptop I occasionally boot into XP to game. _________________
Patrick Ewing wrote: | if it walks like a duck and talks like a duck, it’s a duck, right? So if this duck is not giving you the noise that you want, you’ve got to just punch that duck until it returns what you expect. |
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bdg55 n00b
Joined: 28 May 2003 Posts: 5
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Posted: Tue Nov 11, 2008 8:44 pm Post subject: |
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3 laptops (dell D630s), one "server" all 2.6.27-r2 gentoo /rawr |
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nasaiya Apprentice
Joined: 17 May 2007 Posts: 157
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Posted: Wed Nov 12, 2008 6:09 am Post subject: |
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I tried fedora, redhat, ubuntu, mandrake (a while ago) slackware (ugh) and a few others I can't think of right now but for more than a year its been Gentoo on my desktop, laptop, and piece of crap router/firewall box that performs beautifully despite its pathetic hardware and so far I've converted half my family to gentoo (although I do all the dirty work). I have to admit I have an XP box that gets turned on once every 6 months or so to do something dumb that i can't figure out how to do with linux and also of course if theres a free windows program that does what i need in that case if its not free -- fsck it
Its amazing though.... no matter how much I UTTERLY DESPISE waiting for 100 packages to compile... gentoo and portage are just so great I can't possibly switch to something else. I was just talking to someone about this yesterday and then I happened upon this thread. _________________ If it ain't broke - fix it till it is! |
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keet Guru
Joined: 09 Sep 2008 Posts: 571
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Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 1:24 am Post subject: |
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Gentoo is my main OS. I have three hard drives: The first one has my Gentoo and Vista on it. The second has all my personal data. The third one is for testing various things like FreeBSD and OSX86. I also keep an XP virtual machine that I run in VirtualBox, so I won't need to boot in Vista just to run a Windows program.
I also have a Redhat CD that's autographed by Linus Torvalds... but it's ancient; I think I last installed it on a 386 |
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disi Veteran
Joined: 28 Nov 2003 Posts: 1354 Location: Out There ...
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Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 7:36 am Post subject: |
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At home the desktop has Gentoo with 1 gaming partition with WindowsXP the other machine is Gentoo.
At work WindowsXP/Vista as Desktop
I tried Opensolaris, RedHat, Fedora, CentOS, Suse, gOS, BSDs etc. Most of them come with a bundle of packages or desktop environments, that I just personal do not want/need. Also I am too lazy to uninstall or disable all the stuff (bind, httpd on a desktop, samba, avahi, networkmanager, wlan, rdesktop kind of things) like in Windows.
To answer the question: whereever I install an OS, Gentoo is the first choice. _________________ Gentoo on Uptime Project - Larry is a cow |
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dreadlorde Apprentice
Joined: 16 Dec 2008 Posts: 243 Location: /adm/timezone/US_Michigan
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Posted: Fri Jan 16, 2009 10:06 pm Post subject: |
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Just Gentoo, but I may have to install XP if I want to play games that are better than 2D. _________________ Ludwig von Mises Institute Quote: | I am not to be a shepherd, I am not to be a grave-digger. No longer will I speak to the people; for the last time I have spoken to the dead. |
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Imek Guru
Joined: 20 Jan 2004 Posts: 390 Location: Newcastle, England
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Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2009 12:41 pm Post subject: |
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I've been using XP/Vista as my main on my desktop for a year or so now, mainly because of games. But now that I primarily play games that I know for sure work with Wine/Cedega, I'm considering dual booting and weaning myself gradually off Windows.
For now, though, I still have Gentoo on my laptop. _________________ - I
(very old) "Current" desktop | Adopt an unanswered post today! |
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Uncle Tux n00b
Joined: 27 Jan 2009 Posts: 1 Location: Ohio, United States
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Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 12:21 am Post subject: |
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No, Right now Mac OS X is my main OS on my Desktop ( Naturally, as it is a Mac Pro XD )
My other desktop is running Ubuntu
My laptop is currently running Gentoo, but I'm thinking about moving it to my desktop. |
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Ormaaj Guru
Joined: 28 Jan 2008 Posts: 319
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Posted: Tue Jan 27, 2009 7:30 am Post subject: |
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I use gentoo as my main OS. I also run gentoo on my router/firewall, and built a gentoo computer for my brother. The only time I ever use any other distro is when fixing someones computer of windows, and I won't be around to help maintain the system (though, that didn't stop them from wrecking windows (moreso) in the first place.) |
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merlin2k Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 24 Nov 2006 Posts: 126 Location: Hamburg, Germany
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Posted: Sat Jan 31, 2009 9:29 pm Post subject: |
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Gentoo is my main OS, but i use sometimes WindowsXP in VirtualBox. |
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Tadeas Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 19 Sep 2008 Posts: 113 Location: Prague
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Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2009 8:09 am Post subject: |
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New to Gentoo, so I keep Debian installed on another partition as the "stable" OS I have here. However I haven't booted into it for quite some time... |
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gregool Guru
Joined: 26 Nov 2007 Posts: 336 Location: Lille
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Posted: Thu Feb 05, 2009 10:40 am Post subject: |
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Gentoo is definitly my main OS.
