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[firestar12]

On Linux! Fedora to be exact. I am in love with it. I might partition it on my hard drive, or replace windows entirely. And I can get Blender for it. At the moment I am running it on live, (on a CD disk). Let me know if you have heard of it and should I do it? I can still get ShipSim on my desktop (Which currently has the "Personal Anti Virus" Trojan.) Terry, if you could help me get rid of that that would be good.

[llamalord]

I personally use Unix or Konopix when I ever have to do something on my computer that is too high powered for widows.  I have three drives in my computer.  Two of them are used for windows mainly, and one of the is for Linux.  In my new computer (Flash is his name) I only have one 1.5 terrabyte drive but I have another terrabyte drive on order and am looking for another 640GB drive just for Linux.

[firestar12]

I personally use Unix or Konopix when I ever have to do something on my computer that is too high powered for widows.  I have three drives in my computer.  Two of them are used for windows mainly, and one of the is for Linux.  In my new computer (Flash is his name) I only have one 1.5 terrabyte drive but I have another terrabyte drive on order and am looking for another 640GB drive just for Linux.

Lucky! It must be expensive, a 1 TB drive haha...I should ask my uncle if I can have one lol. I hate live, it runs so slow.

[kerNeli]

I use mainly linux. I have 3 server computer with Gentoo and my gaming computer with Debian and Win7 RC for few things i cant do in linux.
I want to move 100% to linux but i cant cause my job. I must use Autodesks and Adobes programs in Windows.

I havent tried yet but maybe Ship Sim runs on Wine/Cegeka too.

[llamalord]

Lucky! It must be expensive, (One Terrabyte drive)

You don't know that half of it, even more when you have a total of about Six Peta Bytes in your house

[capn_cal]

is fedora a ship?

[llamalord]

Well that question went no where good.

[firestar12]

No, CC, Fedora is an operating system, much like windows. Here is a screenshot of my desktop.

[TNeves]

Linux is great, I've tried Ubuntu and some other debian based distros, however my favourite is PCLinuxOS, based on Mandriva with KDE 3.5 it's rock stable and über fast! It detected all my hardware with no problems at all. But I don't use Linux as my main SO, because I use a lot of Windows programs that I don't have in Linux.

[Firestar]

I'm sorry to bump this old thread but may I ask you TNeves, if you like Debian based distros, have you considered trying Debian?

Also, I've got another PC the other day, I've had it for a while but it really hasn't been "mine", me and my brother had fixed a hardware issue (motherboard overhaul) and haven't gotten it back to the person who owned it. *My Sis *

She said I could have it though so as we speak I'm booting a Fedora 12 live CD on it, and it's loading the desktop right now. I'll be able to have a laptop again! My old one's charger broke...

[McGherkin]

I know a hacker friend who has got Linux onto a flash drive, and runs it on school computers...
(of course they never work again unless on Linux, our IT staff must be pretty flummoxed)

[Firestar]

Hacker? I'm curious what he can actually do. The word hacker has been blown way out of proportion these days...

Destruction of others' property isn't very kind either.. why is this guy your friend?

[McGherkin]

Bearing in mind it takes 30 mins to log on to a school computer anyway, running Linux is obviously an improvement. Also, every person in our school has modified or cheated the school system in one way or another, It's 1300 people wondering why one of the best funded IT departments in the county supplies us with such terrible equipment...

He isn't destroying the property, just adapting it to work best for
him. All ICT has to do is reinstall windoze, and it'll work again. And since he's done it only on 2 or 3 computers, it's hardly going to kill the budget of the school...

It's nothing he hasn't done on his own computer. Anyway, he's a good bloke, He doesn't write malicious software, just helpful software.

[Firestar]

Bearing in mind it takes 30 mins to log on to a school computer anyway, running Linux is obviously an improvement. Also, every person in our school has modified or cheated the school system in one way or another, It's 1300 people wondering why one of the best funded IT departments in the county supplies us with such terrible equipment...

He isn't destroying the property, just adapting it to work best for
him. All ICT has to do is reinstall windoze, and it'll work again. And since he's done it only on 2 or 3 computers, it's hardly going to kill the budget of the school...

It's nothing he hasn't done on his own computer. Anyway, he's a good bloke, He doesn't write malicious software, just helpful software.

A) Then how is he a hacker?
B) Just because everyone does it doesn't make it right
C) What if they had data on there that was lost? They just can't keep reinstalling OSs, it doesn't matter how small of a difference it makes, he can still hurt a lot of people.

[clanky]

What seem really silly about that is that it is possible to run linux either from a live CD or with most distributions it can be run from a USB stick without removing Windows (P.S. Windoze / micro$oft and other such nonsense are like a stupid midget, it's not big and it's not clever).

[Firestar]

I like the ability to do that, because how else would you do things? It also provides great versatility.

[McGherkin]

A) Then how is he a hacker?
B) Just because everyone does it doesn't make it right
C) What if they had data on there that was lost? They just can't keep reinstalling OSs, it doesn't matter how small of a difference it makes, he can still hurt a lot of people.

A) A hacker is someone who edits software to his own ends.
B) Fair Point
C) No data CAN be stored on them, unless you are a hacker, in which case you'll have it backed up. Maybe IT might install an OS that the computer can handle.