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Hi all,

I have a little problem, I can't choose which OS I'll be using for my pc. Do you have any good experiences with any OS for personal use?

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Intel P4 2 Ghz.
128 MB. Ram
2 Gb. Root drive
20 Gb. logical drive
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If that personal use includes PC gaming, then Windows XP is really the only sensible choice. There ar some older games which won't function with it, but most can be made to run one way or another. The stability of Windows XP exceeds that of any other version.

If that personal use involves only applications use, then Windows XP, Windows 2000 or a Linux distribution are all viable options, depending on the applications you wish to use, and your prior experience with them.


Windows 98 is no longer a truly 'desirable' OS to use for any purpose.
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Catweazle is definitely correct, but you also need to state your specific needs, and the things you do on the computer that would determine which OS to use.
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I have a little problem, I can't choose which OS I'll be using for my pc. Do you have any good experiences with any OS for personal use?

128 MB Ram
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You would be able to get away with a linux system. You'd be able to use a GUI (graphical environment) but most likely not KDE or Gnome but rather just a lightweight window manager.
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Do what, looking for unsecure systems?
(if you want to buy some software off Ebay I can provide links to secure(Trial)OS's and the likes.)

AROS
http://www.aros.org/download.php

Need a GUI for DOS?
http://sealsystem.sourceforge.net/
Free Unix
http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/

BSD
http://www.bsd.org/
http://www.freebsd.org/
http://www.openbsd.org/
http://www.netbsd.org/
http://www.daemonnews.org/

Ripped
http://www.seasip.demon.co.uk/Cpm/software/index.html
http://developer.apple.com/darwin/
http://www.kc85.de/download.html
http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/hurd-cd
http://erika.sssup.it/download.shtml
http://sources.redhat.com/ecos/getstart.html
http://elks.sourceforge.net/download/
http://os.inf.tu-dresden.de/fiasco/download.html
http://www.eros-os.org/project/build.html
ftp://freevms.nvg.org/pub/vms/freevms/
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.IS...ok/mirrors.html
http://www.freedos.org/freedos/files
http://www.menuetos.org/download.htm
http://www.cs.vu.nl/pub/minix/
http://www.netbsd.org/Releases/
http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/native/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/crux/
http://www.openbsd.org/ftp.html
http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/download.html
http://www.poweros.de/download.html
http://www.qnx.com/eval/
http://www.reactos.com/index.php?ta...section=reactos
http://wwws.sun.com/software/solaris/binaries/get.html
http://www.v2os.cx/
http://vsta.sourceforge.net/
http://sourceforge.net/projects/winmac
http://yamit.sourceforge.net/download.html
http://meos.sourceforge.net/index2.htm
http://www.menuetos.org/
http://www.oberon.ethz.ch/
http://www.eros-os.org/
http://www.atari.org/
http://www.amiga.org/modules/news/
http://www.beosjournal.org/
http://www.bebits.com/
http://www.openbeos.org/
http://www.yellowtab.com/
http://www.petros-project.com/
http://www.apple.com/macosx/
http://www.software.ibm.com/os/warp/
http://www.neuconcept.com/thepage/
http://www.qnx.com/
http://www.montagar.com/~patj/freevms.htm
http://www.osdev.org/
http://www.osnews.com/
http://tunes.org/Review/OSes.html
http://www.osnews.com/phorum/
http://cio-today.newsfactor.com/
http://www.cs.arizona.edu/people/bridges/oses.html
http://tunes.org/Review/OSes.html

DOS
http://www.phystechsoft.com/en/index.html
http://www.freedos.org/
http://www.rdos.net/rdos/index.htm

http://www.winehq.com/
http://www.litepc.com/
http://www.reactos.com/
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Your really at a loss with so little Storage and Memory, your not going to be able to do much on any os besides dos with that little.
Firefox: no, its not the end all solution, it has its own issues and in time it will be just as insecure as IE, when its hit Firefox 6, if it makes it that far. Oh, and AOL pays for it, incase you didn't know.

Microsoft & Windows: If you hate it so much, move to linux, or bsd, or anything else, stop complaning and move on.
Good starting places: Gentoo Novell SUSE Fedora Core Apple
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Thanks everybody for the responses, especially the links. It's true that I will need more Ram for my computer. It's for gaming and the like and I forgot to say it's for standalone. I'm sorry about that, my mistake.

Windows XP, yes I could use that, but because my computer is relatively weak, I have therefore old games. Could I perhaps make a dual boot system?

Linux, I'll need to learn all the commands before I could use this no prob. I didn't know that Linux had a GUI, oh well I'll see what I can do with it.
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With that spec i would sujest windows 98 SE as you would probably want games/office etc, and an OS that won't use up ALL of your reasources, but seriously with that spec,you need to upgrade. otherwise you will struggle to run anthing modern inc office 2k
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Yes, you can dual boot.

Use FDISK to make a partition of around 3 to 4 Gig, format it FAT32 and load on Windows 98. That should be enough room for your old games.

Boot from a Windows XP CD after you've finished setting up Win 98, create a partition in the remaining unpartitioned space, and install Windows XP to it using NTFS file system for preference. The Windows XP install will create the dual-boot for you in the process, as long as you've got Win 98 installed first.


And add more RAM. 128Mb isn't really even enough for Win98, and 384Mb is a minimum for Windows XP to run well. If your PC has a reasonable display card, then your processor is fine, and you'd really only need RAM and perhaps extra hard drive space.
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