If you couldn't use Linux, what would your second choice OS be?

apache363 · 05-03-2004, 04:43 PM

Big Al · 05-03-2004, 04:51 PM

My second choice would be FreeBSD.

SciYro · 05-03-2004, 05:26 PM

i think id pick hurd, after all, it will still use the gnu system so ill already know the basic tools

, if not hurd then some other kernel, as long as i can still pick which programs i want/don't want to have

Mannyakatheman · 05-03-2004, 06:09 PM

i would use ms 98 or xp

vectordrake · 05-03-2004, 06:14 PM

FreeBSD then NetBSD then Open BeOS. If there had to be a choice after that, I'd have to buy Windows 2000, I guess.

witeshark · 05-03-2004, 06:21 PM

After Mac I'd go with a BSD

jaz · 05-03-2004, 07:08 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by vectordrake
FreeBSD then NetBSD then Open BeOS. If there had to be a choice after that, I'd have to buy Windows 2000, I guess.

Buy Windows2000?

apache363 · 05-03-2004, 07:15 PM

There are so many different free (and paid too) and SUPERIOR OSes out there to Win32, why would you bother?

SciYro · 05-03-2004, 07:24 PM

/me wonders the same

maybe they become masochists?

jaz · 05-03-2004, 07:27 PM

I responding to someone's post who said ...I may buy Windows 2000. If I cant get anything M$ for free I am not buying it!!

jaz · 05-03-2004, 07:34 PM

BTW, I'd use either XP Pro or a MAC for entertainment purposes and FreeBSD for work, learning etc

mikshaw · 05-03-2004, 07:37 PM

The Macintosh and Windows choices are a bit too vague IMO. I hated MacOS prior to OS X, and Windows sucked prior to Win2000 (NT4 was decent, sorta). Also, if I hadn't learned about Linux I may have known about nothing else other than Unix, which I probably wouldn't use while Win2000 and OSX were available.
I'd say I'd most likely be using Win2000.

If Linux were just now suddenly unavailable somehow, I'd probably go with a BSD.

pepsi · 05-03-2004, 08:20 PM

win xp for free caugh caugh kazaa lite

apache363 · 05-03-2004, 08:43 PM

In response to what milkshaw said:
Originally posted by milkshaw:

Quote:

The Macintosh and Windows choices are too vague IMO.

In retrospect, I understand what you're saying. For clarification purposes, I mean the latest versions of the poll choice OSes.

mbegovic · 05-03-2004, 09:17 PM

I would probably use FreeBSD. I like Macintosh, but I also like to play with x86 hardware - this would be the deciding factor.