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March 11, 2006 at 3:19 pm #2191591
Which OS do you use?
Lockedby intel inside me · about 18 years, 1 month ago
I’m jus asking people what OS are they running.
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March 11, 2006 at 5:02 pm #3266696
Linux/XP
by choppit · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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For personal use it’s currently 95% Linux(FC4) & 5% Win XP, at work it’s around 50% Linux(RH4)& 50% Win XP.
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March 11, 2006 at 11:55 pm #3266664
The only one worth using..
by jaqui · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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100% linux.
multiple distros, but only linux.
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March 12, 2006 at 12:32 am #3266661
Windows XP Pro.
by creative8008 · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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I have windows XP Por running on more than 258 computers in my company..
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March 12, 2006 at 2:44 am #3266651
Both
by gautamin · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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On job, win, win, win
At home, Win98, Win2k, WinXP, LinuxFC -
March 12, 2006 at 11:32 am #3266583
depends on purpose
by fred410 · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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my home machines are 98 and ME
my work is xpig, corp setup that way, going to see if can regen to 2000
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March 12, 2006 at 4:45 pm #3266569
Home/Work
by lordshipmayhem · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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At home: about 99.999% Linux (I still need Windows for my fave tax prep software…)
At work: 100% Windows shop, not my choice
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March 12, 2006 at 7:29 pm #3266560
Linux / XP
by amberhaze · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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At home: I use Debian Linux for my workstation, Slackware for my server and 3 Win XP boxes for wife, kids misc.
At work: I run about 14 Slackware servers for various companies, 10 or so Win 2000 and 2003 servers, and mostly XP pro workstations, with a few exceptions. On the repair desk, we see everything going as far back as I even saw a win 3.1 machine about a month ago… shudder (Although I must note, without any protection, the 3.1 machine was connected and NOT getting infected with anything… I guess it was too old for most modern infections… lol)
If it wasn’t for software my clients use which is written specifically for MSSQL, I would probably go 100% to Linux for my servers.
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March 12, 2006 at 7:56 pm #3266550
What I’m running
by intel inside me · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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I’m running Windows Xp home at home and windows xp pro for my pro. work
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March 13, 2006 at 3:15 pm #3268147
So….
by choppit · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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Have you tried, or are you tempted to try Linux?
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March 16, 2006 at 7:31 pm #3077170
No not really
by intel inside me · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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I never tried linux but planning to,do you know where i could get it for free?
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March 18, 2006 at 10:11 pm #3074043
Everywhere.
by nighthawk808 · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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http://www.opensuse.org if you want to experience just how powerful Linux is and aren’t afraid to tinker a bit. Download the eval version.
http://www.xandros.com/about/downloads.html if you want to check out Linux but feel like you’re still using Windows XP. The BitTorrent is free.
http://www.kubuntu.org for a balance between Linux’s power and Windows’s brain-dead simplicity.
http://www.knoppix.net for a Live CD version that loads directly from CD and doesn’t require any installation on your hard drive. It’s MUCH slower than installing a distro on your hard drive since the CD-ROM is so much slower than a hard drive, but it will give you a chance to see just how Linux isn’t nearly as hard as people say it is.
Of course, by recommending any distro, I’ve poked a flaming stick into a killer bees’ nest. Nevertheless, I think that if you try Linux for a little while, you’ll get hooked. If you do decide to do a hard drive install, I’ve compiled a few tips here: http://www.geocities.com/lmc2124/no_ms.html
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March 13, 2006 at 5:03 am #3266491
XP when I am forced to; Linux at home
by starderup · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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I am grateful to Redmond, WA for the constant stream of buggy software that puts food on my table (fixing it; making it work – email, etc.), but at home, I leave Windoze for my wife and son, who couldn’t install a driver to save their lives.
I run SuSE Pro 9.0.
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March 13, 2006 at 11:00 am #3268298
linux(redhat), xp-pro/home, win2k, win98
by debear · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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Currently using linux(redhat), xp-pro xp-home, win2k, win98 (for those who haven’t upgraded yet); still prefer win2k for windows apps.
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March 13, 2006 at 11:20 am #3268287
98SE, XP PRO
by nz_justice · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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And soon Mandriva. Posibily Debain and win2k3 server and mac os X.
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March 13, 2006 at 2:00 pm #3268177
At work
by neil higgins · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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it’s mainly XP Pro,as “God” refuses to be “adventureous”,plus a few Mac OS X machines.As the office has migrated up (down?), since the days of Windows 95,to XP,the official line is “stick to company policy”,and dont rock the boat.At home it’s Linux,naturally.
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March 13, 2006 at 2:07 pm #3268168
XP Pro Mandrake Linux Slackware Linux
by edward35 · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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XP Pro Mandrake Linux Slackware Linux
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March 13, 2006 at 6:21 pm #3268081
Just about the lot except Mac and Unix
by deadly ernest · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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I have, and still use, some on older hardware, legal copies of Dos 6.2 with Win 3.11/32 (the 32 bit upgrade program applied); Win 98 SE; Win 2000 Pro; Win XP Pro; Win XP Pro 64 bit edition; Mandriva 2006; Fedora Core 4; Mandrake 10. And am looking forward to Trying Fedora Core 5 soon.
