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Posted: **Sun Nov 20, 2005 1:22 pm**

as i am sure i mentioned somewhere, i am using linux. my distro is openSUSE 10.0, which i love. i also run gentoo on one machine, and MEPIS on another. I am dual-booting with WinXPPro (of course, i am a gamer at heart). I am just wondering where people are still at for OS's (i.e. is everyone keeping up with the times, or still stuck in the past, and who is moving forward)

please no flame wars, i am pissed that my first topic got locked up because of the mobius flames, which had nothing to do with the original post, and i was still hoping to see a few people post up in there.

anyway, keep it clean, and if you don't care about operating systems, or say 'OS? What's that?' feel free to move on.

(*edit* yes i know the majority will be xp clicks (if not all))

Posted: **Sun Nov 20, 2005 1:36 pm**

XP Professional SP2 of course.

Posted: **Sun Nov 20, 2005 1:41 pm**

Krom wrote:XP Professional SP2 of course.

ditto

Posted: **Sun Nov 20, 2005 2:36 pm**

XP Pro SP2 twice
Win 2K3
Suse 10
Red Hat Enterprise

Posted: **Sun Nov 20, 2005 2:57 pm**

Gentoo Linux of course!

My main machine is always in Gentoo. I do dual boot with Win XP but only go into it for a few games (sometimes D3) and to do my C++ homework.

My other machine which I also activly used for watching TV and DVDs and using mythtv (im actually typing this message from it) is also running Gentoo Linux, and that's all it is running.

I do have a third machine running Gentoo but it is only a firewall/web server.

So yeah, mostly Linux.

Posted: **Sun Nov 20, 2005 3:22 pm**

Dual boot: Win XP Pro for general usage, and Mandrake Linux when I'm programming.

Posted: **Sun Nov 20, 2005 3:44 pm**

I'm the loan holdout still using 2000.

Posted: **Sun Nov 20, 2005 4:38 pm**

Xp Pro on one machine, and Slackware on the other

Posted: **Sun Nov 20, 2005 4:45 pm**

XP Pro SP2 on 4 machines. Mac OS10 on the G4.

lol. I like the way you have BeOS, but not Mac in the poll options.

Posted: **Sun Nov 20, 2005 5:12 pm**

I made my my OS.

I noticed that MAC wasn't up there.

Posted: **Sun Nov 20, 2005 5:12 pm**

Mainly XP home and Pro, though I have Win2K and Suse Linux 10.0 available.

Posted: **Sun Nov 20, 2005 5:36 pm**

Mr. Perfect wrote:I'm the loan holdout still using 2000.

You had to borrow to buy Win2K?

Oh... you mean "lone".

Posted: **Sun Nov 20, 2005 6:00 pm**

Mobius wrote:
Mr. Perfect wrote:I'm the loan holdout still using 2000.
You had to borrow to buy Win2K?

Oh... you mean "lone".

oh lord just stop man

Posted: **Sun Nov 20, 2005 6:05 pm**

Duper wrote:I made my my OS.

I noticed that MAC wasn't up there.

oh for the love of.... you're right! i have a damn powerbook and didnt even include macos. (but i included beos, figure that out)

my bad....

IF there is anyone here using a mac not running linux and feel insulted by this, my humblest apologies!

(now i will go ahead and laugh about this for a little while...)

Posted: **Sun Nov 20, 2005 6:09 pm**

WinXP Pro on most of my 'puters, one is also dual-boot Win2000; Win98 SE on one old machine, and WinME on my old POS laptop.

Posted: **Sun Nov 20, 2005 7:03 pm**

Flatlander wrote:...and WinME on my old POS laptop.

Speaking from experience, I pity you.

Posted: **Sun Nov 20, 2005 7:22 pm**

Xciter has the right idea. Just run whatever OS is appropriate for the task in a VM.

Posted: **Sun Nov 20, 2005 7:27 pm**

I am currently using W98 SE. It's great, it's stable, but it's not the best I can say right now.

Later this week I will have Slackware 10.2 and Fedora Core 4 on my computer as well.

Posted: **Sun Nov 20, 2005 7:45 pm**

I run XP on one Box, Mandrake on 3 boxes and Suse on the last box.

