Here's my setup: Macbook - dual booting os x and XP (this is the computer I use most often) Other Macbook - just os x (I rarely use this one) Laptop - ubuntu (second most used computer) Desktop 1 - running os x, and os 7 -9 (use this one for development, and for being old school) Desktop 2 - XP (GAMES)
If you want to get technical, Unix isn't Unix then. Look at BSD versus Sys V. Those are the two main forks in the road, but clearly one can tell from this simple timeline that there are more. It's probably not that simple. What are we talking about? The kernel? If the kernel is the only thing that defines a system, then one might call Linux a Unix emulator... or an inspired by Unix OS. I believe Torvold got it going b/c he wanted to use Unix on his home (consumer) hardware. Everyone knows, there's more to a *nix distro than that. Shells, scripts, system architecture, etc. I think a more interesting thing to watch will be Microsoft trying to prove that the Linux kernel has like 50 patent infringing routines in it. What would be funner to watch is if by some oddball chance they actually did win in court, how quickly a kosher version be made.
Debian Etch on my solitary laptop. As I'm a real man. I have dual boot with an Old XP install...but I haven't needed it in aaaages.
I really cant justify using Linux Home PC: WinXP Home PC 2(currently dead): Win98 Storage/remote PC: WinXP Test machine: Win2000 Laptop #1: WinXP Laptop #2: WinXP MediaCenter (crap, bloated, considering a downgrade) Work PC: WinXP edit: yes I have tried lots of different flavors of Linux,BSD,Solaris,etc but I found all of them absolutely useless for me
