Ubuntu Vs. XP... - Page 2

ilovemyhonda · 12-21-2007, 09:01 PM

Any word on when the release will be? I'm not trying to pressure or anything, just curious.

LinuxICE sure sounds nice I read a little bit about it.

Gladier · 12-22-2007, 07:20 AM

ill finish this with one comment about windows and linux:

they both have their ups and downs, in the end of the day if your willing to give linux a go and spend a little bit of time tinkering and asking for help then linux will give you what you want. windows people already know and understand so seting up is a cinch - however it is a worse layout from the ground up and can require more hw than linux.

anyone who wants to discuss/battle this then visit me on irc://irc.freenode.net/#linuxice
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anyways

nghost 2.0 is in the making and will probably be ready to go late feb early march (the other guys on the dev team dont know about this date yet

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this should get us up to scratch feature wise with RR, and around august next year we should have nghost 3.0 up and going which will look much nicer (kev you can blast me for the deadlines in the chan

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in regards to linuxice - its basically a cutdown ubuntu (soon to be changed to debian) distro with the nghost repositories. i'm going to be pushing to have this done by the end of january (and yes kev i will help)

Eubey · 12-22-2007, 10:57 PM

Hopefully we can keep with gladier's new deadlines. We spent like 6 months on .95

sergeifranco · 12-24-2007, 10:57 PM

What you guys are forgetting is that linux is free. Maybe for some retail price for xp is peanuts, but for me, I would rather put this money towards better speakers

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Also I am getting 10 second boots with Linux from a 4GB CF card, I also can set-up linux in a way so it will hammer less with writes on the card to prolong the life, while with windows it is impossible to do that. I think that people went with windows because of pirated copies freely available on the net. If every one would pay retail, more people would consider using linux. Well anyway thumbs up for nghost team, if they could beat Roadrunner (which I have tried on my friends windows machine) that it would be greatest thing happening for Linux in carpc field.

ilovemyhonda · 12-25-2007, 12:00 AM

Yeah. I just put ubuntu on my main use laptop and I am loving it so far (20 minutes) so I'm leaning towards it for my car pc. I'm looking forward to nghost. Thanks guys.

ilovemyhonda · 12-25-2007, 12:24 AM

Yeah. I just put ubuntu on my main use laptop and I am loving it so far (20 minutes) so I'm leaning towards it for my car pc. I'm looking forward to nghost. Thanks guys.

MatrixPC · 12-27-2007, 11:32 PM

I use XP at work, carPC and home. I also have 3 different flavor of Linux (Fedora, Ubuntu, PCLinuxOS) on my other home PC via swap drive. I like them all. I don't use PC a lot at home but if I do, I just use either of the Linux. So far PCLinuxOS is my pick because it support all 3 usb wifi card I have while the other 2 flavor didn't support out of the box.
Back in the day, I used to spend hrs on the net searching for how to enable the US Robotic modem (winmodem and real-modem) to work with Redhat. Now I don't have that much time to dig the web for info especially, most search result from search engine came up with nothing related to what you want to look other than p0rn and how to make your d1ck grow bigger.
Anyway, with Linux, support seem to be better and sometime you have to spend more time to read and search to know what the hell the answer giving you really mean if you are new to the game. Also, linux folks are more willing to help compare to windows folks.
Now to the point is I won't use linux for carPC simply because there is more work involve to get it to work compare to just use XP as of now. Thing will change in the future, who knows.