Linux

[Mission Difficult]

Just wondering if anyone around here is big on linux. We've had some downtime at work lately and a bunch of G4s laying around, so we put fedora on one of them and I've been screwing around with it. Pretty cool if you ask me.

[CaffeinePowered]

Id recommend Unbuntu or Mandriva, thats what I personally have experience with.

Red Hat is fine too.


Im not a huge linux nut because most games won't run on it, even with Wine. However I usually run it on my back up boxes.

[Mission Difficult]

You could run a TF2 server on linux though, no?

[ToiletDuck]

You could run a TF2 server on linux though, no?

yup, but you can't play it

[ScottyGrayskull]

If I win that Turning Point PC (pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease) this one is SO getting Linux put on it. ^_^

[Evil Cheese]

Wouldn't that kind of defeat the purpose? I mean if you're going to win a beefy computer, you might as well play games on it. Dual-booting I can understand. Love me some K/Ubuntu.

[exanimo]

I <3 linux and run it on my Laptop, Ubuntu 7.04 to be exact. I love it for everything but gaming.

[Fail Medic]

Ubuntu's neat, and I dual-boot with it and XP on my laptop, but... I really don't feel the need to hassle with it on my main PC.  I do dig that (and I may be misspeaking here, sorry) Ubuntu's support of NTFS has increased recently, I think with the last distribution, but anyway, tinkering with it on the laptop is about all I feel like doing with it.

[jorge]

If I win that Turning Point PC (pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease) this one is SO getting Linux put on it. ^_^

Instant disqualification

[Eschatos]

If any of you win that PC, then you are completely wasting it if you put Linux on it.  It's a gaming machine, no more, no less.

[CaffeinePowered]

Not to mention that turning point PC is ridiculously overpriced

[Mission Difficult]

For soothe. You could build something better for a little more than half the price.

[copulatingduck]

I think he meant he's putting Linux on his current compy. Ubuntu's alright, but it seems like it's gone a little downhill with the last release. I prefer Debian, but I actually use Linux for my server  :\

[Surf314]

My wife has ubuntu and she likes it, it turned a cheap laptop with Vista that was so slow it was useless to a decent laptop for school.

[exanimo]

For crappier machines, xubuntu is killer.

[ScottyGrayskull]

Wouldn't that kind of defeat the purpose? I mean if you're going to win a beefy computer, you might as well play games on it. Dual-booting I can understand. Love me some K/Ubuntu.

I meant my current computer, which isn't doing all that well.

Heck no I wouldn't waste a perfectly good high end computer by putting Linux on it! Putting Linux on a machine is the equivalent of putting it out to pasture, content to gaze from the sidelines while the good PCs have all the fun. :p

[ScottyGrayskull]

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If I win that Turning Point PC (pleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleasepleaseplease) this one is SO getting Linux put on it. ^_^

Instant disqualification
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NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

:'(

[ConsFEARacy]

Definitely gonna have to agree with Ubuntu! I use it on my laptop. It has got a few years on it and Linux helps to speed it up a bit. I do nothing but browse the internets on it when I'm away from home, but Beryl is awesome to play around with!

[Vandamguy]

Definitely gonna have to agree with Ubuntu! I use it on my laptop. It has got a few years on it and Linux helps to speed it up a bit. I do nothing but browse the internets on it when I'm away from home, but Beryl is awesome to play around with!

mmmm meryl

[ConsFEARacy]

mmmm meryl

Meryl!