| What operating system are you using?
Posted: 7/16/2009 5:34:13 AM | Currenty I am using windows xp pro on my dual core system with 4 GB of ram even though I know I am not taking advantage of my DUAL core or my 4 GB of ram as windows only recognizes 3.
I am about to reformat and remove two IDE drives to make my system complete SATA.
I will try my hardest to setup a triple or quad boot system, primary 1st OS will be Windows XP, secondary empty for now but will put Windows 7 on as soon as the retail comes out, 3rd will be Ubuntu and 4th I will attempt to put mac OSX :) | |
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Joined: 4/23/2009
Msg: 127 | |
| What operating system are you using?
Posted: 7/16/2009 9:44:23 AM |
I will try my hardest to setup a triple or quad boot system, primary 1st OS will be Windows XP, secondary empty for now but will put Windows 7 on as soon as the retail comes out, 3rd will be Ubuntu and 4th I will attempt to put mac OSX :)
Check out the G-Parted Live CD, it will help enormously in partitioning your disk(s)
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php
(1 disk=max 4primary partitions)
& Try to install your Windows OSes 1st, Windows has a tendency to take over your computer if you install it/them after Linux or Mac.
->I would recommend waiting until you have Win 7 installed before continuing unless you want to reinstall/fix your bootloader
For Mac OSX, see rEFIt & Bootcamp
>http://refit.sourceforge.net/
>http://www.apple.com/support/bootcamp/
& For something less complicated, you may want to check into VMWare Server (free)
http://www.vmware.com/products/server/
or
Sun's VirtualBox (also free)
http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads
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| What operating system are you using?
Posted: 7/17/2009 7:45:34 PM | im using last xp 20 its realy realy good its a combination between xp and vista doesnt give any problem me rate it over sp2 and sp3 | |
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| What operating system are you using?
Posted: 7/17/2009 11:11:03 PM | Running XP SP3 on my laptop, and Ubuntu 9.0.4 on my new desktop.
I just tried Ubuntu until Windows 7 comes out, but with the new upgrade offer from Microsoft I figured i would use Vista HP and get 7 when it's released. | |
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| What operating system are you using?
Posted: 7/17/2009 11:26:55 PM | Slackware in the mid '90s. Gentoo for the last six years. I just have this overwhelming need to compile most of my system from source; that's why I love my quad-core 
Lots of great open-source tools for professional office/graphics work: Open Office, Latex, Inkscape, etc. I also paid for and use a number of closed-source engineering tools: Xilinx for FPGA design, Eagle Pro for board layout, VariCAD for 3D drafting, etc. Wouldn't mind snagging a copy of UGS NX when I can afford it. The few Windows-only tools I still have to use all run just fine in a Win2K VMWare machine. | |
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| What operating system are you using?
Posted: 7/19/2009 4:16:30 PM | I have several systems ranging from Redhat to Ubuntu to Leapord. My personal use computer is XP SP2. I have a Cisco ASA connected as my firewall and AVG as anti-virus. XP is the best media OS on the market due to stability and compatibility. Vista IMHO is Windows Me all over again. Like Windows Me it became XP after millions of people suffered through a beta they paid for. I forsee Xp being the best OS until VHDL is the primary internet connection offered in the US. After VHDL takes over and Motherboards ship with 2Gig memory standard Vista will be the cream of the crop.  | |
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Posted: 7/22/2009 9:31:44 AM | I've been running opensuse exclusively at home for about 6 months now. There's certain things I couldn't live without if I went back to windows. Mind you, doing any sort of gaming in linux is next to impossible. I've manage to get certain games working under wine... with a lot of work.
I'm thinking about setting up a dual boot environment with windows 7 pretty soon... | |
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Posted: 7/23/2009 1:09:17 AM | Windows Server 2003 (6)
Vista Premium (1) (I needed a good laugh)
XP Pro SP3 (11)
Ubuntu (1)
Centos (1)
Vista IMHO is Windows Me all over again
Get out of my head!!!!  | |
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Joined: 10/11/2008
Msg: 136 | |
| What operating system are you using?
Posted: 7/23/2009 10:19:38 PM | Windows XP will be available until April 2011 (patches until April 2014) .
Stick with what works and enjoy life a little.
Memory is dirt cheap now
Geil 4GB of memory = $ 50 thru NewEgg
# PC2-6400 DDR2-800MHz dual channel
# CAS 4-4-4-12
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| What operating system are you using?
