| What operating system are you using?
Posted: 6/25/2009 12:52:28 AM | | I was just wondering what operating system everyone is using and what version\distro. By version I don't mean release version. If you're running Windows I'm curious to know if it's 9.X, XP or Vista. If you're running Linux what distro are you running (i.e. Ubuntu, Fedora, ect). How may folks are running OS X? | |
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| What operating system are you using?
Posted: 6/25/2009 1:08:11 AM | XP Professional SP3.
I'm not upgrading to vista until I have my new build setup as well as learning to "get used" to Vista. I played with Linux in the past, but I just didn't like the feeling of installing everything via command line and having to look for help on google every 3 minutes on the whole "sudo apt-get" thing. I'm pretty sure Linux distros are awesome if you can figure out how to use them.. but they're definitely not for the weak minded. I've only tried Ubuntu and Puppy linux. This was maybe.. a year ago? Those live CDs can DEFINITELY come in handy when something screws up on your Windows boot-up process, especially when you can't even get into Safe mode. | |
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| What operating system are you using?
Posted: 6/25/2009 1:16:52 AM | I haven't had to install anything via command line in quite sometime. Most of the major distros come with some pretty hefty repositories and many distros use RPMs.
Do you have any good or bad comments about XP? | |
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| What operating system are you using?
Posted: 6/25/2009 1:25:24 AM | Most of the issues I had with XP were ironed out a good while back. I think my biggest complaints were the indexing service (disabled via services.msc) and the windows messenger pop-ups (Fixed it with gpedit) From what I can tell, XP is just a glossed up version of 2000 with some enhancements like System Restore and the eye-candy skins, doing away with the 95/98/ME skins by default.
System restore comes in handy too, but the cool thing about linux is that you don't need it.. right? Spyware and viruses also seem to be nearly non-existent with linux distros or so I've read. I'd like to setup my own linux server someday, but for now my patience and lack of certain computer peripherals are stopping me from doing so. | |
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| What operating system are you using?
Posted: 6/25/2009 4:06:53 AM | Desktop is XP home edition SP 3 and laptop is Vista. Vista is a huge RAM memory hog. I only have 2 Gigs of RAM on it. The first born has taken over my external drive which I use for photos to put all "unneccessary" software on it so he can shoot videos on the laptop. I think I'll have to get another drive just for photos as the external is getting too much install/uninstall time and is now seriously fragmented. It was not intended to extend his RAM on that laptop  | |
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| What operating system are you using?
Posted: 6/25/2009 6:13:48 AM | | One laptop is XP and the other is Vista. At this time, XP still seems to be the most stable OS out there for Windows, and Vista is the one that's iffy and needing a ton of patches. My tech school desktops (I am studying for IT) are all running XP Pro. | |
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| What operating system are you using?
Posted: 6/25/2009 7:11:05 AM | | I dual boot between XP and OpenSUSE. Mostly use the OpenSUSE. The only reason I have XP on my machine is so I can run testing software to study for certification exams. | |
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| What operating system are you using?
Posted: 6/25/2009 12:41:55 PM | I'm using Vista. It's okay, but I think XP is a more solid OS. I haven't played with any Linux distros in years.
I would be suprised if anyone is still using Windows 9x on anything. | |
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| What operating system are you using?
Posted: 6/25/2009 3:03:21 PM | XP Pro SP3. Wouldn't even bother with Vista since 7 is coming out and who knows what that'll be like.
In fact, I wouldn't have switched from 2k had it not been for the fact that some software wouldn't run any more on 2k (which I thought was the most stable OS they ever came out with).
Right now XP Pro is very stable and I won't leave it just to try something else. Given the bugs in Vista and the fact that it's a mem resource hog, who needs it? For what? | |
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| What operating system are you using?
Posted: 6/25/2009 3:19:58 PM | CentOS v5.3 now for my main server
Windows Server 2003 (Dell Desktop)
Fedora 11 dual booting w/Debian Lenny (Dell Laptop)
Vista dual booting w/Mandriva (HP Laptop)
openSUSE v11.1(Mini Dell 12")
Ubuntu 9.04 (Mini Dell 9")
& A few other distros in VMWare
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My favorites are Fedora & openSUSE for Desktop & CentOS for Server
-A good beginner distro for Linux is Ubuntu >version 8.04 & 9.04 are my favorites for Ubuntu
(Netbook Remix is nice too)
For Windows, I think Win 7 will be worth waiting for. | |
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| What operating system are you using?
Posted: 6/25/2009 3:51:44 PM | Fedora 10 on an IBM ThinkPad
Windows XP on a dell desktop
RedHat 8 on my server
I've being using RH since '99 and only use MS for gaming. I think the last time I had a virus or spyware was around 94-95 and I like the command line ;) I'm using a command line since around '85-86. Ahhh roll on retirement :) | |
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| What operating system are you using?
Posted: 6/25/2009 5:35:42 PM | 2 XP Pro SP3
1 Vista Ultimate (32 bit)
I believe I have a couple hidden mini-Linux systems on my laptops as there is a way to boot and play music or DVDs without having the O/S completely boot. | |
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| What operating system are you using?
Posted: 6/25/2009 6:07:33 PM | Ubuntu 9.04, and I've been rolling with Ubuntu for almost a year now - bye bye Windows (although I will probably eventually do a dual boot installation, and seldom let Windows access the net).
After my disaster with Vista, on a new computer, I said "never again". I had a kernel fault after an OFFICIAL upgrade, and that caused me a lot of grief. After all the money spent on Windows products, this was the last straw for me.
Ubuntu is free, secure, and probably the only Linux distro that a Windows person can easily change over to. The online community is great, and the OS doesn't have tons of things slowing it down that many users never need to use. No anti virus needed, either.
One can put the entire Ubuntu OS on a USB stick, and essentially carry one's computer anywhere in the world on a keychain.
Ubuntu's "eye candy" makes Vista look like a Model T. | |
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| What operating system are you using?
Posted: 6/25/2009 8:07:23 PM | been using ubuntu for just about as long, and totally agreed. it's been an eye opening experience, having dozens of tools freely available to solve the same problem, based on what the end requirements are.
M$ will have to pull something pretty impressive out of their sleeve to convince me to go back (maybe patenting the internet?)
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| What operating system are you using?
Posted: 6/25/2009 8:49:29 PM | | vista ultimate sp1. i built my computer from scratch and haven't had a single glitch so all the crap i hear about vista is unfounded. | |
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