Posted: **Sun Nov 20, 2005 8:23 pm**

FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE/Gnome 2.10.2

Posted: **Sun Nov 20, 2005 8:32 pm**

DCrazy wrote:FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE/Gnome 2.10.2

yet no vote for the FreeBSD

Posted: **Sun Nov 20, 2005 8:56 pm**

Mobius wrote:
Mr. Perfect wrote:I'm the loan holdout still using 2000.
You had to borrow to buy Win2K?

Oh... you mean "lone".

Both. Someone "loaned" me 2000 before I decided to buy it.

Posted: **Sun Nov 20, 2005 9:15 pm**

still running win2k on a couple of machines...

Posted: **Sun Nov 20, 2005 11:29 pm**

XP Pro SP2 on every machine in the house =)

Posted: **Sun Nov 20, 2005 11:52 pm**

In all honesty Fyre .. only 3 or 4 guys here use Macs.

I'm XP Pro sp2

Posted: **Mon Nov 21, 2005 2:15 am**

fyrephlie wrote:
DCrazy wrote:FreeBSD 6.0-STABLE/Gnome 2.10.2
yet no vote for the FreeBSD

Eh?

Posted: **Mon Nov 21, 2005 3:29 am**

much better thank you

Posted: **Mon Nov 21, 2005 6:49 am**

XP Professional SP2

Posted: **Mon Nov 21, 2005 1:22 pm**

Krom wrote:XP Professional SP2 of course.

Posted: **Mon Nov 21, 2005 6:10 pm**

Mac OS X here. Plus a little bit of XP and Linux.

Posted: **Mon Nov 21, 2005 8:08 pm**

At the moment im at my backup computer, also the computer where I play legacy/ old DOS games. My XP machine is down in the meantime.

I tried playing with Suse 10 but as usual something about Linux just doesnt agree with me. Its a routine that ive been in the last 5 years where every 6 months when a distro gets a major upgrade I: download, install, putz around, screw something up, try to do an internet search on how to fix what I screwed up, give up and try something else that doesnt work, get frustrated, give up, format C: and go back to using the drive as a backup.

Posted: **Mon Nov 21, 2005 8:32 pm**

Top Wop wrote:At the moment im at my backup computer, also the computer where I play legacy/ old DOS games. My XP machine is down in the meantime.

I tried playing with Suse 10 but as usual something about Linux just doesnt agree with me. Its a routine that ive been in the last 5 years where every 6 months when a distro gets a major upgrade I: download, install, putz around, screw something up, try to do an internet search on how to fix what I screwed up, give up and try something else that doesnt work, get frustrated, give up, format C: and go back to using the drive as a backup.

forums are the key to it all... cause their are tons of geeks out there ready to tell you how smart they are.

www.linuxforums.com / www.linuxquestions.com

i did that for a while too... then i stuck it out and now im a happy linux user

Posted: **Mon Nov 21, 2005 11:50 pm**

Cant I just nag you instead next time I go into another Linux adventure?

Posted: **Tue Nov 22, 2005 12:00 am**

Top Wop wrote:Cant I just nag you instead next time I go into another Linux adventure?

you could... but i'll just copy and paste the answers i get from linuxforums...

Posted: **Tue Nov 22, 2005 12:16 am**

I have a fresh unbuntu install.

I had to compile automake from source today, so aclocal actually exists on my machine.

I did install the automake and autoconf packages, but neither installed aclocal...

Posted: **Tue Nov 22, 2005 1:59 pm**

At least you can get it working... for some reason the FreeBSD ports of Autoconf and Automake don't work (yes, even the ones specifically labeled "gnu auto{conf,make}"). FreeBSD has a Linux ABI layer, but you can't compile anything for it!

Posted: **Tue Nov 22, 2005 4:52 pm**

I use Windows 98 SE. I will soon have Win2K pro on my machine as well as Fedora Core 4 and Slackware 10.2.

Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2005 1:23 am**

Triple boot XP Home SP2/98/Mandrake Linux 9.2.

Spend most time in XP though. Only reason it's Home is because Pro was far too expensive for five features I was never going to use anyway.

Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2005 6:56 am**

Running SuSE Linux on both computers (9.1 and 10.0). I have XP Pro SP2 on a partition somewhere... it's been months since I've used it, though. Living room computer has XP Pro so I can play PumpItUp, don't use it for anything else.

Posted: **Wed Nov 23, 2005 10:40 pm**

Gentoo Linux on all my machines.

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