Why did u switch to linux?

they is compiz , beryl, Emerlad , and afew more that i cannot recall, but compiz from what i know is the most stable one , btw if u use ATI graphic card u mite run into probelms installing compize and others, linux friend is Nvidiea , but u can manage with ATI too but it is going to be harder.

I just checked out the video of Compiz, that just looks too awesome. I accidently shut down the tab that one was on or I would have put a link in here. They have an 11 minute demo of Compiz open xgl

Ohhhh that could be tough. My new laptop is ATI graphics driven. Hmm

You are gona do your own distro !! that is great , what are u gona call it ? what are the features are gona be like ? make sure u let me know when u release it . Is it hard to make your own distro ?

I agree, There are a lot of us that would be interested in your distro. BG doesn't get it, when you copy someone else it is suppose to inspire you to take what you've found and improve on it. I have been given the very distinct impression that the linux community lives with that standard in mind.

oh yea i would agree on that, they take ideas from other OSs and gradually improve they dun go fast they make sure the stability of the system is never jeapordized, but at the end u can see most linux systems advance togethere sometimes it is hard to say which one is better than the others, too many similar features among all of them.

thank you very much. I did the test and the result was mandriva, kubuntu, ubuntu, freespire, fedora. I think I will still try kubuntu with live cd so I haven't to install it.

There are lots of linux OS out there, Kubuntu is a good choice i use it and i like it very much. But there are many Linux os for different ppl with different needs and personality ,so u got to choose the best one that suites your need there is this test that u can take online which would recommand which os u should use , visit http://www.zegeniestudios.net/ldc/index.php?firsttime=true

yea totaly agree, crazy old windows. i wonder with all the money that they earn how come they cann't come up with anything better. visit my blog at lifemaximum.blogspot.com and look for the article called " why i hate windows?" it is an article about why windows sux .

The style of Vista being distributed was an original concept of Linux way of distribution. Vista launches several packages e.g. Vista Lite, Vista Full (or whatever), don't know exactly the list of them, but they pre-compile different distros like Linux are doing several year ago. How odd isn't. M$ is really benefiting from Open Source community.

i c, quite interesting , never knew.

Vista copy linux ? in what way? I didn know that/

I have to agree with you on that, there are so many distributions of Linux that I have not heard of a great deal of them.

Xandros wow never heard of it before, it is like there are unlimited versions of linux out there. thanks for your input.

Thanks, react OS , never heard of it before better check it out , interesting ,

@lifemaximum Be aware that ReactOS is still in alpha stage, it is not "yet" suitable for everyday use, I constantly checking their site for further development, man, I can't wait for release 0.3.1 release and see how good it was from 0.3.0, though it is still alpha. Better yet, just visit the site constantly and wait for their beta release. Good luck. btw, I'm also a member of their forum, same handle. ^^

thanks for the heads up.

it is not necessary to creat partitions if u already have 2 u should be fine without formating u can install linux ,however if u want to resize your partition or create new ones what i understand is u have no choice but to format your system.Try to get 20 GB for Linux that would be nice if u can that would be ideal but less will do too , and the rest for windows, keep in mind windows and windows applications take too much space so u will need to give the biggest slice of the harddisk to windows, if i were u i would make a back up of my data , and format the whole thing ,install linux and than windows,by the way it would be good for u if u become part of linuxboard.com it is general linux forum,

Glad to hear that u are making progress. However i would agree that Gentoo is not the easiest around , i personally never used it but i have heard of it not being as easy as others to use, i would personally recommand that u use Ubuntu 6.10 or if u want the stable relase 6.06 , it is best for beginers,and forum support is the best that i have seen ,and downloading and setting up program are very easy.Or if u want a good looking system try Kubuntu it is ubuntu with KDE looks. read up on that before u go to gentoo U should be able to run compiz on almost all versions of linux, but in case it doesn't support your distro no worries, u can always get the source code and compile it yourself on the comp and it would work. Source Code is the way to many softwares in linux eventhough it say it doesn't support your version of os. Anyway the problem that u mite have with Compiz will be from your graphic card , in order to install compiz u first need to install the graphic card driver to enable the 3D actions. And ATI doesn't quite support linux,anyway no worries there many ppl with ATI cards managed to get Compiz working,there are many howtos, and one more thing that will be nice to know for u is a program that some distro of linux are using and it is called automatix, it is a very nice handy soft which helps u set up your system by installing the esssential visit the http://www.getautomatix.com/, to see if they support your OS of choice. dun get me wrong , Gentoo is a very good linux distro ,but it is like advance level, u could probably manage to learn Gentoo by helps from forums,I heard someone's story on a ubuntuforum that he started with Gentoo but again for your children. i strongly recommand that u use ubuntu or Kubuntu. Kubuntu looks good, but u can manage Gentoo u seem like a computer guy.

Hey LifeM, I am making progress. I did a search for linux drivers for my laptop make & model number, and came up with a forum, someone asking the same question I needed an answer for, Has anyone installed linux on this model and which Distro works best. The answer is good news and bad news. From what I heard, the people that have installed this one version for amd64, just about everything works, the down side is, the version of Linux I guess is somewhat complicated of a version to install. It is Gentoo amd64. Before I start downloading everything, I'm reading the installation manuals to get ideas, but I'm still making forward progress. I figure extra time now will actually save more time later. I don't know if Compiz is compatible with all versions of Linux, but I'm hoping, because the video they have of that program is too Sweeeet!

and it is faster, i am running Ubuntu on Pentium II and it runs okie.and it doesn't need super good hardware old ones will do.

The Difference? About $250...

everybody cant access it.. It is more secure than windows..

oh there are many , for the list of them u can visit , distrowatch.com or if it is not the correct link try searching for distro watch and u get the complete lis , i personaly use Kubuntu, i have used Freespire, Ubuntu , and Red hat, rite now i am using Kubuntu pretty happy with it.