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« on: April 28, 2008, 11:39:54 am » |
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I want to try another distro but I'm not sure which. I want something interesting to play with and remember I'm a gentoo user so I get bored easily. I did lfs which was terrible. Any suggestons?
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« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2008, 01:51:25 pm » |
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Why don't you give one of the BSD flavors a shot? Try FreeBSD or one of the "easy" BSD's Like PCBSD. Something a little different for you.  |
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« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2008, 02:13:12 pm » |
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Slackware is like BSD. I see her getting bored with that in less than a week.
Mystified, why not try programming. Pick a project you like, and start off with patches and little things. From there you can go anywhere. I, like you, got bored a while ago. I just decided, instead of distro hopping, I'd delve deeper.
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« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2008, 04:53:06 pm » |
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I tried slack a long time ago. I was thinking about FreeBSD. As far as programming I changed my major because I don't like to program. :smile:
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Steve Scrimpshire
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« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2008, 05:58:12 pm » |
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They are teaching CentOS here at my school (well, it's not my school, but the school I go to)...although I haven't taken it and don't know that much about it.
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« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2008, 08:51:09 pm » |
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I wouldnt want you to do anything unethical but: http://wiki.osx86project.org/wiki/index.php/Main_PageFor educational purposes of course. |
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« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2008, 09:11:13 pm » |
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No problems here ac_dispatcher  |
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« Reply #7 on: May 02, 2008, 10:52:28 pm » |
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don't try the new ubunut its boring !!!! everything just works .. no hacking required  even my tablet stylus, and screen rotation work without a hitch  yes I am a nutter (one who use ubuNUT ) |
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« Reply #8 on: May 02, 2008, 11:43:44 pm » |
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Man, I catch her in one typo and you just won't let it go, will ya?
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« Reply #9 on: May 03, 2008, 12:43:29 am » |
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don't try the new ubunut its boring !!!! everything just works .. no hacking required even my tablet stylus, and screen rotation work without a hitch yes I am a nutter (one who use ubuNUT )  |
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« Reply #10 on: May 06, 2008, 11:12:25 am » |
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I've done LFS, Slack, Fedora, Arch, OpenSuse, Gentoo, Debian, Ubuntu and I'm bored. So I want to try OS X.
What's the version I should buy?
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« Reply #11 on: May 06, 2008, 01:31:39 pm » |
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So I want to try OS X.
What's the version I should buy?
Unless you happen to have an extra (recent model) Mac sitting around, I wouldn't bother trying to run OS X. Your choices are basically try to build a system that has hardware that OS X can run on (and then download a hacked version of OS X), or buy a Mac. Unless you actually want to use OS X on a regular basis neither of these options is worth your time. |
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« Reply #12 on: May 06, 2008, 07:17:27 pm » |
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Well I'm not trying to argue but just ask questions. According to the wiki I read and the question I asked on the forum I shouldn't have any hardware compatability issues. It said I need to format the partition I want to use as fat32 and that's the only one OS X would see. There's even an explanation on how to edit grub.
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« Reply #13 on: May 06, 2008, 08:08:58 pm » |
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Well I'm not trying to argue but just ask questions. Not trying to argue either...just giving advice. Sorry. |
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« Reply #14 on: May 06, 2008, 10:07:59 pm » |
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I know you weren't trying to argue. I was just wanting some advice before I do anything.
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