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RB
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Joined: Wed Apr 16, 2003 1:25 am Posts: 2560
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What to choose?
I had WinXp with WinME (on two separated partitions). When I upgraded ME to Win2000, it screwed up WinXP somehow. I'm thinking about using only one operating system on my mech, but I don't know what to chose. What is more secure? XP or 2000?
Any other dis- and advantages which could decide?
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Fri Jan 28, 2005 5:39 pm |
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RB
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Joined: Wed Apr 16, 2003 1:25 am Posts: 2560
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I started to like 2k. Anyway, I'd like to hear some opinions when you return, in monday.
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Sat Jan 29, 2005 11:02 am |
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ElevenBravo
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Joined: Wed Apr 16, 2003 2:18 pm Posts: 1976 Location: Sexy Town
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Xp
Unless your running some kinda of a server, you would be stupid to take 2000 over xp.
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Sat Jan 29, 2005 12:00 pm |
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derf
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Joined: Fri Apr 11, 2003 2:17 pm Posts: 7721 Location: Centre of the sun
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XP.
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Mon Jan 31, 2005 6:48 am |
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RB
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Joined: Wed Apr 16, 2003 1:25 am Posts: 2560
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I won't leave 2k so easy. My mech finally breath freely. Only possibility of security issues can change my mind.
So?
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Last edited by RB on Mon Jan 31, 2005 2:51 pm, edited 1 time in total.
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Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:54 am |
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ElevenBravo
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Joined: Wed Apr 16, 2003 2:18 pm Posts: 1976 Location: Sexy Town
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XP
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Mon Jan 31, 2005 2:50 pm |
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Satis
Felix Rex
Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:01 pm Posts: 16662 Location: On a slope
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xp is a better overall O/S, in my opinion. At least once you turn off all the retarded prettiness and make it look more like win2k. 2k just runs slow, imo, especially boot times. XP is alot snappier.
The hard part about xp is tweaking it to operate properly (which is kinda part of my website). You can think of XP as an enhanced version of win2k, since it runs off the NT kernel too.
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Mon Jan 31, 2005 11:20 pm |
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derf
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Joined: Fri Apr 11, 2003 2:17 pm Posts: 7721 Location: Centre of the sun
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Lol, for a laugh, i installed this Linux thingy on a partition. Its called FreeBSD. I thought it would atleast have a GUI. Lol, i was wrong.
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Arathorn
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Joined: Tue Apr 01, 2003 10:23 am Posts: 3956 Location: Amsterdam
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*BSD is not Linux, it's an Unix flavour.
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Tue Feb 01, 2005 8:30 am |
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Satis
Felix Rex
Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:01 pm Posts: 16662 Location: On a slope
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I could've sworn FreeBSD ships with X-Windows. And what's with the hangup on a gui? GUIs aren't necessary...in fact, in many cases they can be a hindrance. They're certainly rough on memory and cpu usage. Bah....you guys are GUI bigots.
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Tue Feb 01, 2005 11:26 am |
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ElevenBravo
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Joined: Wed Apr 16, 2003 2:18 pm Posts: 1976 Location: Sexy Town
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The free download of Red Hat comes with a GUI and so does Mandrake if im not mistaken. Personaly I have SUSE.
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Tue Feb 01, 2005 11:54 am |
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derf
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Joined: Fri Apr 11, 2003 2:17 pm Posts: 7721 Location: Centre of the sun
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Mandrake does come with a GUI. Am i right i saying that when you say "free download" its actually a limited trial?
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Tue Feb 01, 2005 1:02 pm |
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ElevenBravo
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Joined: Wed Apr 16, 2003 2:18 pm Posts: 1976 Location: Sexy Town
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Last time I downloaded Red Hat it was free. But that was about a year ago.
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Tue Feb 01, 2005 2:34 pm |
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Satis
Felix Rex
Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:01 pm Posts: 16662 Location: On a slope
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All of it is free. That's part of the open-source world...the source code has to be made freely available. If the source is free, then someone, somewhere will compile it into binaries for you (usually the company giving out the source). The way they make money is selling the stuff on CD, bundling it with support of some sort (phone, tech, software, etc) and stuff like that.
IE, anything that says 'Free' is free...no time limit, no limitations, nothing. Any 'pay' version has some sort of value-added something or other, like tech support or dedicated download servers or books or whatever.
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Tue Feb 01, 2005 3:56 pm |
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RB
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Joined: Wed Apr 16, 2003 1:25 am Posts: 2560
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