grumpy

You miss my point, Harakim.

I've never sat down to a cup of coffee and a nice afternoon playing with any OS either.

My point is that there are more choices for beginners than just windows, macos, and some of the linux distros. While the BSDs are mostly used by professionals (who transition to them after using other OSs or for particular reasons), the perception that they are completely unsuited for beginners is wrong. And for beginners who want to grow their skills and knowledge they are certainly better than a few others.

splinter9x

I think all OS's should come with there own cpu at the same price as the OS. This may be expensive but at least you can have all of the OS's on different computers and now just have one computer with a single OS on it... I know this will never happen but it shure would be nice.

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bl00dninja

why would it be nice to have to buy a new computer every time you wanted a different OS? i don't need three microwaves to cook different kinds of food.

i could have 10 OS's on my shitty athlon 3000 if i wanted to...now i only have 2. i'm assuming that's one more than you.

as to your final sentance, that's what bill gates has, effectively, already done.

BTW windows costs $200. good fucking luck trying to find the hardware to support it at that price.

most *nix's are free, that makes it a little tougher.

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splinter9x

No I mean it would be nice if a computer came with the OS when you purchased it, so the computer wouldn't cost a thing. All you do is buy the OS and you get the computer with the OS already installed... All I am saying is that it would be nice, not that it is going to happen.

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DaWei

In the typical computer world (the one you're familiar with), OSes are not NOW associated with the computer. When you power your system up it has no OS beyond the BIOS. That's what booting does: installs an OS and gives it control. The reason people associate the OS with the machine these days is because it's installed on a hard drive that is set to boot if nothing else does, either automatically or by user intervention. If you removed your hard drive and put in another with another OS, you would have another OS on your machine.

Theoretically, you could put your OS into non-volatile memory and never have to boot, just initialize. Be a hell of a shot for whatever kind of ROM or core of whatever you decided to use, though. It's done all the time in the embedded world, where the OS is minimal.

The point is you contribute trash. That's my personal opinion, sure. The other point is you keep sniping. You are one of those unknowledgeable types that didn't come to learn, but to propagate your ignorance in an attempt to bolster your self-esteem. See your comments in this very thread. You've made that eminently clear. You didn't even understand a positive response when you got one. And not only from me, from Toro, also.

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Ooble

Back to the topic...

I've only tried FreeBSD, but like Grumpy, I'd like to see a comparison between the different BSDs. I'd also love to see some sort of comparison between different types of Linux distros: something like Arch Linux or Gentoo is very different to Fedora or SUSE, which is again different from, say, Knoppix.

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I still think that ReactOS would be a good one to test out. It's supposed to emulate windows and run most windows programs and drivers (though it's still in the .3 stages so it's buggy). I would like to see that one tested out.

splinter9x

Whatever, you can think what you want but you don't know what I post so you have no idea how much or what I contribute. You hardly contribute I have seen some of your post and they dont even help the person that much. O well DaWei I'm done arguing with you, I would like to end this with you, Your call.

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DaWei

My call is that you contribute trash, and you can call my posts that, if you like. You are so busy spouting barf that you've no doubt not even looked. You are a dummy on a mission to look like an expert. It won't work except with the rawest noobs.

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python

Through my experience with Unix I conclude that if you really want to use hard core Unix you want something like netBSD. but if you just want to casually use unix use FreeBSD. Also FreeBSD is much better documented and supported as well as more widely used.