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View Poll Results: What do you linux for ?
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DEFAULT OS
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JUST FOR LEARNING
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MUSIC & VIDEO
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JUST TO TRY
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22.73% |
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OTHER (Specify)
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09-08-2005, 08:17 AM
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Wise Old Owl
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Chennai
Posts: 1,659
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What do you linux for ?
I use it just for learning it and mutimedia uses
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09-08-2005, 10:32 AM
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FooBar Guy
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: GNUmbai
Posts: 1,245
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It is the only OS i have installed at my home and office
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09-08-2005, 11:24 AM
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Microsoft MVP
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: AskVG.com
Posts: 5,173
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I installed Linux only for fun.
I don't use it very much but wanted to hv it on my comp.
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09-08-2005, 12:37 PM
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In The Zone
Join Date: May 2004
Location: ** Hosur ** Operating System:GNU
Posts: 451
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I use it for EVERYTHING
DEFAULTOS+LEARNING+ENTERTAINMENT+SURFING+CD WRITING+DEVELOPMENT+...........
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09-08-2005, 04:56 PM
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Alpha Geek
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 780
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I use it for everything I do. I dual boot windows 98 se for the odd application and for my parents use.
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Software - Slackware Linux 10.1; Archlinux 0.7; Windows 98 SE
Humanware - GS/CS C++ L+++ w b+++ DI+ D+ e
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09-08-2005, 05:57 PM
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Broken In
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Bangalore
Posts: 102
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Well nice question vignesh.
I use it as default OS in my older comp (basically to learn it)
In the other i use it for internet/music et al.
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09-08-2005, 06:02 PM
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Wise Old Owl
Join Date: Nov 2004
Location: Hyderabad
Posts: 1,096
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GNU/Linux has been my only OS for last 5 years
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09-08-2005, 06:16 PM
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Commander in Chief
Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 6,658
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y 2 posts ?
I use it for WRACKING MY BRAINS... 
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09-08-2005, 06:35 PM
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Wise Old Owl
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Chennai
Posts: 1,659
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Originally Posted by QwertyManiac
y 2 posts ?
I use it for WRACKING MY BRAINS... |
What 2 posts ?
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09-08-2005, 06:37 PM
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Commander in Chief
Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 6,658
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that was 2 desertwind pal not u, srry if it got u pal...
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09-08-2005, 06:48 PM
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FooBar Guy
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: GNUmbai
Posts: 1,245
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there were two posts posted by desert by mistake... i removed one of them
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09-08-2005, 09:02 PM
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Right Off the Assembly Line
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Mumbai
Posts: 16
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I used default at home (there is Winow$ too  ) and Default and only OS at Office (90% PCs at office too!)
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10-08-2005, 03:10 PM
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Apprentice
Join Date: Aug 2004
Location: YOU CAN'T SEE ME
Posts: 68
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I have installed linux for learning. It is the OS of the future.
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10-08-2005, 06:27 PM
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Wise Old Owl
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Chennai
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Originally Posted by QwertyManiac
that was 2 desertwind pal not u, srry if it got u pal...
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Thats Fine mate.....
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10-08-2005, 10:40 PM
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Apprentice
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: Pluto!!!
Posts: 68
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Programming, Music,etc
Most interested in tweaking Linux.
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11-08-2005, 01:33 AM
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Coming back to life ..
Join Date: Nov 2003
Location: A bit closer to heaven
Posts: 1,997
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Hmm.. I love learning new things .. and thats how I started Linux ..
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11-08-2005, 06:27 PM
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String Phreak
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: In ur Evil Mind!
Posts: 2,457
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Linux for office work,programming, development,
free flow surfing(no virus,trojans therefore no antivirus,antispyware which eats a lotta resources makin system slow)!
and windows for playing games, vb,vc++,asp etc!
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14-08-2005, 09:10 AM
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In The Zone
Join Date: May 2005
Location: If I had a webcam u could have seen me, before your eyes.
Posts: 459
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can anyone tell me the need to switch to linux by a windows user except for learning a few new things... I have suse linux the one that came with digit.... is it better than win 98  
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14-08-2005, 12:06 PM
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Alpha Geek
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 780
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If trying and learning new things is not your cup of tea, you should use whichever operating system you are comfortable with, as long as it works for you 
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Hardware - Celeron 266 MHz, 128MB RAM, Intel i740 8MB RAM
Software - Slackware Linux 10.1; Archlinux 0.7; Windows 98 SE
Humanware - GS/CS C++ L+++ w b+++ DI+ D+ e
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14-08-2005, 07:37 PM
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Broken In
Join Date: Jul 2005
Posts: 172
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Originally Posted by vandit
can anyone tell me the need to switch to linux by a windows user except for learning a few new things... I have suse linux the one that came with digit.... is it better than win 98
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No one can tell you that. Believe me...
Using any software should be guided by your own needs and not by what someone told u. I can give you hundreds of reasons from thousands of webpages talking about just this one question..."why linux is better" but then another windows lover will come in and flame me by giving counter responses to everything i said. this is just a never ending debate.
...but i can tell you which i switched to Linux. i switched cos i was tired of defragmenting, running AV scans, anti spywares, cleaning my cookies, getting BSODs that didn't mean anything, apps crashing without giving me any errors. i m not saying that crashes and BSODs were frequent but they added oil to fire. Linux took me time to learn but now it is as stable as rock.
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15-08-2005, 08:51 AM
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Wise Old Owl
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Chennai
Posts: 1,659
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@ vandit its up to you to decide which suits your needs the best.
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20-08-2005, 11:35 AM
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In The Zone
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: South Pune
Posts: 275
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to learn the concept of open source practically.
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20-08-2005, 04:54 PM
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Broken In
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: Gurgaon
Posts: 150
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i was learning UNIX. And nowadays unix support comes on linux only.So i installed linux FC4.To my surprise it now supports my sound card.Earlier i treid mandrake,PCQlinux 2004,knoppix none of which supported my sound card.But now my pc has come alive with multimedia and i m thinking to switch over to linux.
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20-08-2005, 06:30 PM
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Wise Old Owl
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Chennai
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Open source software exists for windows too....
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21-08-2005, 02:35 PM
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Alpha Geek
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Chennai , India
Posts: 693
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I Love OSS Concept so I Installed Linux Recently and i bought a book named Mastering Red Hat Linux 9 and it is very nice 
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21-08-2005, 03:35 PM
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Wise Old Owl
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Chennai
Posts: 1,659
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Opensource is a huge community.I am glad to see you are starting to like it.
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22-08-2005, 10:42 PM
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Who stole my Alpaca!
Join Date: Jan 2005
Location: Kerala
Posts: 2,020
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Well lets see. I think I use Mandrake 10.1 for everything other than printing . Anyone have any ideas how to get the driver for a cannon pixma ip 1000 to work under mandrake 10.1 ?
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22-08-2005, 11:15 PM
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In The Zone
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Chennai
Posts: 470
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I'm starting to try various Linux.
But I still like Windows XP
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01-09-2005, 01:49 AM
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In The Zone
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: South Pune
Posts: 275
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But I still like Windows XP
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when it come to looks,its awesome. compare mandrake with longhotn beta 
a wonderful result set
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01-09-2005, 07:38 PM
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Wise Old Owl
Join Date: Jul 2004
Location: Chennai
Posts: 1,659
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Ya its good in looks.
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