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What is your favorite OS?

Discussion in 'Computers & Modding' started by ace1o1, Oct 14, 2009.

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  1. yoshi2889

    yoshi2889 Well-Known Member

    Cool, but mine is running under a special program, it is no big server... Just one that lets you know when the games come out and what you need if you have a FC (FlashCard)
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    Like RomUlation, that one is BIG! I get lost if i am on the Select Board screen...
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    It goes mostly via the mail...
     
    yoshi2889, Oct 31, 2009
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  2. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    that is not a server, it is a feed reader or something.
     
    Loonylion, Oct 31, 2009
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  3. yoshi2889

    yoshi2889 Well-Known Member

    Feeds i have enough... My mail is full of them... I don't send the mail, the server program does... The server is NOT on my PC where i go on internet with, i have one Server PC and one Normal PC.
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    It is upgraded today, i see... Version 2.65... The server continually checks if there are new mails of requests, and gives me a notification... Ah, server update is done, now i can install new features...
     
    yoshi2889, Oct 31, 2009
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  4. mikeac

    mikeac Well-Known Member

    WINDOWS 7 x64 FTW!
    I used the RC... AND I still have the ISO on my DVD-R.
    NO MORE VISTA!
    F-r-e-e that spells free, free Windows 7 for me bay-bee!
    HP says they are shipping it soon, YAY!

    BTW... How good is Ubuntu, Linux, and Solaris?
    Never tried them, and I know Ubuntu/Linux is free, Solaris I just heard them...

    And yoshi... That "Server" you are talking about is RSS, I think. You click that Orange radio wave icon and it asks you if you wanna subscribe to the site.
     
    mikeac, Oct 31, 2009
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  5. yoshi2889

    yoshi2889 Well-Known Member

    @mikeac: Nope, guess... IT IS A SERVER!
     
    yoshi2889, Oct 31, 2009
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  6. mikeac

    mikeac Well-Known Member

    RSS IS A TYPE OF SERVER!
    And so is MySQL!
    And so is .NET!
    A lot of things are servers!

    Like the server that hosts RomUlations roms!
    Or the one that holds your email like cox.net!
     
    mikeac, Oct 31, 2009
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  7. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    It isn't.

    ubuntu is a crap form of linux, and solaris is a linux distribution owned by sun microsystems. Theres better distributions out there, such as SuSe or mandriva (or fedora).

    These are not servers. RSS is a method of using xml to provide uptodate information, .net is a programming framework. MySQL is a database server application.
     
    Loonylion, Oct 31, 2009
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  8. mikeac

    mikeac Well-Known Member

    can we stop talking about servers and get back to our fave OS?!
     
    mikeac, Oct 31, 2009
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  9. Sbf93

    Sbf93 Well-Known Member

    It would be Win XP Pro, but the 64bit version sucks (not drivers for all devices, none 100% german version etc)
    Because of the fact i want a 64bit os, its win 7 ultimate.
    Mac and linux isnt something for my first partition.
     
    Sbf93, Oct 31, 2009
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  10. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    XP pro x64 was sort of an afterthought and was never seriously supported. Server 2003 x64 was the first properly supported 64bit windows (ignoring itanium versions of windows 2000).
     
    Loonylion, Oct 31, 2009
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  11. yoshi2889

    yoshi2889 Well-Known Member

    Sure... I wanted to say that!

    Anyway, I will try a Mac one time, I think it is good for me.. If a computer has over 100 GB, it is good for me...
     
    yoshi2889, Oct 31, 2009
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  12. mikeac

    mikeac Well-Known Member

    My computer don't even have to be above 50GB... Just my dad's work requires a lot of memory for documents.
    And right now my folder is cluttered with crap...

    And I forgot to add... W7 Pro & Ultimate can emulate Windows XP.
    So, you can use XP with 64 bit capability and lots of RAM.
    And it allows more compatibility for drivers.
     
    mikeac, Oct 31, 2009
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  13. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    This is a very good point; microsoft do not make it widely known that windows 7 home cannot do this. Don't buy home if you want XP compatibility.
     
    Loonylion, Oct 31, 2009
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  14. mikeac

    mikeac Well-Known Member

    Someone will eventually crack it for Home Premium.
     
    mikeac, Oct 31, 2009
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  15. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    They will not, the feature is not present.
     
    Loonylion, Oct 31, 2009
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  16. damanali

    damanali Well-Known Member

    ok, now i'm not supposed to asked this but i will. the xp compatibility means all gadgets, programs that run in xp will ultimately be compatible with windows 7 ultimate, right? no updating of drivers and such, like it will automatically do it for itself?
     
    damanali, Nov 1, 2009
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  17. Vainone

    Vainone Well-Known Member

    Arch Linux ftw
     
    Vainone, Nov 1, 2009
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  18. ace1o1

    ace1o1 Well-Known Member

    i used to use that.....but i had 4 OS's on my computer and it was taking up too much of my hdd, so i deleted it......
    i only have a 30 gb hdd......:(
     
    ace1o1, Nov 1, 2009
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  19. Loonylion

    Loonylion Administrator Staff Member

    you will need different drivers, windows 7 uses the vista driver architecture which is fundamentally different to the XP driver architecture. Having said that, windows 7 is very good at finding the right drivers by itself (using windows update).
     
    Loonylion, Nov 1, 2009
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  20. timmy1991

    timmy1991 Well-Known Member

    wait wait wait.... I already made a thread about this...

    https://www.romulation.org/forum/index.php?topic=18585.0
     
    timmy1991, Nov 1, 2009
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