Free O/S

O/S as in OS as in Operating System?

Sure, get your hands on Slackware 9.0 as i recommended in your other thread :-)

*p0ffz*

ya linux, which is alot like windows in certain ways.

All Your Custo Are Belong To ME!

just quit being cheap and buy Windows.

whats wrong with windows... it's free... wait is it ? i don't member buying it except when it came with the computer.. but that was windows 98, now i have 2000 and i don't member playing for it ;)

dessinian ™___________© ²°°³

Er. Yeah, okay everyone. I can see this thread being not silly sounding in 1997 or so.

GEOS for Comodore64. Well, it's like 2 bucks.

Basicly any of the unix based OSes. Probably your best bet. Especialy with WinE. Lets you run all your favorite win apps.

Then there is BEos, basicly a folded OS. But if you look I'm sure there ore places that still offer the free distro.

Last is, Mac OS X. When it came out a friend DLed it officialy from Apple. Some little loop hole in the GNU licence agreement says you have to have it freely available. Not exactly sure if they still have it out there, but can it hurt to look about?


[B]RevHeywood
I take my coffee purple.

Correct me if i'm wrong, but the complete OSX w\ Aqua GIU has never been free. I believe the core operating system, commonly known as Darwin, is. When you buy a boxed Mac OSX you do not really pay for the core OS, but rather the nice GUI and all those nice apps the Apple folks come up with. Darwin is open source and is loosely based on 4.4BSD.

If I'm wrong about this, feel free to tell me I'm dumb.


c72::please refrain from punching me in the face:::

"Some little loop hole in the GNU licence agreement"


Loophole? Opening it up is the whole POINT of GNU.
There is nothing that says you have to GIVE your product away.

nah i was just wondering if there was any free o/s's i could try on my older computer just to play around with.

btw.. i never bought windows in my life... it either came with the computer or i got it from some one else....

im using win xp pro.

how does slackware 9 look stock?

I do not recommend slackware for your first foray into linux. try lycoris, red hat, etc.
Also you might want to try knoppix, it fit's on a cd and will let you boot into full fledged linux distro, complete with KDE3, and you never have to touch your hdd.

c72::please refrain from punching me in the face:::

is mandrake any good for a new linux user?

.: b a k a h a m s 7 e r :.

mandrake is prolly the easiest linux distro from my expierence, theres some ones that look alot like windows but they arent free usually

I can't hardly think of a distro that ISN'T FREE. I can think of several that you can buy with documentation and support, but also download isos for nothing.

Red Hat, fer instance.



c72::please refrain from punching me in the face:::

I believe this is the most newb friendly linux distro there is, imho.

http://www.lycoris.com/

installs easier than windows.



c72::please refrain from punching me in the face:::

buy the box or dl a FREE ISO here.

http://www.lycoris.org/download.php

The satement " theres some ones that look alot like windows but they arent free usually" is completely false, btw.

HEY KURUPT908!!! if you are looking for a free OS to play around with get the BeOS PE5 MAX Edition (250mg) from bebits.com totally free. It can be installed just like if you were installing any windows application, it will be easier to learn than the easiest linux avaible and it will come with all kind of apps (dvd player, burner, mp3 player, image viewer, games, compilers, internet browser, email, FTP manager...) , it can manage windows and DOS files. And if one day you get tired of it you can delete it like uninstalling any app. Finally if you only want the OS stand alone ( basic apps) you can download the BeOS R5 Personal Edition and it only has a size of 50MG!!!!! this is the actual second OS I use in my computer.

YES a Be supporter :) BeOS ROCKS!