what OS are you running?

[moonhead]

right now i'm running windows Xp on my dell laptop...but I just installed a new larger hard drive and partitioned it in half...so I'm thinking about running a dual boot with linux.

any linux users out there with a recommendation?
a friend at work suggested ubuntu, i think....i am also interested in freeBSD.

ideas?

[Redskins Win]

Windows 2000, I'm not a geek so I don't have much demand for anything more.

[J2thez929]

right now i'm running windows Xp on my dell laptop...but I just installed a new larger hard drive and partitioned it in half...so I'm thinking about running a dual boot with linux.

any linux users out there with a recommendation?
a friend at work suggested ubuntu, i think....i am also interested in freeBSD.

ideas?

I'm currently running XP as i'm sure most people are.

As for Ubuntu... I used it during my final college capstone as part of a network for our FTP server. It was pretty easy to install and configure b/c the driver/software packages you need are just a few clicks and they installed through a menu on the desktop. Besides Ubuntu, I've used Red Hat and it was ok. Nothing special though. I've also heard that Suze is pretty good but i have never used it.

[Alkaholik]

Whats wrong with Win 3.1?

[Lushcrush]

The Fedora core is not bad. Or you could just fill the entire extra partition with porn ...

[moonhead]

The Fedora core is not bad. Or you could just fill the entire extra partition with porn ...

i like porn just as much as the next guy, but 30 gigs seems a bit extreme.

[Horizons]

I've been running FBSD for many years and think it's a great os. It's gotten more user friendly over the years and the install is quite easy, just check the docs ahead of time to be sure about hdwr compatibility.

[SwiperNoSwiping]

right now i'm running windows Xp on my dell laptop...

About sums it up for me.

[moonhead]

so, updated: after about 2.5 years of twidling my thumbs and playing with different incarnations of xp and vista, i took the plunge last night. installed teh ubuntu. i like it so far. some things are difficult to grasp. the command line procedures are not that intuitive. i am still learning that stuff. i can't seem to get my webcam to work. but that's not a huge deal.

i installed the 64bit version of ubuntu. that has created a problem with installing flash player. i do have a friend that is a unix admin, and he's been helping me through some of this stuff. without him i would have been totally lost.

but i'm having fun tinkering.

because, i know you're all so interested. i would have updated the moonblog, but that somehow got disappeared.

[logan]

xp pro 32 bit

when i built my comp 64 bit was still a little bit wonky with drivers and apps and the performance difference was actually pretty even up even with a dual core setup so i chose 32 bit to keep my headaches down with trying to get things to work.