What O/S are you using and why?

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Running Home XP SP3 with no problems
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Everyone talks about viruses / spyware / blah blah.

Take a look at where your surfing for one. [censored],I've never had any issues.Couple that with common sense,antispyware programs and virtualization software,I've got no worries either
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I will not upgrade until windows 7 is available,period.
 
Debian, release 5.0 Lenny

Kernel 2.6.26-1-686

KDE 3.5

I am running it because it is what is easiest for my son in law to help with.

In some of my volunteer work, I have to use a laptop with Vista. It doesn't phase the little kids a bit when I tell them they have to wait while I reboot the computer.

We used to use a Polaroid camera, and they had trouble with the 30 seconds while the film developed.
 
I'm running at home on my Dell:

SunOS hawk 5.11 snv_97 i86pc i386 i86pc
That's build 97 of Solaris "Nevada" aka Solaris 11

My Toshiba laptop is running Solaris 10, can't recall which release. I also have XP home on this and the kids computer. The laptop came with XP Pro
 
Dual boot of Vista Ultimate and Sun Solaris 10, 10/08 release with ZFS root.

Why? Because Vista Ultimate and Enterprise editions have a feature called Subsystem for Unix Applications (SUA) that allow use of Unix application on windows. I believe that also explains use of SunOS as well.
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I'm running a whole bunch of O/S on my network.. I have once PC with Windows XP Pro, another with Windows 2K, another one with all the oldies in case I want to test something... It has 3.11, 95A, 95OSR2, 98, 98SE, ME. Also it keeps my old O/S's for me to remember!
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On my work laptop I have Win XP Pro and it's a P-O-S dell that is always acting up because of the choice of corporate anti-virus, web-surfing monitor etc. that they have on it.
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This stuff actually makes me less productive! Needless to say I only use this when I'm traveling and leave it in the car all the time. (Yes in the winter and summer.. Not mine, and I would love it if it died because I hear the newer models our company is shipping out is much better!)

On my new laptop for home use I have Windows Vista Premium.
 
-Kid's PC's have XP, no reason to switch.
-Wife's PC has Vista x64, quad-core PC's deserve something better than XP
-My PC, XP for 1st Partition, Win2008 Server & Ubuntu 8.10
-Work PC's: Vista x64 on two of them with 8GB of RAM, for doing lotsa stuff including VM's
-Laptops: 1 Macbook base model, 1 Dell model with Vista x64 & 32bit.
-Old laptops: XP 32 on one really old Toshiba, XP64 on an HP Pavilion zv6000, and a clunker Dell X300 ultralight i was able to make work again, put an SSD drive in the thing and it screams! Ubuntu 8.10. Wireless works out of the box. :D

-VM's: Win95, Win98, PC-DOS 7, OS/2 Warp 3, Ubuntu, Suse, CentOS, etc. I find that Virtual Box gives the best performance, but it hampered by it's lack of portability. MS Virtual PC is slow, VMware is the best overall.

Admittedly, DOSBox runs old games in any OS nowadays so the days of old OS's running in a VM for home use are numbered.

Running OS/2 reminds me of the good ol' days of true object-oriented computing. In laymen's terms, everything is an object with properties that can be changed and interact with one another. The Explorer shell never has come close to what the OS/2 Presentation Manager had to offer. Norton commander was nice, but it didn't last long.
 
Originally Posted By: StevieC
I'm running a whole bunch of O/S on my network.. I have once PC with Windows XP Pro, another with Windows 2K, another one with all the oldies in case I want to test something... It has 3.11, 95A, 95OSR2, 98, 98SE, ME. Also it keeps my old O/S's for me to remember!
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On my work laptop I have Win XP Pro and it's a P-O-S dell that is always acting up because of the choice of corporate anti-virus, web-surfing monitor etc. that they have on it.
mad.gif
This stuff actually makes me less productive! Needless to say I only use this when I'm traveling and leave it in the car all the time. (Yes in the winter and summer.. Not mine, and I would love it if it died because I hear the newer models our company is shipping out is much better!)

On my new laptop for home use I have Windows Vista Premium.



3.1! That brings back some memories.
 
I have a 1st generation Macbook Pro running OS X which I use for web development, audio and video production and graphics. I run a Win2k system as a VM using VirtualBox. Things like Logic Pro, Final Cut, Photoshop (the entire CS suite, actually) are kinda requisites for my work. As soon I feel like there are Linux-based alternatives, I'll jump ship.

