Which operating system do you use primarily? I use Linux, and have windows XP installed for people I let use my computer, and for a couple games that wine is too slow on. Most people here probably use XP I would guess.

i suck at computers so i just use xp....had 98 but it was a pain i the ass

I really like Windows XP. I use it on my laptop. Both of my servers run RH.

I use Xp but i found out that if it goes wrong; it does it in style, thus, i want to get RedHat sometime soon.

yea, i dual boot win2k/linux on one machine, another runs freebsd, and im trying to get os/2 just to try it out on an old p90

XP here, I was very pleasently surprised with it. But the lie about it not having the dreaded blue screen of death annoys me. I get it very often!!

I have a cool cpmputer, and have upgraded it, but never the OS, I never got around to it, I might switch to XP soon. I wish I could learn how to use Linux and use a cool GUI, and use patches to run all my programs, but I only have a certain amout of time in a day.....

I'm using Mac osX. So far so good. I should start playing with the unix half a bit more, but I'm lazy.

Use both w2k for the pc and freebsd for the server

Dual Boot; Win 98SE and Linux on all (5) systems, planning to try Lindows.

I recently began running LongHorn (Windows 2003) on one of my systems. We'll see how it goes. So far its DOG slow and i have a decent machine...1.8 Ghz. It looks a lot better though. Very nice aesthetics.

-AntonK

I open the back of my computer and I expect to see gears and a hampster in a wheel.

Originally posted by Clockwood
I open the back of my computer and I expect to see gears and a hampster in a wheel.

If you don't you're in trouble!

Course the Hamster is called a power supply and the gears a CPU!-)

The Hamster is fed through that little cord plugged into the wall, and the gears are shifted by the OS, if windows you can often hear them gnash.

Most important thing of all; YOU should stay in the driver's seat!-)

Think my computer needs fresh pine chips? ;)

w2k for desktops, switching from w2k to freebsd for servers.

win98 at work, because it is much faster on our network than 2000.
xp at home

Originally posted by Clockwood
Think my computer needs fresh pine chips? ;)

Saying Pine marks you as an amateur. The proper term is CCPC ConiferousCelluloseProductChip.

Let's see, I use:

OpenBSD for my firewall
FreeBSD for my webserver/e-mail server
Redhat 8.0 Linux for my samba file server
FreeBSD / Gentoo Linux / Windows 2000 Pro for my desktop x86
Mac OS X on my iMac.
Mac OS X on my laptop.

Now, what should I vote? :D

I just switched from Mandrake Linux, to Gentoo last week. Gentoo is alot leaner and faster, and portage kicks ass.

I have a Solaris(/root, /usr, /var, /home partitions installed),Win Xp.

I am trying to download LongHorn Leaks.


bye!

DOS baby!!!

j/k.

i've got win98 at home, and OSX at work.

I have 4 (count 'em, FOUR) partitions on my three hard drives, With win98, xpPro, suse Linux 8.0 and winMe. (sometimes I fool around with the Linux, and stick a different distro in to try, but usually go back to Suse Linux).

How did I get 3 separate windows installs? I'll tell you:
C drive: 5 gigs, win98 installed first, then DISCONNECT the drive, and install winMe on the D drive (neither one will install if it detects another version of windows on pc).

Plug C drive back in, then install xp on E drive...here's the kicker, it will also detect the other two win OS and give you a bootloader menu that allows you to pick which you want to load at startup!!!
Linux partition is booted thru floppy (Microsoft is still out to bury Linux, they made the xp bootloader so it will not recognize anything but windows products :-(........, that's the way it goes when you're a billionaire, I guess). I have yet to find an alternate bootloader that will recognize xp, so if ya want xp and linux on same pc, make sure you have a boot floppy made up for the Linux.

As far as what distro's of linux I have, they are: Red Hat 7.0 (don't like because they have the microsoft mentality...you have to work in the windows connectivity, instead of them auto-loading it for you). Storm 2000 (a dead debian distro, not too shabby...sigh), Connectiva (kinda lame), Progeny debian (never got to work right), Mandrake 9.0 (it's ok, but I hate the new Linux money grubbing mentality going on at Mandrake and Red Hat. No support and all they want you to do is spend money). I recently installed the new Debian, and I couldn't get it to boot up right. And of course the Suse Linux, which is pretty good, even if they do make it nigh on impossible to find your files on the thing, lol)

that's about it

Originally posted by crazydanny
I have 4 (count 'em, FOUR) partitions on my three hard drives, With win98, xpPro, suse Linux 8.0 and winMe. (sometimes I fool around with the Linux, and stick a different distro in to try, but usually go back to Suse Linux).

