Has anyone tried other open Operating Systems?

fukawi2 · 2009-08-05 02:43:56

sand_man wrote:

LVM can do that with any filesystem no?

Yep, but Gnome and KDE are both DE's no

Plus, it's kinda apples and oranges since LVM isn't actually a File System. ZFS does everything LVM can do, and more such as RAID, at a file system level.

sand_man · 2009-08-05 03:27:12

Ok, clearly I know almost nothing about ZFS or LVM. Maybe I should go do some reading

edit:

done some reading on wikipedia

ZFS is a 128-bit file system, so it can address 18 billion billion (1.84 × 1019) times more data than current 64-bit systems. The limitations of ZFS are designed to be so large that they would never be encountered, given the known limits of physics (and the number of atoms in the earth's crust to build such a storage device).

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jelly · 2009-08-05 08:20:00

NixOs is cool, but i tend not to install any other OS because i just love arch, taco's and the rest. I know how linux works and i am actually too lazy to go and read the BSD docs. And i know that everything i want is in archlinux.

Confuseling · 2009-08-06 01:16:00

Has anyone actually run it yet? I've only read about it, and it sounds like a bit of bear to install...

http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/reviews/6654/1/

...but then they said the same about Arch, and I think these things are often exaggerated (especially if you've got a second system, so can read about what you're doing as you do it). As they point out in that article, it's going to munch through hard disk space, but the idea behind it is absolutely fascinating.

(hope this isn't considered too far off topic - it is linux, but only in a vague "It does what pardon?" sense )

jowilkin · 2009-08-06 05:57:13

I run Open Solaris on my file server because I wanted to try out ZFS. Package manager is a pain as was mentioned. Building programs from source I almost always had errors and had to find patches since the source was written for/on Linux usually. The OS is pretty memory hungry, so linux is probably better on older systems.

I wouldn't really use it for a desktop, it works fine as a server for me though.

Meskarune · 2009-08-15 05:40:24

NixOS sounds really interesting. I can see how it could use a ton of hard drive space saving configurations. But hard drive space is so cheap now anyways... I'd mostly just like to check out the file system. There was a linux distro I used a long time ago with a weird file system format, can't remember the name though...

[edit] it was Gobolinux!

Hide · 2009-08-15 13:24:18

I tried Syllable and Haiku about a year ago, maybe less. The former was still too young (too few apps, video driver problems, etc). On the other hand, the latter was quite promising. Occasional crash here and there, lack of drivers at the time, but the overall impression was extremely positive, in terms of speed, usability and responsiveness. I may even install Haiku next to Arch when it's stable, who knows. I'm paying close attention to it and looking forward to every RSS entry I get from their site.

Anonymo · 2009-08-15 14:05:51

I'm going to try FreeBSD once it reaches 8. They are finally going to have a 64-bit nvidia driver.

leo2501 · 2009-08-15 14:28:53

anyone tried android?

jdhore · 2009-08-15 17:52:23

leo2501 wrote:

anyone tried android?

I have (I have a T-Mobile G1/HTC Dream Android phone). Simply put, it's the best mobile phone OS i've ever used hands-down (and i've used Symbian, BlackBerry, PalmOS, Windows Mobile, iPhone and i'm sure i'm missing a few).

@Meskarune - What GoboLinux does is good...In theory...Like so many things. The problem is it uses a package manager similar to Gentoo's Portage (but worse since it doesn't have USE flags) which isn't great anyway and they screw up many things...One time i tried to install GoboLinux using the installer on their LiveCD...and it forgot to install GRUB. So as i sorta mentioned, good in theory, absolute rubbish in practice.

havok · 2009-08-16 09:37:10

my experiece is that gobolinux is, like arch, more about cleanlyness and correctness then 'working in practice'.
It is similar to portage, but containing ony variables and no scripting, centralizing the complicated parts. for example an autoconf recipie is 2 lines.
Gobolinux has alot of advantages, the biggest i think is that you can use unix tools to manipulate software and $path, and making a system snapshot is as easy as cp /system/links ($path) and cp /system/settings

it wouldnt be to hard to port their fhs to arch.. if youre interested, msg me

And it does have use-flags.

Arch Linux

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