is gentoo your main OS?

Gargen · n00b Joined: 02 Aug 2005 Posts: 2

i have XP as my main and gentoo as my secondary what about you guys?

/dev/random · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 11:34 pm Post subject:

Windows XP is installed on my computer, but I've been running just Gentoo for months now without booting into Windows.

TheX · Guru Joined: 31 Jul 2004 Posts: 349 Location: .de

WHAT ELSE ???

tutaepaki · Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:09 am Post subject:

My PC is Gentoo dedicated, but my family has a XP Home machine they use. And of course, my firewall is Gentoo too.

Cinder6 · l33t Joined: 05 Aug 2004 Posts: 767 Location: California

I have a notebook and a desktop that only have gentoo on them, and a family system that has XP.
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Varean · Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 12:36 am Post subject:

Gentoo is definetly my main.
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Jake · Veteran Joined: 31 Jul 2003 Posts: 1132

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

Arainach · l33t Joined: 08 Jul 2004 Posts: 609

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)
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Headrush · Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:22 am Post subject:

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.

scoon · Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:32 am Post subject:

Hey There,

At home gentoo is may main and at work fedora is my workstation.

regards,

scoon
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Aynjell · Veteran Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 1117

I used to run windows, but got tired of DRM. I have a deep and abiding hatred for the muck.
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Archangel1 · Veteran Joined: 21 Apr 2004 Posts: 1212 Location: Work

Aynjell · Veteran Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 1117

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.
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shickapooka800 · Guru Joined: 05 Dec 2004 Posts: 304 Location: no

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).

Aynjell · Veteran Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 1117

geniux · Veteran Joined: 19 Feb 2004 Posts: 1400 Location: /home

Gentoo GNU/Linux is my only OS, therefor my main
Is there any others :twisted:

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Aynjell · Veteran Joined: 28 Jun 2004 Posts: 1117

coriolan · Apprentice Joined: 21 Apr 2005 Posts: 273

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?

Arenium · n00b Joined: 17 Feb 2004 Posts: 16

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. :lol:

Q-collective · Advocate Joined: 22 Mar 2004 Posts: 2071

I only have Gentoo... for over a year now.

rdk · Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 8:34 am Post subject:

My machine nad firewall is only Gentoo while my parents machines are win/gentoo dual boot...
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Luc484 · Veteran Joined: 26 Mar 2005 Posts: 1035 Location: Italy

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.

jhow · n00b Joined: 17 Aug 2005 Posts: 19 Location: Sydney

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!!

gerard27 · Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 1:24 pm Post subject:

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.

-Rick- · Posted: Wed Aug 17, 2005 3:14 pm Post subject:

PC: FreeBSD
Laptop:Gentoo
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