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Gargen n00b
Joined: 02 Aug 2005 Posts: 2
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:25 pm Post subject: is gentoo your main OS? |
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i have XP as my main and gentoo as my secondary what about you guys? |
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/dev/random l33t
Joined: 26 Nov 2004 Posts: 704 Location: Austin, Texas, USA
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:34 pm Post subject: |
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Windows XP is installed on my computer, but I've been running just Gentoo for months now without booting into Windows. |
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TheX Guru
Joined: 31 Jul 2004 Posts: 349 Location: .de
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Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:35 pm Post subject: |
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WHAT ELSE ??? |
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tutaepaki Apprentice
Joined: 11 Nov 2003 Posts: 279 Location: New Zealand
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:09 am Post subject: |
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My PC is Gentoo dedicated, but my family has a XP Home machine they use. And of course, my firewall is Gentoo too. |
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Cinder6 l33t
Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Posts: 767 Location: California
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:32 am Post subject: |
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I have a notebook and a desktop that only have gentoo on them, and a family system that has XP. _________________ Knowledge is power.
Power corrupts.
Study hard.
Be evil.
Ugly Overload |
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Varean Guru
Joined: 03 Jul 2005 Posts: 436 Location: California, USA
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:36 am Post subject: |
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Gentoo is definetly my main. _________________ Registered Linux User #387568
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Jake Veteran
Joined: 31 Jul 2003 Posts: 1132
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:02 am Post subject: |
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I like variety: Gentoo for my amd64 desktop (mostly because of portage), DragonFly BSD for my Dual PII fileserver (I was using FreeBSD 4, to which DragonFly is supposed to be the "logical" successor) , OpenBSD for my router (PF and "secure by default" design), and my Compaq P4 laptop is my test machine, so it's currently running FreeBSD (wanted to see how 5.x was coming along), Solaris (newly open-source commercial UNIX), and OSX (yes, I'm serious).
EDIT: my laptop now runs only Nexenta, however I want to run SchilliX on my fileserver to use ZFS, in which case I'd probably switch my laptop to one of the BSDs
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Arainach l33t
Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 609
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:22 am Post subject: |
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Gentoo for everything. I have a Windows XP Partition for the rare occasions when games don't work in Linux (BF2 while I tried it; Steam right now until I renew my Cedega subscription to get a copy of Cedega 4.4.1) _________________ Gentoo: Stage3 w/ NPTL & udev, gcc 3.4.4 full rebuild
Kernel: 2.6.15-gentoo-r1 w/ 1G-Lowmem Patch
System: Athlon XP 2.2Ghz/1GB Corsair Value/160GB, 250GB WD IDE/128MB GeForce 6800/Sony 17" Trinitron G200 @ 1280x1024x75Hz |
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Headrush Watchman
Joined: 06 Nov 2003 Posts: 5597 Location: Bizarro World
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:22 am Post subject: |
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The only true OS I have is Gentoo.
I run MS-DOS, Win98, Win2K, WinXP, Win Server 2003, OS X (intel build) all in VMware though. |
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scoon l33t
Joined: 23 Aug 2003 Posts: 747 Location: Philadelphia, PA
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:32 am Post subject: |
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Hey There,
At home gentoo is may main and at work fedora is my workstation.
regards,
scoon _________________ Hope this helps........ |
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Aynjell Veteran
Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 1117
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:54 am Post subject: |
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I used to run windows, but got tired of DRM. I have a deep and abiding hatred for the muck. _________________ CPU: 3800+ X2 (2.5Ghz)
GPU: eVGA 7600GT (640/1700)
MOBO: DFI SLI-DR (Surprisingly good!)
RAM: 2 x OCZ Gold 1024 DDR500 3-4-3-7 (2048)
HDD: Western Digital Raptor |
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Archangel1 Veteran
Joined: 21 Apr 2004 Posts: 1212 Location: Work
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 2:52 am Post subject: |
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Aynjell wrote: | I used to run windows, but got tired of DRM. I have a deep and abiding hatred for the muck. |
And fair enough too!
The constant stream of EULA's, CD keys and requests for more money got too much for me. After a while it felt like the computer was just letting me use it for a while - which isn't a nice feeling after shelling out all the money on the damn thing!
Seeing XP Service Pack 2 complaining about my computer being 'unsafe' was really the last straw; if I pay hundreds of dollars for a piece of software it should f##king work, not tell me I need to pay their associates more money to make it work.
So I left. Linux works better at most things anyway _________________ What are you, stupid? |
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Aynjell Veteran
Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 1117
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 3:40 am Post subject: |
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After getting things setup properly, it really does. I've found that the following setup hits the spot:
FS: Reiser4 (root), reiser3 (boot), xfs (storage)
Device Interfaces: Udev (Hald and Ivman)
Kernel: Morph Sources 2.6.12 (morph 7)
Desktop: XFCE4 + Gnome Services (Gconf makes life 10 times easier)
Media Player: Rhythmbox (How I found out about gconf's abilities)
Then I can game all day long on teh system in my signature, and I never have any stress. I'm currently looking into setting up X right on boot, but that has proven to be troublesome... Right now GDM isn't accepting xinit stuff (xmodmaps required for my mouse). SO my desktop isn't perfect yet, still don't have a file manager, and seeing as how I dislike rox, I won't until thunar. _________________ CPU: 3800+ X2 (2.5Ghz)
GPU: eVGA 7600GT (640/1700)
MOBO: DFI SLI-DR (Surprisingly good!)