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March 13, 2006 at 10:29 pm #3267375
Depends on capabilities of ‘puter
by jpjones · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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Because I was too rough with one half of the pair forming my raid 0, I am using my 4-yr old son’s Deskpro. Until I swapped the OEM 4.3 (that’s right, 4.3)GB hard drive to a 60 GB Deskstar, I used the old Win98SE. Now its running Win2K Pro but I had a H___ of a time getting it to handle that “big” a drive–it wouldn’t tolerate the drive at all until I used the jumpers to force 15 head architecture rather than 16 head. Finally it “sounds” like it’s spinning pretty fast even though this elderly machine thinks 4500 is fast.
Being too cheap to spring for overnight warranty service, I’ll be using Win2K Pro for a few more days until the replacement drive & MOBO arrive–then I’ll try to load XP Pro (I swear I don’t know why I sprung for a 64 bit processor) onto 2 pair of raid 0s. Don’t know how it will work out because I’ve never choreographed a pair of zeros mirroring another pair of zeros. Before the connector mishap, I just backed my zeros to a big ol’ PATA Western Digital every night.
Since I have a chipset/MOBO fast enough to handle XP Pro’s hoggish tendencies in the mem department, I prefer it to Win2K Pro. When swapping the harddrives, I needed to modify the boot.ini which is a snap in XP (as close as the Run window), but Win2K didn’t like me trying to mess w/ the boot.ini and I felt like a contortionist.
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March 13, 2006 at 10:52 pm #3267371
One more comment
by jpjones · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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As I continue to patch the patches here with Win 2K & the spouse, Office 2K, I have tried not to think about how long it takes to bring the oldsters up-to-speed. But I’m not nostalgic for the days of yore–I just wish I were as young as I was when I was using WordPerfect 4.1 on an IBM w/ an 8086/8087 Intel chipset.
One benefit of my son’s system over mine is that when I’m using it, it is quiet–there’s only 1 fan. My homebuilt system has 8 fans when you count the power supply & the graphics card–after too many hours using it, I’m wondering when the plane is going to land.
When the boy uses his system, however, its very loud w/ KidPix or Blue’s Clues or the BackYardagins or especially Danny Phantom.
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March 14, 2006 at 8:00 am #3267198
Depends on the Machine
by dawgit · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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one can only make a machince do what it can. So depending on what project I’m working on, and which machine I use the following: WinXP Pro (& a Home edit. hiding ‘incase’), Win2k Pro, WinME (under Linux), Win98SE, DOS 6.22 (super for embeded stuff & fast for that type of work too!) Red Hat – Fedura, Suse Linux (all flavors). But no Apples (yet)
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March 14, 2006 at 9:19 am #3267161
XP Pro
by alan henderson · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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Love to use Linux, but I spend my life helping people with Windows, so I’m stuck with it. Don’t have time to keep on top of 2 OSs.
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March 14, 2006 at 1:28 pm #3267107
Suse 10.0
by rashby1 · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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I’m using Suse 10.0 at home. Im dual booting to xp pro. I’m showing my son (6 years old) how to use both Knoppix Kids and XP. At work, I support w2k workstations.
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March 17, 2006 at 5:36 am #3077073
How high can I count?
by trule · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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Let’s see…..
At home Mac OS X 10.3.9, 10.2, 9.2.2, Win 98SE
At one workplace it’s Win XP Pro, Win2000, Ubuntu Linux, Mac OS 10.4.x
At another it’s Win XP Home—–
EVERYBODY sing!
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March 17, 2006 at 1:15 pm #3074212
Mac OSX
by perry.studt · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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My OS is Mac OSX 10.4.5 PPC version. It runs on a dual 867MHz
PPC G4–at least partly because of the difficulty of transforming
mac quicken files to windows quicken ones. The OS is smooth and
fluid. I’m looking forward to Vista. Maybe it will come up to
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March 17, 2006 at 4:03 pm #3074155
Linux
by nighthawk808 · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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OpenSuSE 10.0 on AMD. The only way I’d use an Intel processor is if you gave it to me for free. They’re most useful when put under a short table leg to level it out.
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March 17, 2006 at 8:52 pm #3074115
Some of can say the same about AMD
by deadly ernest · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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Over the years I have used hundreds of Intel chips and only had a problem with one as a warranty and two others dying after 12 years of constant use. Used five Cyrix chips and had a problem with one gong belly up after 9 years. I have used three AMD chips and two went belly up within 18 months – warranty refused and the other just does not work at the moment, tested OK by another tech but refuses to work on the system it came with and the board checks out OK too. Am looking into all the relevant onboard settings, I did not buy or set the board up so not sure how it is set up – am awaiting the board manual which is in the mail.
I am begining to think that my problem with AMD is that I do NOT overclock them, I never overclock a CPU – but friends who swear by AMD always overclock their chips by a lot. Oh well.
