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Postby goat balls » Thu Aug 18, 2016 10:48 pm

Ubuntu, Kurt?

ReactOS?
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Re: Ubuntu

Postby nowonmai » Thu Aug 18, 2016 10:51 pm

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Re: Ubuntu

Postby goat balls » Thu Aug 18, 2016 11:38 pm

Trying to get some free scuttlebutt out of Kurt without buying him a case of m&m's. Need to get him to talk about Linux mint as well.
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Re: Ubuntu

Postby Kurt » Fri Aug 19, 2016 12:19 am

Depends what you want. Want to use with little learning needed. Then Ubuntu is great (I use an Ubuntu based distro called Mint, it has all the multimedia codecs I need for Video and Music piracy listening to music and watching Creative Commons licensed documentaries.

If you want something for server quality stuff then go for Centos.

If you want something that can run Windows programs then ReactOS. My German nerd friends swear that ReactOS is the only operating system anyone needs who is not a German nerd, but I dunno.

The cool thing about the free stuff is you can install it and try it out.

If you want to learn from scratch, like how everything works, then NetBSD. It installs right away from a DVD or CD but then it does nothing else. You gotta get everything on it running from scratch. By the time you are done you will know everything there is to know.
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Re: Ubuntu

Postby goat balls » Fri Aug 19, 2016 1:01 am

Oh vey but you can't just load it up and try it out without wiping out your windows based stuff? You can put it on external drives I know, but it's guaranteed to have problems with the new OS and even problems if you have to reload win7. I've heard that you can remove Windows OS, then reload win7 and they'll leave you in peace.

You computer people are making all of this much to difficult to navigate and deal with in general. There is nothing safe about the Internet as well. Especially the banking stuff. Plus they allow the British on Internet. Probably the Welsh too.

Microsoft being on their surveillance tear with win10 Trojan horse means we need a new OS.
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Re: Ubuntu

Postby ROB » Fri Aug 19, 2016 5:26 am

I fucked around partitioning a drive to install windows and ubuntu.

Then I threw the fucking thing out the window and got a mac.

No regrets, but will happily go back to pc if they get their shit together.
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Re: Ubuntu

Postby Kurt » Fri Aug 19, 2016 6:00 pm

Why dual boot?

Xen can set up a container and is free in both Linux and Windows. Hyper-V is free in Windows and you get set up any distro you want on both to check it out.

I still have a dual boot Windows Server 2008 and Linux Mint but I am no longer using the 2008 partition for anything but storage now (I got my license used in a cheapo VPS) but if you have the processor and RAM resources then finding a virtualization program to use is worth it. If you have Windows, use Hyper-V and if you have Linux, use Xen, if you want to do anything with it, pay for one of VMware's products.
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Re: Ubuntu

Postby flipflop » Sun Aug 21, 2016 11:27 am

Ucuntu

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Re: Ubuntu

Postby Q » Sun Aug 21, 2016 11:48 am

I have no problem admitting if it isn't porn or email, I'm completely fucking lost on computers.

Seriously...I can't even fucking rip a movie from Pirate Bay without help from my 9 year old son.

If someone came up with software for dummies, and I mean like seriously fucking stupid, not the book that's already out because even that is like Swahili to me, then he/she/it would be filthy fucking rich overnight.
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Re: Ubuntu

Postby goat balls » Sun Aug 21, 2016 1:45 pm

Just remember Q, computer software now is all about you and your information that they can sell to the highest bidder. It's creepy as hell. These mega corporations keeping a Q file. I'm not interested in being part of their deal.

I also don't think that computers, software or the Internet is safe in any way. I'm getting ready to set up new bank accounts at a local credit union and they will never be accessed by me through the Internet. I want a monthly statement on a piece of paper sent to my office in the mail every month.
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Re: Ubuntu

Postby Douchebag » Sun Aug 21, 2016 2:39 pm

flipflop wrote:Ucuntu

Cheers


Huh?
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Re: Ubuntu

Postby ROB » Sun Aug 21, 2016 9:04 pm

The privacy horse bolted in the 90s.
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Re: Ubuntu

Postby 2 Charlie » Mon Aug 22, 2016 2:17 pm

I am sure the puter knowledgable will ask WTF. I run Parallels and have MacOs, Windows and Ubuntu on my MacBook.
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Re: Ubuntu

Postby Kurt » Tue Aug 23, 2016 12:48 am

flipflop wrote:Ucuntu

Cheers


It's fairly easy to make your own "Linux Distro" all you have to do is give credit where credit is do. So you could make a FlipFlop friendly Distro called Ucuntu and give out DVDs for installation of it by christmas.

Ucuntu OS would be a good stocking stuffer.
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Re: Ubuntu

Postby ROB » Tue Aug 23, 2016 1:19 am

Let's not give FF too many ways to spread his cuntiness.
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