RAM: 2 x OCZ Gold 1024 DDR500 3-4-3-7 (2048)
HDD: Western Digital Raptor |
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shickapooka800 Guru
Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Posts: 304 Location: no
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 3:56 am Post subject: |
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i can't afford Windows, so its gentoo for me. I got a student copy a long time ago for $10, but that has gone to my brother. I have a Mac laying around, and it has osx on it(albeit 10.1.4) but as soon as thats put back together, its getting gentoo aswell. since the only things i use a computer for are briowsing, chatting, music and learning programming skills, windows got innadequate fairly quickly, and since i am too lazy and frugal to update to panther/jaguear/large cat, none of the current osx stuff works for me, so whats the point.
i used reason (by propeller heads) for a long time (the reason i have a mac), but it is too much of a hassle now to dual boot. any one want to buy it? its reason 2.0 (i can give you the 2.5 upgrade). |
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Aynjell Veteran
Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 1117
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 4:00 am Post subject: |
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shickapooka800 wrote: | panther/jaguear/large cat |
The naming convention got old quick, didn't it? _________________ CPU: 3800+ X2 (2.5Ghz)
GPU: eVGA 7600GT (640/1700)
MOBO: DFI SLI-DR (Surprisingly good!)
RAM: 2 x OCZ Gold 1024 DDR500 3-4-3-7 (2048)
HDD: Western Digital Raptor |
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geniux Veteran
Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 1400 Location: /home
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 4:22 am Post subject: |
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Gentoo GNU/Linux is my only OS, therefor my main
Is there any others _________________ AMD Athlon64 X2 4200+ AM2
MSI K9N SLI Platinum, Enermax Liberty 500W
1GB RAM Crucial DDR2 667MHz, MSI nVidia 7600GS 256MB
400GB + 250GB Samsung SATAII HDD
Gentoo - BeyondSources 2.6.19-20 |
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Aynjell Veteran
Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 1117
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 4:30 am Post subject: |
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geniux wrote: | Gentoo GNU/Linux is my only OS, therefor my main
Is there any others |
Well, there are others, but none of them have portage... so they aren't usable. And aren't operating systems supposed to increase productivity?
*runs from the fedora/suse/debian/ubuntu/arch users* _________________ CPU: 3800+ X2 (2.5Ghz)
GPU: eVGA 7600GT (640/1700)
MOBO: DFI SLI-DR (Surprisingly good!)
RAM: 2 x OCZ Gold 1024 DDR500 3-4-3-7 (2048)
HDD: Western Digital Raptor |
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coriolan Apprentice
Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Posts: 273
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 5:50 am Post subject: |
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I don't know what to say. I have an AMD64 with Gentoo that does the main computational tasks in my home, however I do most surfing, chatting and emailing on my Mac with OS X Tiger, but it does have portage, so does that count? |
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Arenium n00b
Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Posts: 16
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 7:12 am Post subject: |
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In terms of my master boot record and devices, Windows would be my primary -- only because installed on a 100GB /dev/hda and Gentoo is on a 80GB /dev/hdb.
I haven't booted into Windows for ages, and even then it was likely me fatfingering during the GRUB boot-up process. |
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Q-collective Advocate
Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 2076
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 7:57 am Post subject: |
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I only have Gentoo... for over a year now. |
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rdk n00b
Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Posts: 27 Location: Zadar, Croatia
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:34 am Post subject: |
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My machine nad firewall is only Gentoo while my parents machines are win/gentoo dual boot... _________________
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/* Take care. */ |
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Luc484 Veteran
Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 1035 Location: Italy
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 10:00 am Post subject: |
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My only desktop system is Gentoo. I have it installed on the laptop too, and nothing else. My sister has windows xp installed, but I told her as soon as she gets connected to the house ethernet LAN, she will have linux on her desktop (I don't know which one, maybe gentoo). My father unfortunately cannot run away from windows xp, on his desktop and on his laptop, and maybe he wouldn't want to do it too. Anyway, the house LAN has an adsl connection, and the modem is on my gentoo machine of course, with 4 pcs connected to it, and works very good with all this traffic. |
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jhow n00b
Joined: 17 Aug 2005 Posts: 19 Location: Sydney
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:48 pm Post subject: |
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Currently not my main os (Fedora Core 4 is). But I'm about to ditch it for Gentoo.
There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth setting it up origonally but now it's there I love it. Well worth the effort!
Ditched windows 10 months ago and have never looked back!! |
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gerard27 Advocate
Joined: 04 Jan 2004 Posts: 2377 Location: Netherlands
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Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:24 pm Post subject: |
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I have Gentoo and Windows 98 on a dual boot desktop.
I use Windows once a year for my tax returns.If the tax people
would install a *nix program that could run on Gentoo I would
get rid of Windows. |
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-Rick- Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 29 Aug 2004 Posts: 77 Location: Holland
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