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Favorite OS

Discussion in 'Computers & Modding' started by timmy1991, Jun 17, 2009.

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  1. bhatooth

    bhatooth Well-Known Member

    do you think firefox will make os?
     
    bhatooth, Jul 25, 2009
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  2. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    you mean Mozilla, and I doubt it.
     
    Loonylion, Jul 25, 2009
    #62
  3. Blade5406

    Blade5406 Well-Known Member

    Why should they?
     
    Blade5406, Jul 25, 2009
    #63
  4. TheNosh

    TheNosh Member

    no, but google is doing so with Android being ported to net books, and now chrome OS schedualed for 2010
     
    TheNosh, Jul 25, 2009
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  5. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    chrome OS is already out, it's nothing special. It can't do half the stuff a normal OS can and never will be able to.
     
    Loonylion, Jul 25, 2009
    #65
  6. TheNosh

    TheNosh Member

    they're still working on it though, official release isn't schedualed till 2010.

    as for the idea that it can't do half the stuff a normal OS can do, it's linux based and with a small amount of effort should be able to run local linux native software as well as the web apps google wants everyone to start using.

    personaly, i probably won't use it. i'm not much of a fan of cloud computing, and if their "new windowing system" is any good i'm sure it can be installed on Debian alongside my e17, gnome, xfce, lxde, and flux box installations.
     
    TheNosh, Jul 25, 2009
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  7. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    it's the whole web based thing that stops it doing half the stuff a normal OS can. Stuff like 3d modelling/animation and video editing will never be doable over a WAN.
     
    Loonylion, Jul 25, 2009
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  8. primenay13

    primenay13 Member


    Not true I have a computer that has 8gb of ram and quad core processor so everything runs smoothly and vista is amazing, way better than xp. Waiting now for windows 7
     
    primenay13, Jul 25, 2009
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  9. AceKilla

    AceKilla Well-Known Member

    Dual OS XP Sp3 and slackware :)
     
    AceKilla, Jul 25, 2009
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  10. TheNosh

    TheNosh Member

    thats why i mentioned the use of linux native applications on the local machine, these can handle things like 3d modeling quite nicely (blender for example)
     
    TheNosh, Jul 26, 2009
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  11. timmy1991

    timmy1991 Well-Known Member

    Well, I have now officially wiped Windows from my PC and installed Linux. I decided to go with OpenSUSE 11.1 with the Gnome GUI. It, gave my piece of shart computer a major speed boost.

    Speaking of OpenSUSE, how do I open a .rar file? I obviously can't use winrar, since win- stands for windows....
    I would like to play my new DS rom
     
    timmy1991, Jul 28, 2009
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  12. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    there is a version of winrar for linux. Try opening a terminal and typing 'yum install rar' and see if that helps.
     
    Loonylion, Jul 28, 2009
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  13. dmac154

    dmac154 Well-Known Member

    I tried that, but in the terminal screen it says something like it can't open some file in a lib. So I just gave up.

    Anyway, I'm updating my preferred OS.
    Its XP Pro sp3, then ubuntu and windows 7.
     
    dmac154, Jul 28, 2009
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  14. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    ubuntu is debian based so it wouldn't have yum.
     
    Loonylion, Jul 28, 2009
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  15. timmy1991

    timmy1991 Well-Known Member

    but it should work on opensuse?
     
    timmy1991, Jul 28, 2009
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  16. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    yes
     
    Loonylion, Jul 28, 2009
    #76
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