what OS?

Slackware... what else?

 

I use ubuntu now, best OS was/is BeOS fast clean easy to use..

 

I voted other Linux as my favourite is Suse Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) V9
V10 of sles has some big problems and doesnt seem to run half the stuff that V9 could, yeah I know its supposed to but they made major changes and in the process it seems to have gone forward a few steps in some respects and back a long way in others.

Strictly speaking windows 9x isnt an operating system its merely a graphical interface for MS-Dos, and so is Win ME.
I agree with the other poster in the forum who said MS-Dos was a favourite. I was using Dos from the early 80's on an IBM 370/158 mainframe when I worked at a large corporation. IBM-Dos 1.1 if I recollect properly. MS-Dos was very similar in nearly all respects. I havent bothered to check what the status on the NT based windows varieties is in regard to whether they are operating systems in their own right or just frontends to some kind of DOS. Other forms of dos I liked were Novell Dos and ... damn forgot its name.

my order of preference would be
SLES running KDE as a frontend
Windows 2000 Advanced server (less buggy than 2k3)
Windows XP pro (vista is and will be a waste of resources and disk space)
Windows 2003 Enterprise just because I can run exchange 2003 on it
windows 2k pro desktop

Thats it really. Ive messed about with solaris and BSD but they are really for hobbyists and nerdy enthusiasts (ya know the ones in the funny cartoons with a nerdy look and buck-teeth). For serious work I havent found much that rivals the above, that can be run on a PC or server, and are intuitively designed

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reminds me of :
There's no cunts on me drugstable !

 

I have windows XP home on my desktop and OSX on the laptop i use. I think OSX is a better OS, but windows has better computer games and i find it simpler, so i voted windows.

 

Go Linux, Go Linux!

 

XP all the way

 

ok, so its 17 for Linux/Unix and 17 for MS Windows. i can see that there are more computer literates than there used to be 5 years ago when i first ran Linux. ++

 

At last! FP9 for linux (beta):

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flashplayer9/

 

too bad i cant add vista now that it will be released soon

 

Have you always run Ubuntu ? what did you start with back then ?? (You are an Ubuntu user arent you ?- I think I got that right )

 

My favorite OSes are Debian based. Here's a list of OSes that run in my family:

Debian*
Ubuntu*
Fedora+
SuSE+
Slax+
Knoppix#
Solaris#
Mac OS#
OS/400#
DOS+
Windows for Workgroups 3.11#
Windows NT#
Windows 95#
Windows 98/SE+
Windows 2000 Pro*
Windows XP Home/Pro*
Windows 2003 Server*

* Often
+ Sometimes
# Rarely

 

>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

 

Ubuntu all the way. I have done Windows and tried many other Unix based OS's. Used to run straight Debian and it is my second favorite. I am in process of turning into a geek/nerd. Ubuntu is easier for a fairly newbie like myself to run. There is loads of support and both online and in the documentation. Maybe too much. I can run a lot of my favorite programs that are pure Debian on here so I am happy. I've got an Old Dell desktop. The guy I bought it from had XP on it and it was so s-l-o-w and frustrating even on DSL. I had XP and Ubuntu on it for a while,but I just reinstalled and upgraded and I just took the XP off. I can do anything I really want to do in Linux that I can do in Windows with the exception of a few games. I don't need to play them that bad.

Love and Peace, Cricket

 

i just run ubuntu on my iBook G4, its dual boot. for my desktop i am running Fedora Core 5. i have Fedora Core 6 burned to disc but i havent installed it yet because i still need to burn all my dl-ed files to disc. i am gonna wipe all three hard drives clean and re-do my partition tables. currently, i have 2 hard discs as one logical volume and i want to get rid of that.

my very first distro was Red Hat 7, and then i tried Suse 7.3 pro about a year later. five years ago i didnt even know about ubuntu, if it was around. i do maintain my girlfriends ubutnu laptop though... and my mom's FC5 and sisters FC5. whenever i show someone Linux, they want me to install it for them.

 

w2k.

Would rather use me/98se than xp...

 

windows xp at the moment.

wish windows was more stable.

might use a mac, when i am working.

 

Honestly, try Ubuntu 6.10, I have a few friends who fink is is grate!

 

Using Ubuntu... I hate all of the major OSes. Windows is insecure, unstable, monolithic kernel based, and not modular enough... Same goes for Linux except it's more stable and is very secure. Mac is not user-friend enough though I definitely commend them for using a microkernel (and I good one at that).

 

yeah, Mac OSX has a great kernel. Mac has released the OSX 10.3.9 kernel to open source a while back. you can run it under Dawin (open source OSX) on a PC now. supposedly you can port the whole OSX panther system through Darwin but i have never tried. I only had Darwin for a week to test it.

 

Interesting thread.

I didn't think Linux was this popular for desktops. Do the ones here using Linux as a desktop know how to use the OS without the GUI?


One comment on here I found kind of funny: Solaris and BSD not for 'serious' work? Then why do sun certified solaris admin jobs pay six figures? That's a high-paying hobby!