Posted: 7/24/2009 9:41:42 AM | Compared to what it was years ago, everything is cheap.
Anyone remember when memory was $50 a MEG and the price jumped almost daily? | |
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| What operating system are you using?
Posted: 7/24/2009 1:07:12 PM |
Anyone remember when memory was $50 a MEG and the price jumped almost daily?
At the risk of sounding like my kind were wiped out by an asteroid impact 65 million years ago, I remember when I first got into microcomputers. Memory was about $100 a K, so a 4K, S100 memory board was about $450. That was about 1976 I think.
I remember a bunch of stuff before that too, but none of you would probably believe it, since we all know there was no such thing as "before" the Big Bang. | |
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Posted: 7/24/2009 5:55:24 PM | Dont count yourself as the only oldie, i remember back in 76 when the z80 chip came out, just back when memory was $50 a meg, the price changes were worse than any gas pump i've ever seen - One day at $50, the next week it was over $70
My first hard drive was a MFM 5Meg, cost me $1995.00 that was probably somewhere in the 80's, teletypes for terminals - no displays at all, 8" floppies, punch cards and tapes, monochrome screens, 300bps modems, most of which is still somewhere in my basement!  | |
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| What operating system are you using?
Posted: 7/25/2009 5:23:22 AM | With my job Ive pretty much run em all over the years like a few guys here seem to have, but at home I only have a few that I run for various reasons.
My main entertainment OS with is what sees the most interactive use is Windows XP Media Center 2005.
I run a few OSs on my workstation depending at what I need to do at the time, Ive got a dual x5365 based system with 32gig ram and just under 10Tb of RAID'd HDDs so I dont have to worry about resources when I run the army of VMs, and the VT in the Xeon really does come in handy even when you have 8 cores to play with the VT is needed to make propper use of them all.
I dont really run Linux, its good in its way but there are alternatives that do what Linux can do and they do it better.
FreeBSD is my weapon of choice, then Windows Server 2003 EE x64[configured as a workstation OS] followed by Windows XP Pro SP3 x32, it doesnt use all of my ram but it uses what it can, and considering all the memory address hungry hardware Ive got I think just over 3gig is ok.
My main server is running win server 2003 EE, its quite new based an a Dell t7400 workstation with dual E5520's 16gig ram and just over 6Tb RAID HDDs
So for me I think the list would be FreeBSD, Win Server 2003 EE x64 [workstation], Win XP SP3, Sun Solaris for UltraSPARC, Win Server 2003 EE.
I run lots of others in VMs but as they are VMs I dont think they count do they? and they are not used as much by me as the host OSs are | |
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Joined: 4/23/2009
Msg: 141 | |
| What operating system are you using?
Posted: 7/25/2009 10:52:06 AM |
I dont really run Linux, its good in its way but there are alternatives that do what Linux can do and they do it better.
If that's true, why does Google & NASA, US Federal Aviation Administration, Boeing and Lockheed Martin run Linux?
I'm not saying one is better than the other, just saying that different operating systems are good for different things.
-I hear a lot of people who say BSD/Solaris/AIX is the best but they can't elaborate and it just ends up that people believe it is the best for security.....Any OS can be secure if you configure/protect it properly, even Windows.
So how are these 'alternatives' better at everything than linux?
Who uses Linux?