Also in the house are my wife's ubuntu (8.10) system, a Slackware (12.2) loaded old IBM thinkpad up in the bedroom used exclusively for my (high school teacher) wife to check to see if buses are running in the morning, and a Slackware (12.2) media server. I use the ubuntu systems for about a dozen family, friends and clients because they were dead easy to set up, and there is a tremendous support community. I am working, though, on creating a replicable Slackware install that I can deploy to these people. Slackware, I have found, is faster and more stable. For general household use, especially for folks using older systems, Slackware is as close to perfect as I could ask for, assuming proper hardware support. The system I am working on setting up uses Fluxbox, although I may take a crack at KDE 4.2.
 
XP Media Center X64 on my laptop.
XP Pro on the desktop.
XP Pro on wifes laptop.
XP home on SILs laptop.

All current at SP3.

Almost forgot, Puppy Linux on a USB drive, which is an easy way to play with Linux...

I like to play with my puppy...
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If the average computer user didn't download so much porn and music off LimeWire, or so many spyware toolbars/Zwinky/chat programs/etc. there really wouldn't be that bad of reputation for Windows.

Macs have a built in protection against idiots because none of the troublesome malware is compatible and the price tag is high enough to scare most of them off.

With common sense and less than a handfull of simple precautions, a Windows PC is basically bulletprrof.
 
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If the average computer user didn't download so much porn and music off LimeWire, or so many spyware toolbars/Zwinky/chat programs/etc. there really wouldn't be that bad of reputation for Windows.


If Windows was a secure OS, people couldn't exploit it. The bad reputation comes from the fact that you have to limit your activities and watch your back and keep your protections updated and watch what you download and watch where you go just to be able to use this piece of junk.

Originally Posted By: MGregoir
Macs have a built in protection against idiots because none of the troublesome malware is compatible and the price tag is high enough to scare most of them off.


I am not following why malware writers would be "scared off" of an OS that runs on expensive computers.

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With common sense and less than a handfull of simple precautions,


Absolutely, using Windows affords everyone the opportunity to have to exercise caution and good technical judgment; whereas other OS's deny us all that privilege.

The "built in protection" is probably better known as "Doing Stuff Right In The First Place".

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a Windows PC is basically bulletprrof.


Whoops! I just spit my coffee all over my laptop... You can just say anything on the internet, eh? Lemme try this:

I'm Santa Claus. And the King of Spain.
 
Dual Boot- Vista X64, Ubuntu 8.10 X64 (mostly stay in ubuntu).
Specs are
Phenom II 940 at 4.1 Ghz.
6GB ram
ATI radeon HD4850 512MB
 
At Home:

Wife's computer XP home
Daughter's computer XP Pro

My computers...
laptop1 XP home
laptop2 XP media center
Old Gateway with removable drives that I use for a ghost backup server... XP Pro / W2K Pro / linux

At work:

My desktop PC at work XP Pro

I don't love or hate any of the above they all have their strengths and weaknesses. Windows is far less of a hassle because for better or worse it's a standard.

Here's a quiz. At work I maintain computers in a process control environment. The main computers that are running the place can run for years without crashing and they don't run any anti virus software.

What OS do they run?
 
Originally Posted By: xlt4me

Here's a quiz. At work I maintain computers in a process control environment. The main computers that are running the place can run for years without crashing and they don't run any anti virus software.

What OS do they run?


Probably some version of Windows though iFix also works with Linux as well. Are you running iFix, Rockwell RSLogix, other? At work, I admin some automated systems running on Windows NT and others on XP.

At home my main pc is a multiboot Windows XP, Ubuntun Edubuntu, Sabayon.

My kids' computer (our old pc) does fine on Windoes 98 but I mostly have it on Puppy Linux due to less and less multimedia support on such an old OS. On puppy it surfs pretty quick. You would never guess it's powered by 600mHz and 374meg.
 
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Originally Posted By: xlt4me

Here's a quiz. At work I maintain computers in a process control environment. The main computers that are running the place can run for years without crashing and they don't run any anti virus software.

What OS do they run?


Probably some version of windows


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I dunno, he might be right; just reading that, though is very funny. I may lift that and use it as a sig later on.
 
Originally Posted By: uc50ic4more


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That is what the business world uses. If you want to control a manufacturing facility, run laboratory equipment for protein purification, submit a manuscript to a publisher, or submit a resume you're running Windows.
 
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