Operating Systems

hendersonb

Just curious as to which operating systems people are using on here, seems to be mainly XP problems.

I run Linux in the house and on the laptop, various versions of Linux, Windows, Mac OS, OpenBSD etc at work.

wolfman

Xp on my machine at work, although I have to deal with Windows 2000/2003 server, and various flavours of Linux when dealing with web/file servers.

At home I've got a dual boot but primarily use Windows a) for development (I do a lot of Visual Studio 2005 work), b) games, c) I'm more familiar with it and d) it may have many faults but Windows still has more gui screens which make setting up certain things a lot easier than using a terminal window.

Actually I'm gonna get Fedora Core 5, which I think was released just the other week. Should hopefully be the next step. I'm a big fan of the Anaconda installer, and I think it should have something similar to Ubuntu's synaptic package management. Hopefully wireless support/ease of setup will be improved too.

Think I'll download it at work now, as speeds are about 10x what I get at home

Little_John

Windows 2000 on my main PC and xp pro on my laptop.

I did play with Linux a few years ago but it was just to see what all the fuss was about and it wasnt bad, considering ALL my customers use a windows based system so I stuck with it for support reasons the software companies only produce software for them that runs on windows. Windows 2000 is stable enugh for me

newfoundglory

I'm a unix developer, so i have xp and kubuntu on my laptop. I also own a mac mini, which runs os 10.4 and freebsd 6 for PPC. Our house also has a freebsd 6 fileserver and firewall...

GreenNotM

for some reason.. I have XP, NT4 (workstation and server) , server 2000/3, linux(es) and Novell flavours and if I want to swap a disk W98SE, but that it just at home on 2 pc's.

irnbru_2

Dual-boot:

GNU/Linux Fedora Core 4 - with 5 being burned as I post.
Win XP Home

Redhat 9 on local web server.

Surely you want a poll instead of a thread?

elvis_bloggs

Gas powered Mac.

wolfman

irnbru wrote:

with 5 being burned as I post.

Me too! Can't wait.
Do you know what the discs are? Can't find anything about them. I would download the dvd but can't be bothered to wait. I thought they were going to go for a Ubuntu approach (1 install cd) and all the others contain extras, so I'm not sure how many of the 5 discs I need just to do an install.

Rex_Mundi

All at home.........

W98SE (old faithful desktop)
W98SE (laptop)
W2000 Pro (networked games machine)
W XP Pro 64bit (new dual core toy)

I'm trying to decide which Linux to start a trial with.

skintel

Win98SE (Old PC)
Win 2000 Server Edition on (Newish PC)
XP Pro (New Lappy)

scheming_gypsy

Work laptop = XP Pro in the good old windows classic layout
Home laptop = XP Home in the good old windows classic layout.


I spend all day fannying about with Win98 / NT4 / 2000 / 2000 server / 2003 Server and diskless workstations so i stick with XP and 1 computer when i get home.