What operating system are you currently using?

Question

Which of these is yours:
Windows NT (NT, 2000, 222003, ,XP, Vista)
Windows DOS (DOS, 3.11, 95, 98, Me)
Macintosh (PPC/NeXt)
BSD( FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, PCBSD, DesktopBSD, MacOSX & versions thereafter, DragonflyBSD and other systems with the BSD kernel and userland tools)
Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Redhat, other packaging system with the Linux kernel)
RISC OS
UNIX (HP UX, SIX, Solaris)
Plan9 and Inferno
BeOS and haaiku,
QNX,
or some other?


Currently, I am using FreeBSD 7.0 RC-1 AMD64.

Answer 1

Everything has its pros and cons.



I use Windows XP for my desktops (3 in the house)

I use Linux (usually Debian) to run my internet servers (2 in the house)

I use Mac for my portables and handhelds

I use BSD or Unix (usually Solaris) at work for the really large internet servers

And you REALLY dont want to see a list of all of the OSs that I have used in the past.



Nice list. Did you know that there are over 300 operating systems?

Answer 2

XP now, Ubuntu Linux sometimes, xp coz i have games, ubuntu coz i want to learn it, i just took time to open case, plug and unplug two drives that i want to use. Dual boot with grub does not work for me. (yes, ive tried it)

Answer 3

'Linux (Ubuntu, Fedora, Debian, Redhat, other packaging system with the Linux kernel)' Is what I would fall under.



Although, I run a custom distro based loosely off of .rpm.

Answer 4

DesktopBSD 1.6 RC3 (FreeBSD 6.2-Stable), Vector Linux and Yoper (Linux).



I have a few others on another machine but it is currently broken so it doesn't really count.

Answer 5

My husband and I are both geeks, so we have multiple computers. At home, we have three computers running Vista Ultimate, one running XP, one Mac OS 10.4, and one running Ubuntu 7.10. At work, I have one machine running XP and one running OS 10.4, plus a couple of Vista Enterprise boxes for testing.

Answer 6

X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.11 Gecko/20071204 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy)

Answer 7

Debian's unstable branch forever!



But curse Debian! I've been wanting to use FreeBSD for sometime now and this Debian has made me too lazy to try out other systems.



Gotta look up the system requirements for FreeBSD right away.

Answer 8

Windows XP, mainly because I have no problem with games and other software that is available being 100% compatible.

Answer 9

My current line up is :



Ubuntu 7.04

Ubuntu 7.10

Sabayon Linux 3.4



Forthcoming projects :



PC OSLinux

Mandriva 2008

Linux Mint 4.0



Current line up is spread over 2 PC's.



Other projects I run on a spare PC



I would be interested to know how you are finding FreeBSD to work with.

Answer 10

Vista and happy

Answer 11

I'm using Ubuntu 9.10 (Karmic Koala) 64-bit. I love that it's open source, developed and supported mainly by the community (Canonical provides commercial support). Daily updates are distributed extremely rapidly (far faster than Microsoft or Apple), and the system is not reliant on any one company for updates and upgrades. I love that I can download and install applications simply by typing a simple command in the Terminal. I love that it's free, which also goes for literally every application I use. It's extremely quick and responsive (more-so than any Windows operating system, including Windows 7). It boots in ~29 seconds, uses less resources, and runs on more types of hardware than any other major operating system. The core Linux kernel of operating system is far more stable than any other OS, no matter what other companies' marketing says. Lastly, I LOVE that I don't need anti-virus software, because the system is based on Unix and is inherently secure. (Much like OSX, except even less statistical chance of malware infection.) I don't like that there is not a standard interface toolkit which application developers use. Because of this, there is a diverse range of "looks" and styles of application GUIs. Some applications look like they're straight out of 1995, because they use older GUI toolkits.

Answer 12

Windows Vista

Answer 13

I'm currently using Linux Mint

Answer 14

I am currently using Linux Kubuntu 7.10.

Answer 15

I use XP and a Livecd linux Called Knoppix.

Answer 16

Mac OSX Tiger on my Mac, Windows XP Home edition on the PC

Answer 17

Mac OS X 10.5.1, waiting earnestly for the 10.5.2 update in the hopes that it'll restore hierarchical menus to docked folders. :)

Answer 18

I use vista. I have never even heard half of those.

Answer 19

XP

Answer 20

Vista.........





....yeah so what