Operating systems

Question Posted Friday June 27 2008, 10:53 pm

So i was wondering what operating systems (other than windows and anything with mac) there are for home based computers

Can you give me a little information about some of them.

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theymos answered Saturday June 28 2008, 12:36 am:
Linux is the main alternative to Mac and Windows for home computers.

Linux is broken into distributions. Each distribution is different than others, to varying degrees. Here are distributions that a novice would be able to use:
-Debian
-Ubuntu
-Fedora
-Mandriva
-SUSE
-Gentoo

Ubuntu is most commonly recommended, but I find its documentation to be lacking.

Here's Wikipedia's Comparison of operating systems:
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ChevyIINova answered Friday June 27 2008, 11:54 pm:
There's always Ubuntu.
It's a free OS. It's Linux based and it does have a GUI. You can download it, burn it to a CD or order a CD, which is free too, even the shipping.
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