What Operating System do you run?

elasticwings · Post by **elasticwings** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:31 pm

I don't know if anybody ran a poll of this before or not. And I'm too lazy to search to see. Just curious what everybody here runs on their computer.

Nephilim · Post by **Nephilim** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:49 pm

Well, that's difficult for me. I voted OSX because that's what is on my main system, but I also have PCs running XP, Slackware, and I had one running a copy of BeOS a while back, but I'm not sure if I still have that one or not.

elasticwings · Post by **elasticwings** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 10:55 pm

Yeah, in hindsight. I got to thinking myself. I use Fedora on one of my computers and WinXP on my gaming computer. But my all around internet/desktop computer that I use the most is now Ubuntu Linux.

Nephilim · Post by **Nephilim** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 9:46 am

I gave Ubuntu a try not too long ago. I like, it's pretty slick. I still like Slack better, but the people doing Ubuntu have got something nice there.

Sir Diddimus · Post by **Sir Diddimus** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 12:36 pm

I had to vote Win 2k because I'm at work, and we don't have an internet connection at our new house yet.....

But, at home I have Win 2k, and P.H.L.A.K. (bootable by CD) :twisted:

razor · Post by **razor** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 4:44 pm

Server at home: Slackware 10.0
Primary/Secondary systems at home: 2003 standard
IM machine at home: 98 SE
Few other machines at home that aren't 'powered up' that have various versions of slackware.
Workstation at work: 2003 standard

junkie christ · Post by **junkie christ** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 5:12 pm

i actually am a fan of XP.
im guilty of being a closet red hat fan (junkie.fights.with.linux.)

iblis · Post by **iblis** » Fri Apr 01, 2005 8:13 pm

Hey, where's (Free|Open|Net)BSD?

Barring that, Slackjuarez. :mrgreen:

(coredump is on a Mac.)

Bigun · Post by **Bigun** » Sun May 01, 2005 8:05 pm

Gentoo fanboy here

iblis · Post by **iblis** » Sun May 01, 2005 10:22 pm

I just found out that I still have OS2 Warp 3. Don't get me wrong: I refuse to put it on anything that I own. So I can't claim that I run it.

But hey, I have it.

iblis · Post by **iblis** » Thu May 05, 2005 6:51 pm

I've just added FreeBSD to my list. (again)

iblis · Post by **iblis** » Sun Mar 12, 2006 12:08 pm

elasticwings wrote:Yeah, in hindsight. I got to thinking myself. I use Fedora on one of my computers and WinXP on my gaming computer. But my all around internet/desktop computer that I use the most is now Ubuntu Linux.

i just tried out the latest ubuntu livecd on my notebook - the only thing it didn't support 'out of the box' was my wifi nic, and that's 'cause it requires ndiswrapper (stupid, but free micro$oft card...). i'm thinking that unless i find some uber-advanced, installs-linux-then-makes-me-a-sammich distro between now and when i resize my ntfs partition, this notebook will be running ubuntu.

elasticwings · Post by **elasticwings** » Thu Mar 16, 2006 11:33 am

iblis wrote:
elasticwings wrote:Yeah, in hindsight. I got to thinking myself. I use Fedora on one of my computers and WinXP on my gaming computer. But my all around internet/desktop computer that I use the most is now Ubuntu Linux.

i just tried out the latest ubuntu livecd on my notebook - the only thing it didn't support 'out of the box' was my wifi nic, and that's 'cause it requires ndiswrapper (stupid, but free micro$oft card...). i'm thinking that unless i find some uber-advanced, installs-linux-then-makes-me-a-sammich distro between now and when i resize my ntfs partition, this notebook will be running ubuntu.

Yeah, I love that distro for desktop use. I recommend it to anybody generally just looking to try Linux without any prior knowledge. I'm about to try out Kubuntu soon though to see if I've been missing anything in the KDE world. I haven't messed in KDE in a very long time. On another note, I setup KnoppMyth for my media box in the living room last night. I spent forever and a half trying to get the stupid remote working under several different distros and cursed LIRC up and down just to find out that it's a design flaw of the Hauppage cards that makes the IR receiver not really fit into the connection easily. Apparently, you have to angle the damn thing one way and force it in, but I finally have my remote working in Mythtv. I was very very happy to finally get that sorted out last night.

http://www.mysettopbox.tv/knoppmyth.html