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switching to linux [message #15740] Sat, 03 January 2004 02:51 Go to next message
Ecxeleron is currently offline  Ecxeleron   Australia
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I'm tired of windoze. I'd like to know of any easy-to-get-used-to distros out there. Any tutorials would be appreciated.
I'm quite confident i can quit windoze this time (I've tried before). Laughing

any references, links etc. would be appreciated greatly Smile



Re: switching to linux [message #15848 is a reply to message #15740] Tue, 06 January 2004 16:10 Go to previous messageGo to next message
kc5deb is currently offline  kc5deb   United States
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Well, coming from both a linux and a *BSD background, I prefer BSD on the fact that it's clean, well written, and has both a great history of uptimes and an incredible knack for working even under huge processor utilizations.

I still like linux, but, just not as much. Linux is great to learn on, and makes a great desktop, but, once you play with freebsd, netbsd, openbsd, then you'll realize that most linux distribs have just a huge amount of crap compiled into them that you'll never use, and it just takes up space.
Re: switching to linux [message #15849 is a reply to message #15848] Tue, 06 January 2004 16:16 Go to previous messageGo to next message
Ilia is currently offline  Ilia   Canada
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HAHAHA

Linux couldn't handle many processes in 2.2, but as of 2.4 and 2.6 this is no longer true by a long shot. *BSD threading code is either very poor or non-existant, which becomes very apparent when you use something like MySQL.

File system wise, Linux has a great deal more choice and thinks like ReiserFS beat BSD's FS by a long shot.

I should also mention that a lot more drivers for various hardware are avaliable for Linux then for BSD.


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Re: switching to linux [message #18935 is a reply to message #15849] Fri, 18 June 2004 01:07 Go to previous messageGo to next message
andy_scouser is currently offline  andy_scouser   United Kingdom
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just get yourself a 2nd hand sun and slap solaris on...

Re: switching to linux [message #19079 is a reply to message #15740] Thu, 24 June 2004 00:41 Go to previous message
alansmith is currently offline  alansmith   United Kingdom
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Has anyone ran either Linux or BSB on the new 800 FSB p4's? I had a lot of issues when the Xeons came out and found Sco ran a lot quicker with hyperthreading turned off. Has anyone else experienced this?
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