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entwisi · 28-12-2004, 09:40

Personally I use Gentoo Linux. There are other flavours of Linux as well, SuSE, Mandrake, Debian, Slackware, Fedora.

It is a very secure OS. No viruses, Trojans etc don't work. Lots of choice of software of which 99% is free to use(including the OS itself). If you are interested I can give you more info. One beauty of it is that it will set itself up to 'dual boot' so you have the choice of Linux or Windows. I have a lot of friends who use Linux for all their Internet usage(email, Browsing, P2P) and Office work(OpenOffice) only booting into Windows to play the odd game that isn't released for Linux(Although even this is getting a lot better, Doom3 and HL2 both have Linux installers, as do Doom 2 and Unreal.

Like I said, if you want more info let me know.

Ian

28-12-2004, 09:40	#5
entwisi God Member Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Up Bash Posts: 7,827 Blog Entries: 3 Liked: 44 times Rep Power: 4390	Re: Win Me Sos Personally I use Gentoo Linux. There are other flavours of Linux as well, SuSE, Mandrake, Debian, Slackware, Fedora. It is a very secure OS. No viruses, Trojans etc don't work. Lots of choice of software of which 99% is free to use(including the OS itself). If you are interested I can give you more info. One beauty of it is that it will set itself up to 'dual boot' so you have the choice of Linux or Windows. I have a lot of friends who use Linux for all their Internet usage(email, Browsing, P2P) and Office work(OpenOffice) only booting into Windows to play the odd game that isn't released for Linux(Although even this is getting a lot better, Doom3 and HL2 both have Linux installers, as do Doom 2 and Unreal. Like I said, if you want more info let me know. Ian