• From: d9
  • Registered: 2011-12-23
  • Posts: 243

Re: Your "other" distro.

My other OS is a distro I made myself a few years ago using the LFS method. It's stable enough to run ok and I've used it as a server for a while but generally due to my own laziness, it's become very buggy and I'm at the point where I couldn't be arsed to fix it any more. I'll be replacing it with #! real soon.

Besides that, I have #! on all my laptops/pc's, including my work pc. I'm proud to say that the last time I installed windows on any of my machines was back in the 2K days. Unfortunately I'm not quite rid of microsoft completely since my wife works for them and she has no choice as to which OS she runs on her lappy.

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  • Registered: 2011-07-27
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Re: Your "other" distro.

Still just the other two I already posted. After chugging through a couple dozen and finding #! I have been able to stop the distrohop. Mainly just posted to babble @ fortyseven for real ...

FS, man you are going to have to get your priorities straight. Simple solution ... divorce, I mean what do ya want dang it !?!??! A loving wife with a good job ... Or a completely window$ free software life !??!?!?!? The choice here is very clear, though she of course gets to keep the computers w M$ software installed, it's only fair. wink


O course, hope folks realize this is an attempt @ humor ... etc. lol

Hmmmm ... perhaps a bit that's OT: ?

Sure somebody already mentioned em, PClinuxOS tried a couple of their releases, seemed well enough and heard many good things about that distro too. But I was busy at the time trying to find the worlds lightest, bestest out of da box gnu/nix distro. Thus using #!. Atm if had to advise a newb friendly migration distro, guess PClinuxOS would be a serious contender. Used to be LM, still have a soft spot for them, but the main = buntu based, for me a no no and 2. They seem to be having growing pains with the gnome3 extravaganza, shrugs.

Not that it matters n guessing the OP and mucho many folks around here know. It's all gnu/nix underneath. Thus can be ( or made to be ) pretty much whatever someone feels like making out of it. No reason #! couldn't be massively changed into something other than it's present gnu/nixy awesomeness.

Last edited by CBizgreat! (2012-01-23 15:13:46)

Some common cbiz abbreviations. This will save me time and yet @ same time tell folks what the babble is supposed to mean.

Vll ! = ( Viva la gnu/Linux !)    Vl#!! = ( Viva la #! !)    Last but not least, UD ... OD ! = ( Use Debian ... or die !) tongue
  • From: d9
  • Registered: 2011-12-23
  • Posts: 243

Re: Your "other" distro.

CBizgreat! wrote:

FS, man you are going to have to get your priorities straight. Simple solution ... divorce, I mean what do ya want dang it !?!??! A loving wife with a good job ... Or a completely window$ free software life !??!?!?!? The choice here is very clear, though she of course gets to keep the computers w M$ software installed, it's only fair. wink


O course, hope folks realize this is an attempt @ humor ... etc. lol

big_smile Lol, I think I'll stick with my wife for now; the pro's far out weigh the cons wink

The funny thing is that she loves linux and knows that it's far superior yet as an employee of MS, she isn't allowed anything but MS on her laptop. In fact, almost anything open source is frowned upon. They have this controlling attitude towards everything.

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  • Registered: 2008-12-04
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Re: Your "other" distro.

^  Sleeping with the enemy. tongue

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  • Registered: 2011-07-27
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Re: Your "other" distro.

Sighs,

Well considering am a bit in my cups. Probably shouldn't post PERIOD, lol. Don't blame you, or her FS ... Just posted that nonsense cuz was a good opp to say summin funny. Not like M$ vs gnu/nix is the end all be all of life. The fate of da world isn't hanging in the balance etc. We all have access to a ton of great FOSS. If people wanna buy windows it's their choice. Can only tell em there's much better for free around when the subject comes up.

Lol ... bet Bill Gates uses a Mac or runs summin gnu/nix. Never said he's stupid, scumbag imo ... YEP. Stupid ... nope. Guess someone doesn't stack up 65 billion by being stupid. Unless they're Paris Hilton. Am sure even he knows M$ software is junk, shrugs. wink

Last edited by CBizgreat! (2012-01-24 06:48:50)

Some common cbiz abbreviations. This will save me time and yet @ same time tell folks what the babble is supposed to mean.