i've got 2 desktop & a laptop running gentoo
why using something else? oh yeah right, that horrible tearing thing with FGLRX ! |
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derkunstler n00b
Joined: 15 Feb 2009 Posts: 2
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Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 12:49 am Post subject: |
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default 0
timeout 3
splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Gentoo Linux (64-bit)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.27-gentoo-r8 root=/dev/sda2 |
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sillen n00b
Joined: 29 Sep 2003 Posts: 4
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Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 1:27 am Post subject: |
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Only have Gentoo on my computer so yes!
Love all the tweaks you can do and of course portage.
ps. at a LAN-party at the moment, and I'm asked to host all the games we play since they run more stable in wine than for the others here using vista/xp |
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Ormaaj Guru
Joined: 28 Jan 2008 Posts: 319
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Posted: Sun Apr 12, 2009 8:27 am Post subject: |
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sillen wrote: | Only have Gentoo on my computer so yes!
Love all the tweaks you can do and of course portage.
ps. at a LAN-party at the moment, and I'm asked to host all the games we play since they run more stable in wine than for the others here using vista/xp | hehe thats aweome! |
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Vithon n00b
Joined: 04 Apr 2009 Posts: 7 Location: Cleveland, OH
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Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 3:09 pm Post subject: |
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It's my second OS.
Arch is my main. _________________ #include <generic-signature.h> |
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d2_racing Bodhisattva
Joined: 25 Apr 2005 Posts: 13047 Location: Ste-Foy,Canada
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Posted: Thu Apr 16, 2009 1:49 am Post subject: |
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Nowadays, my main Os is Gentoo testing and beside it I have a FreeBSD 7.1 Release that need to be understand |
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Shodan n00b
Joined: 18 Apr 2003 Posts: 24 Location: Milan, Italy
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Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 10:22 am Post subject: |
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It's my first OS on the desktop in my office, on my laptop, on my home computer (I also have XP, for the games) and I'm installing all new servers with Gentoo. |
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MaximeG l33t
Joined: 15 Apr 2008 Posts: 722 Location: Belgium
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Posted: Tue May 05, 2009 10:42 am Post subject: |
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Hi,
Gentoo : Main
Vista : Games
Regards,
Maxime _________________ Future is wide open. |
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hampelratte Apprentice
Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 155
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Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 7:30 pm Post subject: |
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Code: | # cat /boot/grub/grub.conf
# Boot automatically after 10 secs.
timeout 10
# By default, boot the first entry.
default 0
# Fallback to the second entry.
fallback 1
title Gentoo 2.6.29
root (hd1,1)
kernel /boot/kernel-2.6.29 root=/dev/hda2 nmi_watchdog=0 vga=0x318 splash=silent,fadein,theme:kdedrops-bs CONSOLE=/dev/tty1
initrd /boot/fbsplash-kdedrops-1024x768
savedefault
title Crappy Windows
rootnoverify (hd1,0)
makeactive
chainloader +1
savedefault
# For installing GRUB into the hard disk
title Install GRUB into the hard disk
root (hd1,1)
setup (hd0)
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Mr. M Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 18 Sep 2004 Posts: 89 Location: USA
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Posted: Sat Jun 06, 2009 8:15 pm Post subject: |
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Yes, Gentoo is my main OS, I use it on
-Desktop at work
-Thinkpad
-Desktop at home
-A digital picture frame made from my old laptop with a 4GB compact flash drive for the root partition
Hopefully I will soon be installing gentoo on a "mini-cluster" consisting of 4 power edge servers with dual quad core Xeon E55XX each, that would be nice |
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jquinte n00b
Joined: 01 May 2007 Posts: 74 Location: Berlin, Germany
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Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 2:22 pm Post subject: |
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Yes!
At home and at work.
Of course I've got a Windows installed, but I never use it.
Cheers! |
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RedSquirrel Guru
Joined: 22 Apr 2008 Posts: 336
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Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 2:42 pm Post subject: |
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sillen wrote: | Only have Gentoo on my computer so yes! |
This. |
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luqas Guru
Joined: 02 Jan 2004 Posts: 588 Location: /US/Texas/Beaumont
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Posted: Wed Jun 17, 2009 3:11 pm Post subject: |
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I finally kicked the gaming bug and Gentoo is my main OS on my home desktop and my work laptop. Using virtualbox wih XP to do my AD tasks etc on the laptop and I love it. |
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vincent- Retired Dev
Joined: 13 Jan 2007 Posts: 415 Location: Valencia (Spain)
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Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 2:13 pm Post subject: |
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Is my main OS in all my computers. My desktop, my laptop and my server.
I also have installed Gentoo in my iBook G4, but I don't use it, and I will install OSX Leopard to use iTunes and manage the iPhone I want to buy |
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