I am an OS Junkie
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I remember using ndiswrapper on Suse for years!
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@scottalanmiller said:
@marcinozga said:
@scottalanmiller said:
Mandrake stands to this day as the worst Linux OS I've ever used. And the only one that I ever paid for support on. And the only one that turned out to actually be a scam (no support people once you paid for support, literally nothing, the whole company was just running a scam.) OS didn't install at all, did nothing.
I had exactly the opposite experience with it. I didn't have any major issues with it, I got it to run without any effort on all kinds of hardware, even dial-up modems worked
I'm sure that it worked some places. My issues with it were that the support option was a literal scam - it did not exist at all, and that it was less usable than any other distro I had used for the five years leading up to it and all since. It was sold as the user friendly one so I got it for my wife who, at the time, was a scientist, to use as a gaming rig (it was the gaming edition) and the whole thing turned out to be useless. But any other distro installed on the same box, no problems.
I think I ran into that edition. I might have actually got a bootleg of it, because I remember playing Tux Racer
I can't say anything about support, because I've never had a need for it, and I wouldn't pay anyway.
I've had a lot of installation issues in the past, with all kinds of systems, and majority were attributed to bad optical media.
But in the end I don't blame you for moving on, I would have done exactly the same. If a system wouldn't install, I'd just grab a different distro. -
Has anybody here actually used BeOS? I remember having it as my major OS at some point. I got the CD from some magazine, and it had some weird booting process, I think it had to be booted from Windows, only the commercial version was using bootloader. But once running, it was really great system for working with music and videos.
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@marcinozga said:
Has anybody here actually used BeOS? I remember having it as my major OS at some point. I got the CD from some magazine, and it had some weird booting process, I thing it had to be booted from Windows, only the commercial version was using bootloader. But once running, it was really great system for working with music and videos.
Not only have I used it, I still have every major book published on it AND the original BeOS off the shelf box!!
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I wish that we could still get BeOS running
Anyone have any suggestions for cool OSes to be testing out? Desktop, server or otherwise?
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@scottalanmiller said in I am an OS Junkie:
I wish that we could still get BeOS running
Anyone have any suggestions for cool OSes to be testing out? Desktop, server or otherwise?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_(operating_system) ? And sure, I know one or two
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I've thought about Haiku. I've never installed it, though.
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@scottalanmiller said in I am an OS Junkie:
I've thought about Haiku. I've never installed it, though.
Neither did I. Same for ReactOS, seems to be great, but never tried it.
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Question is... Have you worked with BSD yet? Great OS. Gentoo is something I love when it comes to Linux, there's always something to learn.
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@scottalanmiller said in I am an OS Junkie:
I wish that we could still get BeOS running
Anyone have any suggestions for cool OSes to be testing out? Desktop, server or otherwise?
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I've only ever found one OS that I just didn't like, OpenVMS. I couldn't wrap my head around everything being a program rather than the everything is a file thing at the time. I'm actually sad Digital Equipment Corp isn't around anymore, they made good stuff, even if I never understood the OS.
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@MattSpeller said in I am an OS Junkie:
@scottalanmiller said in I am an OS Junkie:
I wish that we could still get BeOS running
Anyone have any suggestions for cool OSes to be testing out? Desktop, server or otherwise?
Have you never heard about the Geneva Convention?
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@thwr said in I am an OS Junkie:
Question is... Have you worked with BSD yet? Great OS. Gentoo is something I love when it comes to Linux, there's always something to learn.
Yup, of course. FreeBSD, OpenBSD and Dragonfly are all up and running.
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@travisdh1 said in I am an OS Junkie:
I've only ever found one OS that I just didn't like, OpenVMS. I couldn't wrap my head around everything being a program rather than the everything is a file thing at the time. I'm actually sad Digital Equipment Corp isn't around anymore, they made good stuff, even if I never understood the OS.
I like OpenVMS, haven't worked on it for years. Really wish that it was open source and available for AMD64. Sadly, it is all but lost to the world now.
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@scottalanmiller said in I am an OS Junkie:
@travisdh1 said in I am an OS Junkie:
I've only ever found one OS that I just didn't like, OpenVMS. I couldn't wrap my head around everything being a program rather than the everything is a file thing at the time. I'm actually sad Digital Equipment Corp isn't around anymore, they made good stuff, even if I never understood the OS.
I like OpenVMS, haven't worked on it for years. Really wish that it was open source and available for AMD64. Sadly, it is all but lost to the world now.
Yeah. If I would have had time to learn it rather than being lambasted because I didn't already know it, my memories of it would probably be a lot better.
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It was heavily in use by the local university in the early 1990s here in Western NY. And my dad had used VMS (before it was OpenVMS) a lot at Eastman Kodak on the PDP machines so I was familiar with it to some degree because of that going way back to the VAX era.
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And I've even supported it once or twice on VAX in my day!!
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@scottalanmiller said in I am an OS Junkie:
And I've even supported it once or twice on VAX in my day!!
My first IT job we had an old mini VAX sitting in the server room. I forget what in the world it did, but the only time it stopped was when the switched over to a single UPS for then entire server room.
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I was just talking to someone about OpenVMS the other day. It was the standard for SUNY systems way back when.
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@coliver said in I am an OS Junkie:
I was just talking to someone about OpenVMS the other day. It was the standard for SUNY systems way back when.
Yup. SUNY Geneseo is where I saw it back then.
