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Heru:
A cray is an extremely powerful super computer. It is often used to plot weather patterns and astronomical events. It was also used in 1983 to make the very first digitally animated film scenes(ever) in "2010: The Year we Make Contact".
Windows would have a heart attack on it, while Linux works micely. Back in the 80's they used Unix, obviously.
Ctrl Alt Del 123:
"uh huh? so you get a lot of practice at being called a nerd then do you?"
Hell yea, my school presentation of "The Personal Computer Revolution" and my entire section DEDICATED to unix made some people think I was a hacker.
Don't underestimate stupid people, they might do something dumb. - Me.
Chooco:
actually if people listened to the entire story of Linux they would switch over in a second. KDE is just like Windows. if you can use Windows, you can use KDE. the console is a lot like DOS, if you liked DOS then you will love Linux (i liked DOS a LOT ). you can run almost any windows program in Linux, my friend and i can both run Half-Life, Unreal Tournament and Sim City through Wine. if you go to console and tye "xinit" you get the GUI ability of well a GUI lol but the speed of console.
hey what about BSD? have you ever suggested BSD to a friend? i'm not sure if i want to try that or not, can BSD run KDE? does it have the same commands?
Heru:
quote:Originally posted by Chooco:
hey what about BSD? have you ever suggested BSD to a friend? i'm not sure if i want to try that or not, can BSD run KDE? does it have the same commands?
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If by BSD you mean FreeBSD, OpenBSD, or NetBSD, then it is very similar to Linux. The BSD's I listed are free and open source, but not under the GPL, they have a more relaxed license to them. Many Linux programs are also available for them and they run many GNU programs just like Linux. The three BSD's above can run many Linux programs natively without modification(some programs just won't work). KDE is available and is included with the three. Most of the commands are identicle seeing as both BSD and Linux are POSIX compatible. The BSD's are harder to install but easy to maintain, and have lower system requirements such as being able to run in 5 megs of ram with 16megs recomended. The BSD's are generally not for desktop use but can do the job nicely. FreeBSD is even used by Microsoft, although they won't admit it. The BSD's don't support as much hardware or as many filesystems though, but they will run on most PC's nicely.
I suggest you try FreeBSD. But be careful when installing it, it is possible to fuck up your other OS's and it won't stop you. And some things are named differently in /dev then in Linux: I will list the Linux version then the BSD version:
/dev/hda1 = /dev/ad0s1a
/dev/hdb1 = /dev/ad1s1a
Hope that helps.
ravuya:
I've noticed that BSD feels more 'solid' than Linux. Linux feels like it was slopped together by a bunch of guys who didn't know each other and didn't communicate about bugs and probable issues.
BSD feels more solid, feels like everything is integrated all in one tight core. Maybe that's because the *BSD development teams are usually one centralized group who have to approve everything before it hits the final releases.
If I was using an x86, I'd prefer BSD for my kernel, though Linux is increasingly popular on the desktop. I'll have to wait and see if Linux becomes a little bit more tightly integrated and solid before I try to pick it up again.
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