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Posted by: macpro Aug 28 2005, 07:31 PM

Posted by: spare time toys Aug 28 2005, 07:37 PM

Yes first one to vote XP all the way We were windows 95 up till this last spring. It was like stepping into a strange new world.

Posted by: skline Aug 28 2005, 07:53 PM

I actually run Both Windows XP and on my Mac, I run OS-X

Posted by: redshift Aug 28 2005, 07:54 PM

I persistantly use 3 OSs, Win98SE, Mac 9, and X.

I HATE XP, and OSs 9 and X are not stable with my music apps. Win98 isn't a marketing pipeline, and takes less than 3% system resources to run.


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Posted by: Mueller Aug 28 2005, 08:18 PM

win 98 on 3 systems on home stuff, win 2K pro on workstation....looking to get a brand new Dell in the next few weeks, still deciding which model...

Posted by: Brent Aug 28 2005, 08:28 PM

Win 2k Pro. Have partition for Linux, but looking for right opportunity to load.

Posted by: Qarl Aug 28 2005, 08:41 PM

TRS-80 Model III Basic (loaded from a cassette player).

Gosh... I can't believe I did that once upon a time!

Posted by: Rouser Aug 28 2005, 10:30 PM

QUOTE (Qarl @ Aug 28 2005, 10:41 PM)

TRS-80 Model III Basic (loaded from a cassette player). Gosh... I can't believe I did that once upon a time!

Whoah, a Trash 80!

And I thought I had that beat with my http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Vista/3015/atari130xe.html and http://www.oldskool.org/shrines/pcjr_tandy (with the good, non-Chiclets keyboard).

Almost bought a Commodore 64, but I wanted to "upgraded" to dual 5.25" 360K drives on my Jr instead.

Posted by: bd1308 Aug 28 2005, 10:41 PM

every day, I use the following systems:

windows 2000 (file/music server)
Mac OS X (main computer)
Debian Sarge (web/mail server)

which one do i put?

i *WOULD* use my A4000T if SOMEBODY would let me have thiers....

Posted by: ClayPerrine Aug 29 2005, 06:56 AM

Windows XP Pro on most of my systems.

I have Windows 2003 Advanced Server, Windows 2003 Server, Windows 2003 Web Edition, Windows 2000 Server, Fedora Core, SuSE 9.2, and Novell Netware 4.11 all running somewhere.

Never used a Mac, other than to support the file systems on NT systems.


(Yes, I am a geek. But it pays the for the 914 parts.)

My first "computer" was an IBM selectric typewriter that I added solenoids and an electronic keyboard so that it could be used as a dumb terminal for a mainframe. I progressed from there to a Commodore Vic20, Apple IIE, Commodore 64, Commodore 128, and a bunch of different XT and AT clones over the years. The first thing I had with a hard drive was an XT with a 20mb hard drive that was the size of a lunchbox.

Posted by: Sparky Aug 29 2005, 11:21 AM

OK I've got 1 WinXp box and 3 Linux boxes, two of which are laptops. I'd be all LInux if it weren't for the wife

My best,
Mike D.

Posted by: Qarl Aug 29 2005, 12:18 PM

XP-Pro for personal use at home and on laptop.

At work...

One Fedora Core 3 Linux box running as a Samba file server
Two SCO Unix servers running applications
38 PCs running XP-Home or XP-Pro

Computer history....

TRS-80 Model 4
Laser 128 (Apple II clone)
386sx-20 with 20 mg hard drive and 32 or 64 mb of memory.
Probably a twenty or or so built-from-scratch PCs (various flavors of 386s, 486s, Pentiums, Pentium II, III, IVs, and a few AMD machines).

I have a dual-core 64-bit AMD machine built for fun running Windows-64, but it is not stable enough for business use yet.

Posted by: CptTripps Aug 29 2005, 12:46 PM

QUOTE (Rouser @ Aug 28 2005, 11:30 PM)

http://www.oldskool.org/shrines/pcjr_tandy (with the good, non-Chiclets keyboard).

I had one of those...my first computer. Had the 'good' keyboard AND the chick-lets one! Came with 'Kings Quest'...boy...that one purchase changed my life.

Oh...back to the subject at hand...



Answer your question?

Posted by: ArtechnikA Aug 29 2005, 01:10 PM

well - which is it?

"what OS am i on?" or "what OS is the most virus free?"

thread title has one thing, the poll has another.
let me know, so i'll know how to answer...

Posted by: Verruckt Aug 29 2005, 06:52 PM

2 windows pc's at home.. and everything else is linux, CentOS, Gentoo.

Posted by: mikelsr Aug 29 2005, 07:16 PM

Linux all the way (unless it is Solaris, AIX, etc)

Posted by: thomasotten Aug 29 2005, 10:55 PM

At work:

Server: Solaris 9

Workstations: Fedora Core 2 with Win XP running through VMWare.

I like Linux, and would run it at home as well, but I am sick and tired of not being able to use peripherals like DVD burners.

Posted by: bd1308 Aug 29 2005, 11:04 PM

i think DVD burning is already here....


I love linux, and subsequently love OS X....both are very virus free!

Posted by: racerx7 Apr 20 2006, 04:44 PM

It is a real pain to burn a dvd on linux though. At least the last time I did
it was. You had to write a whole image first to your disk drive. then
burn the image to your dvd/cd. This might have change now though.

XP pro, games, internet surfing, watch dumb movies from internet
etc... even down loading is easier (bit torrent) etc.., hooking up
stupid usb stuff (scanner, mp3 players, obdII scanners, cameras, game
controllers, digi pad), much better hardware support (video cards)

LINUX is great for x workstation, apache, mysql, network trouble shooting,
scripting. I just love the tools on it. Just simple stuff like find, grep, awk,
dig, nslookup, command recall.

Do they even make a decent game for linux like gt legends, call of duty, etc...
The only game I play on linux is the chess game. The graphics on that is
like from 80's.

I must admit windoz has come a long way. Do you remember the days
when it seemed like you had to reboot every other day?

Posted by: r_towle Apr 20 2006, 06:21 PM

xp, 2000, 98, and linux..
they are all good for something...

i like 98 cause all the older computers still run it fast...
And the kids games work on those...

Rich

Posted by: Verruckt Apr 20 2006, 06:40 PM

burning cd's/dvd's in Linux? K3b. Makes Nero seem difficult. Have used it without faults for quite some time.

Posted by: racerx7 Apr 20 2006, 06:46 PM

K3b. Very cool. I will have to down load it tonight now.

Thanks for the tip.