How did I get 3 separate windows installs? I'll tell you:
C drive: 5 gigs, win98 installed first, then DISCONNECT the drive, and install winMe on the D drive (neither one will install if it detects another version of windows on pc).

Plug C drive back in, then install xp on E drive...here's the kicker, it will also detect the other two win OS and give you a bootloader menu that allows you to pick which you want to load at startup!!!
Linux partition is booted thru floppy (Microsoft is still out to bury Linux, they made the xp bootloader so it will not recognize anything but windows products :-(........, that's the way it goes when you're a billionaire, I guess). I have yet to find an alternate bootloader that will recognize xp, so if ya want xp and linux on same pc, make sure you have a boot floppy made up for the Linux.

As far as what distro's of linux I have, they are: Red Hat 7.0 (don't like because they have the microsoft mentality...you have to work in the windows connectivity, instead of them auto-loading it for you). Storm 2000 (a dead debian distro, not too shabby...sigh), Connectiva (kinda lame), Progeny debian (never got to work right), Mandrake 9.0 (it's ok, but I hate the new Linux money grubbing mentality going on at Mandrake and Red Hat. No support and all they want you to do is spend money). I recently installed the new Debian, and I couldn't get it to boot up right. And of course the Suse Linux, which is pretty good, even if they do make it nigh on impossible to find your files on the thing, lol)

that's about it

Now you are a one! Don't know how old you are but you would have qualified for respect as a hacker* back in the 70's.
(*it was not demonized in the early days, but merely referred to computerist)

Great post, excellent (and ingenious) work-a-rounds. Maybe Gates and his Pirates wouldn't have got to a billion if there had been more of you around.

everyone knows that you can d/l copies of every win version in existence, to include xp, along with the serials to enable them.

Now, without admitting anything that's gonna land me in the pokey or have Mssrs. Gates, etc., trying to snoop out my i.p., what do you guys think of that. Obviously, Linux does well with a free OS, if you want to pay and get the support, ok, if you want it free, click the link....
Bill Gates has more money than he can spend, so it doesn't hurt him for ppl to d/l....is it just about power, control, and domination?

Originally posted by crazydanny
everyone knows that you can d/l copies of every win version in existence, to include xp, along with the serials to enable them.

Now, without admitting anything that's gonna land me in the pokey or have Mssrs. Gates, etc., trying to snoop out my i.p., what do you guys think of that. Obviously, Linux does well with a free OS, if you want to pay and get the support, ok, if you want it free, click the link....
Bill Gates has more money than he can spend, so it doesn't hurt him for ppl to d/l....is it just about power, control, and domination?

Sorry if I upset your delicate sensibilities. I have yet to find a site where you could freely DownLoad (that is what you meant by d/l isn't it?) both the MS OS and the keys. will try a search rather than ask you to finger as that could get us all in trouble.
Your are right about Gates and his scoundrel abettors being over-the-top. Their paranoia peddling has changed for the worse the entire industry. Back before jumping through windows, in the early 80's it was an interesting amalgam of freely sharing and charging for your work. The good producers got wealthy but not sickeningly so. One, I think it may have been Phillipe Kahn of Borland, said outright pirates were a useful element of the whole and contributed to the health of personal computing by increasing the user base who eventually became buyers and/or increased market share.
Technical Support was always free back then; toll free lines, fee free support. In many cases [b][u]indefinitely!

Oh trust me...you can get every OS for free. You can find windows v1 to the most recent...all with their respective keys. But it's a little more complicated than searching google.

For free windows just search on Kazaa, or direct connect, or irc etc... But serials may take a web search.

As for booting XP and linux from the same bootloader, I do it just fine with the linux bootloaders LILO and GRUB. As a matter of fact the lines of the grub config nescesary are:
title=Windows XP
root (hd0,5)
chainloader (hd0,5)+1
And of coarse you would have to change (hd0,5) to the number appropriate to your system. I believe it just links over to your XP bootloader when you choose Windows XP on the menu. I've used it before and it worked fine for linux and XP. You may have to do some research though to figure out how to install and configure it completely. Here is a Doc that has some GRUB setup instructions for my linux distro: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/gentoo-x86-install.xml#doc_chap23 .