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March 18, 2006 at 8:31 pm #3074048
Suspect possible other problems too
by amberhaze · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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Personally, I have used thousands of each (Intel, AMD, and misc others. I have had very few processor failures. And all the failures I have ever had, can all be attributed back to either a mother board fault (often bad caps), bad or inadiquate power supply, or dirty processor fan. I have never had a processor die on me after the 30 day burn in that wasn’t directly attributable to one of these three causes.
Just relating my personal experiences.
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March 18, 2006 at 9:55 pm #3074045
Bad luck, perhaps?
by nighthawk808 · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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Perhaps you’ve had some bad luck. I don’t know how many processors I’ve used, but the count has to be pushing 50. Of those, I’ve only had two die prematurely, and both of those were Pentium 4’s. I did acidentally kill an Athlon XP 2000+, though. I cracked the core while installing a Coolermaster Jet 7 HSF. I’ve got to say this to AMD: an exposed-core CPU is one of the dumbest ideas I’ve ever seen.
I wasn’t always this big of an AMD fan. It wasn’t until the Athlon XP came out that they really started to stomp Intel. They’ve done a pretty impressive job keeping their lead once they got it, especially considering the massive resources Intel has.
I’ve never overclocked an Intel chip, but I’ve overclocked every AMD that I use regularly. I had my 2000+ clocked at slightly over 2 GHz from its standard 1.67 GHz using nothing more that the stock HSF. The 3000+ I’m writing this on is clocked at 2.39 GHz from its standard 2.17 GHz. The CPU could probably go higher (it’s currently running at 102 degrees F with a continuous full load because of Prime95), but the A7N8X motherboard it’s in doesn’t seem to like going much higher than that.
You may not think the OS would have anything to do with overclocking performance, but when this machine was still a dual-booter, I couldn’t overclock it at all. XP would toss a BSOD after about 20-30 minutes of gaming with even a slight overclock (i.e., from 2.17 to 2.18 GHz). I’ve pushed this thing to almost 2.4 GHz with Linux and run Prime95’s stress test (much harder on the CPU than gaming) for hours.
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March 17, 2006 at 7:56 pm #3074125
DOS 6.0
by popcontext · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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Just kidding! I actually use XP at home. I didn’t think it was possible, but I have finally found something that takes more time than for Windows to boot. Sign on to AOL with dialup by the time all of the animated ads finish loading it’s time to go to bed.
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March 17, 2006 at 8:33 pm #3074121
only home based
by bluron · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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about 10% 98SE, 40% XP home, 95% XP media.
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March 19, 2006 at 3:52 pm #3073969
You mean there are people who use just one?
by jgaskell · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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I couldn’t imagine using just the one OS – what kind of IT professional would I be?
At my workplace I use Windows XP Tablet on my own PC, Windows 2000, 2003 and Debian on the servers. At home it’s Windows XP Home, Fedora and Debian. I keep my hand in with other OSes, though I haven’t seen much MacOS lately, I must admit. Still do a fair bit of work with Unix and OpenVMS.
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March 20, 2006 at 6:55 am #3075094
Win XP
by tknepper17268 · about 18 years, 1 month ago
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I currently use only Microsoft O/S’s For one I wish I knew some of the others and for another I wish I knew the compatabilities of software with the other o/s’s
But I am mostly using XP PRO on Most all my Companies Computers.
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March 23, 2006 at 9:30 pm #3074376
OS or OSs? Windows Medley
by frankie566 · about 18 years ago
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Server – Windows Server 2003, Laptop – Win XP & PC – Win 2K Pro, & Some workstations still Win98SE at a Public Library.
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March 30, 2006 at 7:44 am #3263939
insatiable curiosity
by npbwbass · about 18 years ago
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Because of insatiable curiosity I have loaded and used all Windows OS versions since 3.11, BSD, multiple distros of Linux, and MAC OSX. I have settled mostly on SuSE 10.0 and MAC. My home systems are dual boot SuSE/XP pro and a MAC OSX. My wife who is a novice uses only SuSE and the MAC. I support all of these OS’s at work as the CTO.
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March 26, 2007 at 5:10 pm #2527966
Windows 2000 Pro
by av8rninja · about 17 years ago
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Because I live a lifetime of discontinuation. I loved 2k from the start, it was in my opinion ten feet tall and bulletproof, until XP became big little brother. So now I will be stuck not being able to use a lot of software that I don’t care about anyway.
I want to learn Linux, but like a chain smoker saying he is going to quit, I am like everyone else that says they want to learn Linux, probably ain’t gonna happen.
I love the way Microsoft separates the smartypantses from me, in the system requirements of Office 2007, it says XP SP2 and later….and Vista. Guess that leaves me out? Hell, I don’t know if pro is after xp sp2???
I have used win since 3.1 and I repair computers, if I kept all that crap in my head I would flippin explode. If someone wants to tell the dumbass here which windows came when….I’d appreciate it.
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June 8, 2007 at 10:52 am #2583515
im like you
by userdeletedbyrequest · about 16 years, 10 months ago
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I only recently upgrade my network on to Windows XP from 2000 I love it! but unfortunately its time to upgrade. The good thing is that Windows XP is build on the foundations of 2000
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