Vll ! = ( Viva la gnu/Linux !)    Vl#!! = ( Viva la #! !)    Last but not least, UD ... OD ! = ( Use Debian ... or die !) tongue
  • From: UK
  • Registered: 2011-10-20
  • Posts: 160

Re: Your "other" distro.

Stuck Joli OS on my netbook. I quite like it, though it's still very much in its infancy.

http://www.jolicloud.com/

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  • From: PH
  • Registered: 2011-10-05
  • Posts: 109

Re: Your "other" distro.

#! all the way here. Always keep coming back.

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  • Registered: 2011-11-22
  • Posts: 1,316

Re: Your "other" distro.

Installed Arch three times in the past week -- just to see if it was as hard as everyone says. It's different, but not too hard. I think they want it to seem more difficult than it is...

Nice thing is that you pick everything, from the ground up. Not sure if I'm ready for slackware, but Arch is my "other" distro for now. I also keep a few Puppies around on USB for emergencies.

  • Registered: 2011-06-26
  • Posts: 292

Re: Your "other" distro.

It wasn't created yet.
There's #! for Debian,
Viperr for Fedora,
Archbang for Arch.

Gentoo plus Openbox ?...

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Re: Your "other" distro.

did someone say amiga?

(as i mentioned in another thread yesterday) there are now three distros built on aros, formerly known of as the amiga research os, now using recursive acronym aros research os.  i think icaros was first.  it's not a 'nix, but it is flossware, and you can install bash in it.  ^_^  sould be comfortable enough.  i've only tried aros straight, and icaros, not the new two.

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  • Registered: 2011-07-16
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Re: Your "other" distro.

Dual-boot #! on both machines with ever changing distro's on the other partitions.  Currently Ubuntu with Gnome 3.2, Puppy and Antix.
Win7 also lives on the main laptop because of software I need for work. I can run it through Wine, but with my distrohopping addiction it's a pain to set up every time.

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  • Registered: 2011-02-22
  • Posts: 62

Re: Your "other" distro.

On my netbook I have crunchbang x86 with xfce, while my desktop runs archlinux x64 with xfce and windows 7 on a separate hard drive for gaming purposes.

The problem with windows 7 is that it breaks a lot, so I might end up trying to make all my steam games work on wine. I know most of them will, but I must figure out what to do with those who won't.

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Re: Your "other" distro.

siduction (LXDE) is my other (tho #! is tracking siduction).
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  • Registered: 2012-02-19
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Re: Your "other" distro.

My netbook is running #! and my laptop is running Ubuntu 11.10, though I am in the distrohopping habit.. a nasty habit at times!

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Re: Your "other" distro.

I found this entire thread entertaining!

And I learned by reading there are a few distro's I've never heard of.  And I read about them for a while.
I didn't see anything which really got me going.

I have only Knoppix on a USB thumb drive right now other than #!.
And I took another USB thumb drive and installed #! on it native.

By god, #! sure boots up in just 2 seconds!   HA! 
So, I'm going to erase my bigger thumb drive with Knoppix and put my #! on that.

I am going to depart from you all and announce that my next fling will more than likely
be with the GNU HURD.

They are supposed to make it an official release with Wheezy.
And I'm going to see just what this thing is all about and how it compares to Linux.
I've already been thru the BSD's in the 90's.

And haven't run MS products since 97.  No desire to go back either.

BTW, somebody was telling me that OS2 was going to try and make a comeback on top of SUSE.
It was on one of our popular Linux VIDEO shows, you may watch from the state of Washington....

Anyway, what's to do....

  • From: Vegas
  • Registered: 2011-08-08
  • Posts: 546

Re: Your "other" distro.

Well when i started with Linux, I actually started out with Fedora, and loved it.
Now I really stick with Debian, and love it.

My next favorite OS i will most likely be installing on a PC I'm about to build is FreeBSD. Not actually Linux kernel, but I like BSD nearly equally.

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