Win 2K/Linux RH 9. No probs whatsoever, makes me wonder why people pay money to M$.

I dual boot between Windows 2000 and Redhat 9.

i have a windows 98, though i want a gateway

I use XP and run Linux/win2k/win98/winme in VMWare.

I voted OS X because I only have my iBook at the moment. When I can afford another x86 box, I'll run OpenBSD and Plan 9 (!) like I used to.

I use Windows XP. I [hated] it at first because it arragned differently from the prior versions, but after using it for a while, I got used to it. Now, and now I like it better.

Hubby's computer did something wierd. The icons for folders aren't appearing as manilla folders but rather blue, three-ring folders. It's kinda cool but strange how it happened all of a sudden.

OSX and Linux for a while, but given that all the linux stuff could be done on OSX, now it's just OSX at home. also, VPC (I'm sooo pissed MS bought out connectix!!! :mad: ) running DOS 2000, Win 95, Win 98, Win ME, Win 2000 Pro, and Win XP Pro for software testing reasons. This is why I have 260GB of HD space right now...And it's nearly all full!!!

win 98 on a email box in the LR, and Win 2000 at work.

Should Unix and BSD really be listed as seperate options? And hey, why wasn't OS/2 on the list? Or for that mater HP_UX Sun OS, POSIX, or Xenix?

Originally posted by Mystech
Should Unix and BSD really be listed as seperate options? And hey, why wasn't OS/2 on the list? Or for that mater HP_UX Sun OS, POSIX, or Xenix?

I thought BSD deserved it's own option because I know a decent amount of people that use it(maybe I just know a bunch of wierd ppl?), and is pretty useable as a home system if you like it enough. And I did put the 'other' option there for a reason. I somehow doubted anyone used any of "HP_UX Sun OS, POSIX, or Xenix" as thier primary OS(which is what the question asked) since they don't have much of a gui, and are designed for server use and not home use. But hey, if you've accumulated that many posts hacking away at links on an old HP_UX server, then I applaud you for that feat(especially considering how painful todays forum layouts are to navigate in links). Someone could very well be using OS/2 as thier primary OS, but I figured the number would be too small and the other choice would do. Next time I'll be sure to remember all the Hurd, Commodore 64 and dreamcast webCD using forum members though. Also I don't see where Unix and BSD are listed as seperate options, unless you mean in the sense that BSD has a seperate option that unix isn't included in and is relegated to the 'other' option, but I think I've already explained my reasons.

getting a new laptop for school though, so i will eventually be stuck with WinFisherprice (xp). not looking forward to that. but its required.

stick with the same old windows 98.........

if you have win ME, PLEASE use this software.

click (http://www.angelfire.com/freak2/psychomantyss/software/killdisk_pro.zip)

i'm going to dual boot with red hat soon

question: Is it worth installing a bootleg copy of windows? when you download an update from MS site, doesn't it check your system (serial #, etc..)?

Well..I dont recommend pirating (no sane person would ADMIT to recommending it) but if you did, you are correct you cannot do system updates. But something you must know is that most "critical" system updates are just that...they'll make your system critical. Most updates do MORE harm than good from Microsoft. However, when a good update does come along, usually someone hacks it, and packages it to install on pirated copies, so I've heard.

-AntonK

Originally posted by NightFall
getting a new laptop for school though, so i will eventually be stuck with WinFisherprice (xp). not looking forward to that. but its required.

So what OS would you prefer NightFall?

gots osx on my powerbook and the family imac, running 98 and BeOS on the computer sitting on the floor kept only for 3 player starcraft. Had XP on there too, but ewwww, so slow...so I trashed it to get more space and now half my hardrive just isn't there...oh and I got XP on here that can run under virtual PC

o what OS would you prefer NightFall? i would prefer to stick with 98. im happy with it. change is bad.

What about those of us that dual boot? :( you should have made it so that we could chose more the none item on the poll.

Originally posted by WellCookedFetus
What about those of us that dual boot? :( you should have made it so that we could chose more the none item on the poll.

Just pick the one you use most often.

Well it's windows only for me atm. My bsd server died :(

i would go to xp but it's a resource hog. as for win update i think only xp is checked and if there are more than like 10 comp with the same xp s\n the server deletes it and won't let you update.

I use Windows XP. I hate every second of it. :(

~Cory

fine:
Win XP Pro
then Red Hat Linux.