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Calum:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---Anyway Calum the spellchecker you use can
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Master of Reality:
i never liked fedora... although i used to use redhat all the time. I can't recall many that i actually tried and disliked. I think im just a loving person.

Ahh.. i think the "distro" i tried to make  with build your own linux and failed would have to be the shittyest i tried to use.

Nobber:
Well, my vote must go to Ubuntu - not because it's a shitty distro exactly, but because it's the only distro I've ever tried whose installer failed to recognise the partition table on /dev/hda, so I couldn't even install it. :rolleyes:

Kintaro:

--- Quote from: Aloone_Jonez ---Well there's a thread to discuss your favorate distro, now how about the one that sucks the most?

Redhat/Fedora
I came to this forum dissing Linux because I'd had a bad experiance with Redhat 9 - it's slower than XP and often locks up. I recently tried Fedora Core 3 and it hasn't improved at all it's just as bloated as ever and to think people criticise Windows for this.

Linspire
I admit I haven't tried Linspire but it sucks because you have to pay to get software that would otherwise be free and their marketing policy is a joke too:http://www.gapmanwebdesign.com/runlinspire.php
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 I don't know whats in your crackpipe, but I have Fedora Core 3 running beautifully on my machine over here (PIII 850), with still plenty of ram to spare, does it do nothing? Hell no.

It runs SMBD which is freqently used by me to watch DVD's in bed from my laptop which stream off the harddisk, try getting this to run reliably with Windows XP hosting the files, or Windows 2003 Server, I have tried both and it works terribly.

It runs Apache2/PHP as well hosting a SSL powered forum along with MySQL which take up a reasonable amount of memory together. Especially using SSL!

It hosts SSH, NFS, Webmin, and snort (better security then anything Microsoft ships with, Fedora Core 3 ships with this, some of the most advanced IDS security around, for nothing).

Along with that it constantly runs XMMS and mplayer so I can watch movies and listen to music, so it doubles as a multimedia station. It runs WindowMaker and usually has 5 workspaces running with xterms spawled across them to monitor things, it also constantly runs Bittorrent and Nicotine.

Oh and Gaim, another 10mb or so of ram.

This system has 375mb of ram availible to Linux, with 190Mb free at the moment.

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My windows XP laptop is currently running Gaim, Firefox, Cygwin, Windowblinds, Google Mail Notifier, The OpenOffice Quicklaunch, and a virus checker (somthing I dont even need on Linux).

It has an AMD 2600+ Mobile Sempron.

It has 512mb of ram.

It boots slowerer then the fedora machine which is packed with services and other things.

It is currently using 381mb of ram.

Even when the Fedora Core 3 machine was running Gnome 2.8, it used far less ram and still started slightly faster.

So where is the bloat?

Kintaro:
Oh and the XP Laptop has some other problems as well...
* Freqent issues with networking, suddenly all TCP based conenctions are refused and cut, and ICMP only works. When I often try to select the "Repair" mode or simpily disable and renable the Local Area Network it stalls and causes the Operating System to crash.
* While doing some bandwidth testing with some software, it got a STOP error and an instant reboot, networking related.
* I have had no problems like this using Knoppix for network testing from now on, and have tried to crash it many times, because I figured it was the network adapter: Nope, Windows, or the Adapters Driver (provided by Microsoft) is fucked.
* Lack of POSIX compliance.
* Lack of Software compatibility (see above) for the software I run.
* Poor filesystem (no case sensitivity)
* Poor security updates system (getting informed about updates is rather hit and miss)
* Poor control over how security updates are handled, you get three options with this.
* Openoffice loads quicker on my Pentium III.
* Using any decent themes requires third party software that is shareware.
* Poor webbrowser shipped with Operating System.
* Poor stability with explorer.exe
* Poor interface on Microsoft provided Instant Messengers (and features) MSN 7.0 does not support: Tabs, Mouse Gestures, Buddy Pounce, Multiprotocol, and also the Interface is horrible to use and navigate.
* Poor control over soundcard (I have noticed on this laptop and on my PC that Linux is literally LOUDER then windows in sound output and because of this greater sound output the amount of noise on the line is far less then in Windows.
* Specialist DVD and CD recording requires serveral third party applications.
* DVD ripping requires more third party applications.
* Windows Media Player 10 causes many issues with proformance, more third party software required.

Fedora Core 3 on the other hand, does not need so much third party software to get things done, Fedora Core 3 features far more advanced security, A far more advanced Graphical User Interface and Command Line Interface.

Windows XP Home costs money

Fedora Core 3 was originally Fedora Core 1, which I got off a friend, which was then upgraded when I got apt-get.

So uhm, where is the bloat.

Moreso, Windows does not run most my applications, that is a fact, and a sad one at that when millions of loosers with subaverage genitals bitch about Linux and Software compatibility.

Yes! I am downloading the FC3 DVD as we speak to never use Microsloth again, like I did before I got the laptop.

After nearly three months (got it for christmas), Windows can get fucked... forever.

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