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carbon · Post by **carbon** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 2:07 pm

out of curiosity, i wanna know the machine you use the most uses what and how many OS(es)

hensan · Post by **hensan** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 2:17 pm

I dual boot Gentoo Linux and Windows 98.

I use Windows 98 for gaming and internet banking. For everything else I use Linux.

Verteron · Post by **Verteron** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 2:22 pm

I have Windows XP on a partition but I haven't booted it in months and don't even have it on my Grub menu any more. So I've voted for Gentoo only.

Celtis · Post by **Celtis** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 2:40 pm

What about if you have multiple Linux distro's? I feel so left out

If you want to know why it's because I run Gentoo personally and SuSE for testing stuff out for the users at work, don't worry I'm working on them moing to Gentoo!

carbon · Post by **carbon** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 2:51 pm

if you have more than 1 linux, thats why i put 3 OS there.

carbon · Post by **carbon** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 2:52 pm

oh nevermind, i understand, sorry for making choices lacking coverage

FoX · Post by **FoX** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 3:48 pm

Well I dual boot... but if I was really listening to me, my HD would have at least 5 OS

( with a 40 gig, it's hade to fit them all in here and be able to install pachages )

I would like to have something like Linux x 2 ( Gentoo + a generic distro ), BSD, Solaris ( or BeOS ) and a Micro$oft product ( I think it would be win2k ).
Myabe I sould buy more boxes and install all of them on separate machines.

Just need to find money now ...

-FoX

Lovechild · Post by **Lovechild** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 4:51 pm

Gentoo and only gentoo - on my 18th birthday I switched completely to Linux and that's a good 4 years ago now..

glamdringlfo · Post by **glamdringlfo** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 5:29 pm

I have XP and Gentoo dual-booted....I did use XP all the time for the audio apps I bought for my electronic music project, but I'm slowly finding replacements in Gentoo and spending more and more time there.

w00t!
glamdringlfo

ruronikenshin83 · Post by **ruronikenshin83** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 5:31 pm

I'm on a linux only* system.

* - I do however have VMWare with Win2K running on it since some of my friends that use my computer sporadically are linux illiterate... so perhaps the true solution is to delete VMWare and find new friends... ^_^

frippz · Post by **frippz** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 7:12 pm

I dual boot. The strange thing is however, that I haven't touched Windows for all summer. I guess I'm using it as some sort of safety line if I ever got into a situation where Windows was required. And for the games of course. But as I have said before in other posts, the games I play right now has native Linux support.

Mindstab · Post by **Mindstab** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 7:55 pm

just gentoo on my main box and server
openbsd on my laptop, but i m thinking about moving it to gentoo
(better encrypted filesystem support from what i've seen)

then there's my poor test os box (486 150mhz, 2 gig hd)
its got gnu hurd and freebsd right now
but i want to switch it to freebsd and netbsd , and possibly openbsd as well if i take it off my laptop (it might just be possible)

charlieg · Post by **charlieg** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 10:01 pm

I was tempted to answer 'just one and it is fu[c]king Windows' since my Gentoo install quite simply did fuck my Windows install which now no longer exists. I needed it to be in past tense, I guess.

Aonoa · Post by **Aonoa** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 10:26 pm

No dual booting here.. only true booting into Gentoo Linux

Phlaegel · Post by **Phlaegel** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 10:28 pm

I hate dual booting... it's one OS per machine for me. Two Gentoo boxes (desktop and server) and a WinXP box for games.

Celtis · Post by **Celtis** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 11:15 pm

Mindstab wrote: its got gnu hurd and freebsd right now
but i want to switch it to freebsd and netbsd

Not impressed with hurd then?

Mindstab · Post by **Mindstab** » Thu Jul 31, 2003 11:33 pm

> Not impressed with hurd then?

Hmmm... Well, mostly I'm using these OS's to get familiar with them, but primarily for software cross platform testing. Compared to a BSD, hurd just doesn't cut it, audiance wise. It'd be better to support all 3 BSD's if I can. Additionally, I am usually quite strapped for cash, and hurd doesn't support my (>$20) dlink ethernet card. I'd have to go spend $35 on a 3com ethernet card just to make hurd useful, and it's just not quite worth it yet.

Hurd does seem to have improved alot since the last time I played with it (a little over a year ago), but it still doesn't seem real or viable just yet. If I get the chance sometime, sure I'd make sure my software ran on it within reason (not a lot of effort if porting is needed re: not worth it). But I only have so many resources right now, and they could be better used that a hurd partition

Maybe in a few more years, although considering hurd's long development and relativly little showing, it stil might be a while before it is really ready...

jetblack · Post by **jetblack** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 12:22 am

Just gentoo here.

As an aside, I love the distinction between "mighty windows" and "fucking windows". Brilliant pollcrafting.

kesuari · Post by **kesuari** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 5:30 am

I have Gentoo and Windows. But to boot Windows, which I only do incredibly rarely (I have it installed in case I ever need to run a bit of Windows-only software because I've never been able to get Wine working acceptible, and because I'd need to buy a licence for VMWare, and because I have an OEM licence to WinXP Home, but I've only used it twice since I got this laptop a few weeks ago, and both were just to see what I was missing out on... and I concluded nothing), I'd have to add it to lilo, and I'm too lazy to do that anyway.

Moled · Post by **Moled** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 6:06 am

just gentoo

I tried to install win 98 (since there are actually official drivers for my hardware) but as soon as it booted it kindly presented me with a bsod (how kind of it)

so it got wiped

Anacific · Post by **Anacific** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 6:15 am

I dual boot with XP because my family refuses to use anything that's not Windows.

beejay · Post by **beejay** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 6:20 am

Hmm...

Interesting is, that most people say "Just one and its Gentoo". Now the question is "How many OS'es".

So with most people saying "Just one and its Gentoo" that would mean "I have one Operating System on my PC and Gentoo" - So gentoo is no OS for you !?

kesuari · Post by **kesuari** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 6:39 am

beejay wrote:Hmm...

Interesting is, that most people say "Just one and its Gentoo". Now the question is "How many OS'es".

So with most people saying "Just one and its Gentoo" that would mean "I have one Operating System on my PC and Gentoo" - So gentoo is no OS for you !? ;)

Umm.. pardon? You seem to be contradicting yourself?

shagrat · Post by **shagrat** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 9:43 am

atm: just the fucking Windows, but next week the mashine will belong to gentoo.

Raoul_Duke · Post by **Raoul_Duke** » Fri Aug 01, 2003 10:20 am

Gentoo and only Gentoo

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