What OS do you use?

[joshcombs]

I am trying to get a feel for the people who browse this forums.

What operating system do you use?
Tell us what you use and why you use it. Thanks


Josh

[joshcombs]

I use Microsoft XP Home and pro

but I am looking to making the linux switch But not to Redhat I have done that before I am thinking either Slack or FreeBSD or Gentoo

[Silverbug]

Well i use win2k pro and server. imo xp is still too friendly and tries to do stuff for you. And my linux box is running gentoo, which im using to teach myself linux

Gentoo is good. I think its my little message or something. Ahh.. Its my Biography

[joshcombs]

is it easy to install?

Thats the fun part - Its easy if you follow the guide. It kinda serves as a great introduction to Unix. Lets you partition the drives and all.. There are 3 levles of install you can do. I like Stage1 build it all up from scratch.

I use Win 2K for the bulk of my work, but have Linux (RedHat) loaded on my PC as well. My laptop is a Mac Powerbook with Os X (Jaguar).
I'm prepared for anything...

[bigdave]

Hmmm I'll start with what I have here then move on to what's at home in NY:

Desktop: Windows XP Pro
Dell PowerEdge: Gentoo
IBM ThinkPad: Windows XP Pro
TiVo: Linux
Compaq: Windows XP Pro

Sill in NY:

Old Sparc Station: Solaris 6
IBM RS/6000: AIX 4.1

and my parents computers which are technically mine too, I had an iMac too but sold that on eBay, still trying to get Brad to get me one for the office.

[Carly]

With this wacky schedule, I *need* a tivo.

Home: Windows XP Pro & 2000 Pro
Work: Windows 2003

[nelsonke]

Office in house, about 1/2 are Win2K pro and 1/2 are XP, one of which is XP home.

[joshcombs]

intresting... I think I will try install Slack ware again

[mfennell]

oh boy this will be a list, don't laugh

Home:
Gentoo on one
FreeBSD
Windows 2003 server
windows 2000 server
Laptop - Windows XP and Fedora 9 (recently had redhat on it)

Work:
4 Alpha 's with NT4 Server
More 2000 servers and 2003 servers
Couple of Sparc stations running various versions of Solaris
laptop with XP
and a desktop with 2000 pro
Redhat 8 for a personal mail server
redhat 9 for a pdc (haha)
ohh yeah..

I have various versions of Novell running on vmware

[Brangwyn]

oh yeah, does Knoppix count ? If anyones a little scared of Linux but would like to try it out, make sure you give knoppix a crack, its a CD bootable linux distro so you don't need to worry about paritioning windows boxes or anything just to try linux.

http://www.knoppix.org/

[zennix]

Win2K Pro and Debian for the most part. My favorite OS of all time was BeOS and yes I cried when they stopped development. Is this too sad to post? Eh whatever.

[nhdonny]

Desktops and My Tosh Notebook XP Pro

Apple //e Apple DOS
C64 I can't remember but the tape drive works.