What OS are you using?

I don't think this topic has been done, and is generally mandatory on any geek-afilliated board that has more than 300 members. So, I'll kick it off.

Yeah, I've got a Windows XP box (and a laptop actually) but I'm mainly a Linux man.

-Redhat 9 at home, which I fucking hate, but am too lazy to reinstall anything
-Gentoo at work which I spent about 2 days installing and another 2 configuring. It's fantastic. It really makes me want to pull my pants down.

 

um i have windows xp, i wanna get into linux, which version of linux should i start with :S?

 

well , i have windows xp and me... i always switch between the two., because there's some problems with me that i dont have with xp and some problems with xp that i dont have with me.
i would love to own linux mandrake , i downloaded it , but i dont know how to install it....so i search for a magazine with all three cds of mandrake and some informations to know how to install it.. i'm still searching.... im so tired of windows and microsoft..... :snipe:

and for evangelion-01 , i read about linux and they said that linux mandrake is perfect for new linux users. :smt024

 

I'm a Windows 98 SE fan myself But this box (and my next one) is an XP machine. Mainly due to issues with newer software running on 98.....

 

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missus is using WinXPHome although I have WinXPPro - just no time to do upgrade and as you know it will take bloody long time to do thx to M$.

I'm still uisng OS 8.6 on my old PowerMac...
when it breaks down I will get iMac with wide screen - hopefully by then Apple should have one with big screen... would love the Apple Cube w/ matching monitor though

cheers

 

Workbench 2.05

 

no solaris users :butthead: :smt017

 

I pegged Assembler as a debian guy.
I use some Solaris at work, but don't really dig it. The keyboard is shit, and the hardware is way too fucking expensive.

 

Windows 98 SE. Japanese version. Bet that was a shock :Hangman: :smt043

Yakumo

 

Win XP Pro.

 

Win 2k

I'm using Windows 2k pro. I tried XP but it was too user friendly (can't really think of any other words to describe it)... Going to try Linux when I get a dedicated machine for it though.

 

Windows XP Pro SP1 on my computer

Windows 98 and Conectiva Linux on my notebook.

 

Dual boot Windows XP Pro (and yes, I did pay for it) and BeOS Zeta RC2. Not sure if anyone has done much messing with BeOS at all, but if I could get the damn thing to recognize my ethernet card (sortof like the Linux/winmodem problems) I'd use it all the time - it is an amazing operating system. I had been running the free BeOS Max 3 distro, and then got my hands on a copy of Zeta RC2 to see what it was all about. I'm trying to find RC3 to give it a whirl, and if it's as good as RC2, I'm definately buying the finished product. I'm not too into the current idea of paying for a release candidate, tho... :smt019

I've tried to go the Linux route before, and I must issue a stern warning to any current Windows users who want to try Linux: beware. I grew up on the command lines of MS-DOS and Apple DOS, but Linux's command line (which you WILL have to use, even if in a terminal, no way around it) is the most obtuse thing you could ever attempt to use. Plus the fact that Linux developers are lazy and you have to be able to compile half the stuff you download from source makes it not a lot of fun. Basically, if you like an OS that you can just sit down and do what you need to, keep on using Windows. However, if you need an OS that you have to tweak for days on end, compile half of yourself, and then tweak again, then by all means go right ahead.

The upside to Linux is that yes, everything you hear about it being stable and reliable are true, and there's a staggering amount of software available for it, which you can customize (along with Linux itself) to your heart's content. I'm just warning you that getting Linux to work the way you want is frustrating at best, and is something that isn't remotely fun, easy, or obvious.

That being said, I'm a bit partial to RedHat 9 and the Fedora Core.

Another thing to look for are "live" distos of Linux - it's usually in the form of bootable CD image that lets you get a feel for the OS and test it with all of your hardware to make sure things work, but without the long process of formatting, partitioning, and installing.

 

2 windows XP Pro SP1 machines and 1 HP Debian distro machine of about 10 years old running on a nice HP 80 mhz risc cpu how's that for exotic :smt040

 

I have Windows XP Pro on my tower and Mac OS 10.3.4 on my ibook.

 

I'm a Slackware Linux user, but I'm being forced to use Win 2k on my work place. At home I use Conectiva Linux on my PC.



PD

 

I'm shocked by the lack of Linux users here... just figured we'd have tons. What GSL said is kind of correct... I wouldn't say that most programmers are lazy though. Compiling stuff yourself is just easier for the developer to get the stuff out. Everyone's system is different. There are RPMs, but they're kind of shit.

I'm telling you -- when you get Gentoo installed, it's amazing. Want something? Type a simple command on a terminal to search....find something, another simple command, and you have it a bit later (sometimes minutes, sometimes hours). The idea surrounding it is bnrilliant... although it is pretty tricky to get going.

 

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XP Pro for me. Tried linux before but as someone mentioned earlier the compiling just really annoyed me. I've used windows all my life, and I'm so used to just clicking and installing. Even with RPM's it's not perfect, because you go to install, but oh dear your piece of software has "dependencies". So you go onto the web, find them, install them, install your original piece of software. Damn, You've just wasted a day of your life. I'm all for having the source code available, but it does make installation so incredibly hard.

Knoppix however (Live CD linux distro) is a lifesaver, And im thinking of doing a hard disk install of it as it does seem to have practically everything i need.