Free OS preference?

I have had it with MicroSucks. :kissmy I have absolutely no :*** intentions to purchase Vista. I still have unresolved issues with my 1 copy of :crap XP.
Needless to mention I have 3 PCs in one room, 2 PCs in living room, 2 PCs in bed room, and a laptop. That's 8 x ??....you do the math on your own thread, I'm not interested.rolleyes
2 are older 98 machines. 5 of them were designed for XP though they are running 98 SE. 1 is near new and will run nothing but XP and does not even recognize a lot of older software.

My questions are which free OS do you prefer and why. Do you foresee any compilations running it on such a verity of machines.

 

Have a move down to

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/showthread.php?t=122279

 

AFAIK the best family of free OS is Linux. Hundreds of distributions to pick the one that suits you best. Other geeks can provide more info about Linux.

 

Fell free to peruse our Linux forum. I know I've pimped out Sabayon a ton, even if I don't use it

Truthfully though, as mentioned above, if you can't get a handle over Windows, then Linux will hold no answers for you. Its more work. A lot more work.

When things break, there is nothing graceful about it.

 

Mmmmmm Mmmm Excuse me I did not want to be rude trying to talk with my mouth full. This is meaty!!! Whew, I know is I'm probably not a geek and I don't have woot!
Thanks for the link I got it on DVD now. Can you read my future....Linux threads.
I may not be as down on MS as I appear. I have some what been defending them for years and running with blinders on. Which kind of explains why I know so little about other OS. And I agree MS does do well out of the box. And a lot of the troubles do go back to third parties not getting off their ***. Can't that be said for MAC and Linux as well?.I have learned through experience and have had lots of opportunity. So the loading does not concern me as much as the missed software...my future is getting closer. And do I need a driver if I'm not going anywhere? Hummm I think I just crashed into another thread....
Meanwhile I need to chew this *nix thing some more. What little I have found about it sounds interesting.
So thank you all this is very informative. And Adrynalyne your blog was very funny too.

 

BTW- what the heck is 'woot' ??? I've been seeing it around for awhile now, and I have NO idea what it means! And what about 'pwnd' ?? What's that all about?

(Yeah- I know I'm not contributing here, but what the heck, at least I'll learn something, right? )

 

As far as the pwned hopperdave, I can give you a link for that. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pwn

The woot part, I also have no clue. I did find a link for it also. http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=woot

tigertom: Linux has been ok for me as far as a folding machine, or just a web browsing type computer. I constantly bang my head against a steep learning curve using it. It took me a couple of months to get folding working on the Linux machines. And yep, I got it running with the mouse, the CLI freaks me out. I am trying to learn though.

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Kind of a goofy story there. Originally Kodo made my title say, 'Have you tried Safe Mode?' when I was doing Microst Windows XP support. Then, as I moved into the nix world, Kodo changed it to 'Got root?' Then, somewhere along the line he felt it would be cute to change it to 'Got Woot?'.

I don't have enough moderator privileges to change it back, so its stuck there for now, till I Kodo decides to change it again