Operating System

[Xp0nential]

I would like to know what OS is each one using, and the reasons for their choice :D

I personally use OpenBSD , among the OSs I've tried till now I liked it most. Its robust and stable.
In addition the priority of the OpenBSD team is security, something I find important.

I've tried most major distributions of linux, Solaris. I am winhoes free by the way wooohooo!!!
And finally I settled on using BSD which I really prefer .

[converge]

xp on this box for now for test purposes and general use.
98se/slak7.1 on my laptop... linux on a laptop is almost a must for me... client + router + dev + http + ftp + etc.etc = portable power

- other oses at the moment include 98se, nt4s, win2ks, .net adv

- ditched oses include all versions of redhat, vms5 (bored for now), macos8, corel linux, mandrake, freebsd

i'm hearing good things about the newer version of slak (especially kde2 for the gui fr34ks... ).. also debian seems to be getting rave reviews from a few on the board and some friends

[Golden_Eternity]

I'm running win2k pro on my desktops and red hat as my server of choice. At work my system is a 2k/rh 7.1 dual boot because imo linux isn't ready to compete with windows as a workstation, but it blows it out of the water when it comes to functionality. Of course 7.1 auto-detected my sound card while 2k is convinced its an "Unknown PCI device" of some sort, so that's a point in anaconda's favor.

Why do I run them? Well, 2k because its actually stable... My god, a decent OS from microsoft... I wish I could su, though... (run as doesn't count)

RH because it annoys the hell out of people and because I know how to make it secure (see my dc8 ctf entry). I learned linux on rh, so I know it well. Also, that's what was running on the server when I started working there, so that's what it remains.

rpm makes it real easy to track some of the lower profile programs that make up your environment. Sure, I'll build apache from scratch, but when random package 0.93-1.tgz has a hole, its nice to be able to rpm -qa | grep "bleh" or hell even rpm -Fvh "fooblah".

OK, well, the booze is wearing off... time to go.

[Xp0nential]

laptop

It's funny but now that I remember.
Linux was a whore to install on my laptop. The one that went smoothly was Slackware.
And the best was OpenBSD , I actually was surprised :)
later
Xp0nential

[DrSuSE]

I'll give you just one guess

[converge]

Xp0.. What would you compare OpenBSD to? I haven't tried it. Probably mistakenly, I equated my experience with FreeBSD into not even bothering with OpenBSD. FreeBSD seemed interesting, but for some reason was being a real b1tch with my hardware...

[Xp0nential]

good question

well good question heh.

Actually , to the ones I used before(i.e the OS i've listed them somewhere on this thread) I find it the best.

I've never used FreeBSD. I feel very comfortable with OpenBSD right now I like it.

Aside from hardware incompatibilities. What did you think about OBSD? cause you know the OS is not just about hardware drivers.

later
Xp0nential

[converge]

soon as I get a cdrom I'm gonna give it a try... my systems are in a slight state of stall, but I should be rolling again soon (hopefully a week or so)

[Pyr0]

Slackware, Winnt 4.0 sp6a, Win98se

Slackware: personal favorite for all except gaming
Winnt 4.0 : Server OS that majority of clients are using
Win98se : Gaming

[omega884]

What I use

Mac OS 9: Used on my desktop mac (old computer but still kicking for everyday use). I like the Mac OS, I jus find it easy to use and fast for gettign daily tasks done. Besides, the voice matching login is pretty damn cool!

Mac OS X: Used on my iBook. I love the interface, it's fast, stable and most of all, supports *NIX programs. It is Linux in a user friendly form, and it's the only version of Linux I can get to run on my iBook.

Win 2k: I know I know, evil windows, but hey, I need a gaming machine and the consoles get kinda dull after a while.

RedHat 7: I toy arround with this every once in a while, just for fun.

That's about it for me, I tried Turbo Linux but didn't like it.

[converge]

omega... hop oon irc and grab a copy of xp corp... you'll appreciate it if you run m$ for a game box... better game / hardware support than 2k... more stable than 98...

[omega884]

I would prefer to avoid XP, anything with that much integration with Microsoft's web servers scares me.

[converge]

?? what integration with m$ servers? I think your mistaking it for the .net based blackcomb that is in development... only thing that bugs me is the repeated loading of their chat software, that I can't quite get to stay disabled at startup... otherwise, the closing thing to integration with there servers is windowsupdate. site and or the default msn homepage in ie

[simon]

Oh boy...

I run Debian GNU/Linux 2.2r4. XF86 4.1.0, Modified Ximian Gnome desktop environment, on a 2.4.9 main branch linux kernel (not an allen cox tree etc). And EPOC OS on my PDA.

I use Debian b/c I agree with the projects politics, their packaging system and great community. Infact this server is being hosted on Debian/Apache.

I would try a bsd except I like the packaging and dependency resolution of dpkg/apt-get, and the fact there are 10 developers developing for a linux project for every 1 bsd developer.

Although I would consider running bsd as a server for "security" sake. But generally I dont have random people on my boxes. Only invited ones that are "trusted"...


Here is a list of os's I've tried or tried to get working:
OpenBSD
FreeBSD
Debian GNU/Linux
Redhat
Mandrake
TurboLinux
SuSE
Slackware
Win3x
Win9x
Win2k pro/server
WinME
MS-DOS
PC-DOS
Plan9
MacOS 6-10

And Debian has been my favorite so far.

-simon

[Xp0nential]

mmm

I am curious about Plan9..
how would you rate that OS?