Operating System

[simon]

Unusable =]

That one actually falls under the category of tried to get working. It didn't seem to support any piece of my hardware. Actually now that I think about it I am going to try it again... But with a different box. Man-o-Man-o.

simon

[omega884]

Pardon me for being dumb....

But could you tell me what Plan 9 is?

And also, has anyone out there used or have a copy of Microsoft Bob?

[astcell]

W2KP and NT4SP6a at work.
98SE and 98ME at home.
I have an XP disk I will use as a repair when SE gets hacked up.
Tried loading BeOS but it hates my laptop.

...and I can remember standing out in line for DOS 4.0....

[simon]

Re: Pardon me for being dumb....

Originally posted by omega884
But could you tell me what Plan 9 is?

And also, has anyone out there used or have a copy of Microsoft Bob?

Plan 9 is an operating system that has come out of Bell Labs within the past 10 years I think... It was designed to out do UNIX due to some fundimental weaknesses in its design.

The home page for the 3rd release of Plan 9 is available here: http://www.cs.bell-labs.com/plan9dist/index.html
A search on google for "Plan 9 OS" with the quotes brings up some good links.

That is also one of the underlying ideas behind the GNU/Hurd project. The folks at debian are working on Hurd as well. Check the following links for mo' info.

GNU/Hurd Home Page
>> http://www.gnu.org/software/hurd/hurd.html

Debian GNU/Hurd Website
>> http://www.debian.org/ports/hurd/

Interview with a Hurd Kernel Hacker
>> http://kerneltrap.com/article.php?th...rder=2&sid=375

Hope that helps =]
simon

[192.168.0.101]

OS of choice

for right now it is:

2k/RH 7.3

this might sound bad but... i actually installed 2k because i like writing java code in a program called Kawa better than VA for java on my linux machine. (Forgive me father for i have sinned)
no, 2k is actually way more stable than i would have guessed.
Linux is where the heart is and i've historically always used suse, but i'm into "experimentation" so i try to keep with it fresh.

late,

.:192.168.0.101:.

[simon]

agreed...

*nix's tend to be better for me and I would argue anyone (learning something new asside).

It's just important not to get stuck in ruts me thinks.

[Hex2ip]

OS

My favorite is QNX. Real time operating system, perfect 4 home and work.

[octalpus]

I just downloaded the QNX demo disk. Doesn't look too terrible... I might have to try it out. Most of our boxes here run SuSE. I got hooked when it was the only thing that loaded without any special help on several of my boxes. I do have WinMe running on this one, because I can't quite get my tuner card to run under Linux. I hope to have that remedied soon. I also have some oddities around here, such as the Amiga 500 I salvaged from my mom's garage (wow, I forgot how much I loved that thing!).

[converge]

now that a friend lured me into vmware.. i dont think I'm ever going back.... just run any damn thing you want... then delete it if it doesn't serve a purpose

www.vmware.com

[opcom]

O/S's

VMS is my first choice, for stuff that I care about.
I'm using 7.3 on an alphaserver 2000. It has pretty much everything I need, runs Apache, and has the CDE now instead of Motif or DECwindows.
The o/s and layered product licenses are free at
http://www.montagar.com/hobbyist/

They've finally done it -changed the d|i|g|i|t|a|l logo to "Compaq" in 7.3

Otherwise,
NT 4.0 for the DEC Alpha.
LINUX RH6.2 -which besides being a great o/s, also makes a great xwindow server for VMS on older VAXen.

win98se ho hum -it came with a computer I got out of the trash.

RSX-11 (but only when the moon is full)

[converge]

compaq sucks! digital was the best...

my only experience with vms is on a microvax3300... with dssi

hehehe I use them as lamp posts right now... only wish bsd had ported for the dssi support (heard lack of tech info was the reason)

[simon]

Hrm

Whats that satistic... 5-6 new os's come out of MIT a year? It would be cool to see what some rich kids can put together =P I"m guessing all micro or mach kernal based systems with no support except for ia32 and generic vga, pci stuff. oh wells. I'm rambling... WEEE!

[converge]

ud think these highcash geeks could pull together and make something worthwhile in their spare time

[windowsme]

rich kids

WEll they aint got anoting int their hands except their <Beeps>
and playboy. so they should be able to come uo with a kick ass system is they all werent crack heads which parents paid them to go through school beggining in the 1st grade.

[skroo]

OS du Jour

Here's a brief rundown of what I'm running on my network:

- Dual P-233: Slackware 8.
- Dual P3/550: BeOS R5, Win98SE.
- P2/350: Slackware 8.
- P-200: BeOS R5.
- BeBox (133MHz): BeOS R5.
- Mac SE/30 (two of them, in fact): MacOS 7.5.3.
- Power Computing PPC/180. MacOS 8, SuSEPPC.
- IBM RS/6000, Model 7011: AIX 4.3.3.
- IBM RS/6000, Model 7012: Was AIX 3.something, drive died.
- SGI Indy (R4400): Irix 6.5.13.
- Sun Sparc4: Solaris 7
- NeXTstation: Unknown (haven't booted it with monitor yet)

That's pretty much the majority side of things... From here, it descends into a sea of Kaypros, Osbornes, and Ataris, and just gets weird