http://www.blabbercamel.com/blog/archives/234
> Over 30 million users and growing rapidly
> Microsoft use Linux for Web caching, wireless network infrastructure and more
> Michael S. Dell, Chairman and CEO of Dell Inc., uses Linux personally on his laptop
> Dell, HP, IBM, Lenovo, Acer, ASUS and many other computer manufacturers load Linux on servers,
desktops and laptops
> Over 95% of the servers and desktops at large animation and visual effects companies
> 75% of the top 500 supercomputers in the world
> Over half of all Web servers, including 8 of the 10 most reliable Web hosting providers
> The Apache Web server leads with over 60% of Web sites, including 44% of secure (SSL) sites
> One quarter of the smartphone OS market
> Government departments worldwide, including in the United Nations, the European Union, the
United States, Japan, Germany, France, India, China and Brazil
> Australian Government departments, including Centrelink, the Bureau of Meteorology, the RTA and
the Australian National Archives
> Educational institutions, including schools, universities and TAFEs
> The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) educational programme, backed by the United Nations and a
multitude of governments, companies and other organisations worldwide
> 5-10 million Linux-powered laptops will be shipped in 2007, with many millions more to follow
> Scientific organisations, including CERN, NCSA and CSIRO
> Automotive companies, including DaimlerChrysler, BMW and PSA Peugeot Citroën
> Aviation, including NASA, US Federal Aviation Administration, Boeing and Lockheed Martin
> Financial organisations, including the NYSE, Merrill Lynch, Citigroup and National Australia Bank
> Film studios, including Sony Pictures, Disney/Pixar, DreamWorks, Industrial Light & Magic and BBC
> Internet companies, including Google, Amazon, Wikipedia and Akamai
> IT companies, including Intel, AMD, IBM, HP, Dell, Lenovo, Acer, ASUS, Brother, Oracle and SAP
> Communications companies, including AT&T, NTT, Vodafone, Telstra and Optus
> Embedded and consumer device manufacturers, including Sony, Matsushita/Panasonic, Samsung,
Nokia, Motorola, Cisco/Linksys, Palm, Sharp, TiVo and FIC
> Energy and Resources companies, including Royal Dutch Shell, BP, Alinta, Santos and Origin
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| What operating system are you using?
Posted: 7/25/2009 1:18:05 PM | I prefer BSD, it all started when I couldnt get drivers for my RAID controller, I was searchin and search and searchin I asked everywhere I could think of and even more places friends could think of and came up with zero in the end which really got to me because in all other ways it was perfect, it was the Rolls Royce of operating systems.
Then I got to looking at BSD because a friend of mine was the muts nuts on it and he told me if they are no drivers he could write them for me, in the end I didnt need him to because it was supported in unix and windows so i went with BSD and that was it really
Ive tried so many distros its unreal, if you give me a list of them I could probably add to it infact, but like you I think an OS is no different to Premiere Pro or media player, it is a tool to do a job, and so far every job I want to do its done by BSD or Windows plain and simple.
BSD has ports, and a great OSS community and its licence allows you to change what ever you like about it which makes it very strong.
Also Linux has a major problem, which is a portion of its user base...
Im sure you know who they are, they are the script kiddies and "1337 H4X0RZ" of the world...
They think because they use a strong OS and have a few old hat hack skillz then it makes the the elite by default, which is bollox!
Thats what anoys me most about Linux.
Ive always used Unix based OSs, so I guess its kinda fitting and only right to use it at home.
And as a server OS it can not be faulted...
In fact I think it might still hold the record for the longest uptime in the server world.
They only come down when the admin pull them down | |
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| What operating system are you using?
Posted: 7/25/2009 1:25:57 PM | OpenBSD holds the "honour" of being widely regarded as the most secure OS by default install.
Thats not my opinion that is the opinion of the security experts, the guys n gals who sit there day in day out looking for holes in security in software, they said the holes are to insignificant to spend time and money looking for them and went on to other OSs | |
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| What operating system are you using?
Posted: 7/26/2009 3:45:41 AM | Im using Mac OXS for my home computer
I also have a laptop which is windows vista.
I bought the mac due to windows constant problems and have been happy with it so far | |
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Posted: 7/26/2009 5:44:17 PM | I had OS X running for a while on my 690, it wasnt bad, felt like BSD with a different front end...
Which is good because it is really, but its not bad, didnt like the apple fan boy stuff though, got rid of it in the end, just didnt bring anything extra to the party for me | |
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| What operating system are you using?
Posted: 7/26/2009 8:43:26 PM | | Ohh so you don't see it so it doesn't exist. I run 2 xp pro systems 1` vista service pack 2 and Ubuntu on my active systems do tech support on a lot of vista and most problems I fix on xp generally just need service pack installed. | |
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| What operating system are you using?
Posted: 7/28/2009 4:02:52 PM | Ummm, Windows 7, Vista Ultimate, XP, and a couple of Ubuntu machines in work for messing with.
As for which I prefer.... Windows 7 easily, it's what Vista should have been. | |
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| What operating system are you using?
Posted: 9/9/2009 9:41:59 AM | Depends on what week it is.
Right now I'm using Ubuntu 2009.04 skinned with Mac4Lin ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/mac4lin/ ) , When I'm not using that I'm using Vista 64. I'm pretty happy with what I have now, so unless I need to do 3d graphics again -I'll probably stick with Ubuntu. | |
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