I was just wondering what OS(Primary) people use on their home machine. I want to see how many people acctually use linux as their primary OS

Marc

I think mine is called General Protection fault but sometimes it says Windows'98.

RedX

who's general protection? and more importnatly, why is he reading your hard disk?!?!?!

Marc

I dual boot XP & RH7.2... I suppose you could qualify GNU/Linux as being my primary OS.

linux here.

Well, all that I see is a "Blue Screen", sometimes interrupted by an OS called Win 98.

Triple boot 98se, XP Pro Corporate, and Mandrake 7.2

I've got XP and SuSE 7.0, but I have to delete linux because I need the space on that hard drive reaaalllly bad.

Then r u going to change ur name to XP_Penguin!!!! ;)

MacOS 8.6, Win ME, Mandrake 8.1

I would prefer linux over windows, however my current circumstance prohibits that, and I WOULD NEVER BE XP_PENGUIN!!!!!

FreeBSD exclusively on my main machine, W2K on my laptop as that's the only good MS Windows available and I need to run a MS Windows for certain *cough*cough* apps which I use at school.

At work: Windows 2000 (begging for a second harddrive for Linux)

At home: Dual boot Win2K and Mandrake 8.2rc1

"I would prefer linux over windows, however my current circumstance prohibits that, and I WOULD NEVER BE XP_PENGUIN!!!!!"

E Pluribus Unix :)

win98se on both computers

I run 7 systems...Win98SE, Win2k, Corel Linux, Greycat Linux, FreeBSD, QNX, and BeOS 5.
On my newer system (my parents), I just have WinXP

Hey Sord, does ur computer have space to run Application softwares. It seems to be full of OS.

"I RUN 7 SYSTEMS"

And how many do you actually use?

I actually use 2 systems: Win'98 and Dos.

RedX

I only use linux for GIMP, and now I dont use that very often since I have become quite experienced with PS6, I primarily use 98se, but have XP pro corporate on my machine just so I can say I do.

Oh! Oh! Wouldn't it be totally cool if you could run all 7 systems at once, then see if you can make them all crash at once? :D

Debian GNU/Linux unstable. And no, unstable does not mean
"unstable." It means that the packages are being updated
a lot, new packages are being introduced, and there is no
Quality Assurance done. My box never goes down, except
when the power goes out or I upgrade to a new kernel (next
time I do that will be when 2.6 is released, 2.4.18 works
great for me). I like living on the bleeding edge.

I do the same thing with nVidia's detonator drivers, I almost always run the newest betas

Macintosh OS X.1.3... it runs pretty sweetly. I also have an old IIci waiting for a monitor so I can put MkLinux on it (no matter how debillitated Mk is...it'll still run on 68K architecture).

I have Debian Linux , it was my final distribution choice after testing RedHat 7.1 , CorelLinux , StormLinux and a faulty Mandrake.

-Vlad

infryq: you know that Debian m68k will probably run on the LCII...

win98 and Red Hat 5.0...i'm getting 7.2 soon..linux is the best..but my perants got my VB 6.0 for my b-day so i kept windows around..

I'm now running:
Windows XP Professional,
Redhat 7.2
My own as-of-yet-unnamed GNU/Linux Distro,
And I'm downloading GNU/Hurd at the moment!
Only 4 more and I'll beat him!

I can't say I use them all, it's mostly just for tinkering's sake.

Win98 & 2k (well the installer anyway.. it dosent seem to like my BIOS :/ ) & XP
MacOs 8.1

I want to use Linux, but my parents are oppresive and won't let me use anything thats not microsoft. No Mozilla and no Debian or Mandrake. Anyone got any ideas on how i can make them change?

Pff... build your own computer maybe?

don't have the money, I cant dual boot either because my HD is only 3GB

you could sell cocaine to get some money

Just go up to your dad and go "Either let me install linux or I will be forced to become a crack dealer to make enough money to build my own computer" I bet he'd let you then

Or he sends you to a military school.

RedX

Besides cocaine is too expensive, simply roll your own sigarrets and sell them as joints to kids (you know, the kind trying to look big and cool, but too childish to know the difference). Then let others pay to watch them, since it's funny to see.

RedX

I have the problem with evil adults not letting me using my Debian box on the net...
except I just won (after 2 years, jeez). My uncle is wiring up the basement this week
(not that hard, the basement isn't finished...he just has to bring a cable over to my box).
Woo.

Now i know how Codered managed to get 7 systems. He confronts his father with

"Either let me install linux/.../.../..../(other OS).. or I will be forced to become a crack dealer to make enough money to build my own computer"

Umm... actually I built my rig about a year ago, and have since gone through about 4 major upgrades. I have 2x 20gb HDD's in a RAID0 array and I use them as I please. And I am only running 3 OS's currently

or uh, you could get a regular job part time. sheesh.

doesn't cost that much to build a linux-running computer if all you're concerned about is it *running* ... then you can think about upgrades and getting it to run as good as you want it to.

Win 98 SE

Well I have 3 OS's installed, but only one works (don't play with the registry kids :)). I corrupted both win98se and WinXP pro corporate within a day of each other! I'm running my other install of winXP pro corporate now and plan to install Linux sometime in the next hundred years.

I am thinking of getting a IBM 486 , will Linux go good on that? Yes. It only cost me 4000 pages of unneded computer books and ý10 ($25). So you dnt have to become a crack dealer to get Linux :).

Ummm... $25 could buy you a 486, without the need for getting rid of 4000 pages of unneeded computer books.

"(don't play with the registry kids)"

Why? You can accomplish a lot that way if you know what you are doing, I've hacked WinME unrecognizable

Yes CodeRed, the key there is "If you know what you are doing." I thought I understood how a part of the registry worked, but obviously Windows didn't agree. :) I have done guided registry hacks, just never scucceded with my own.

It comes with 2gb drive , some weird modem , 2 cdrom drives , but no floppy. It a good machine , monitor is faulty thought.

it WAS a good machine... in 1986

It was a good machine in 1996... In 1986 the 16mhz Appple LC was the top of the line....

It works , I dont need fancy stuff to make cool programs :).

Actually you do if you are doing opengl or d3d :)

Cool programs ( from my point of view ) usually do little more graphically than write a "distributed under GNU" and "INPUT::". I like "clean" programs .... I also like csh and hate Solaris.

if you know a command line, using it to do repetative tasks can normally complete then faster than a GUI.

but it can take up to 5 seconds to type them in, it takes me less than a quarter second to double click an icon

There are things you can do in a real shell (this doesn't include the dos shell)
that you can't do in a GUI. Like write a webserver (many people have written
web servers as shell scripts). You can also perform repetetive task easily,
e.g. my cvs update script:

#!/bin/bash

exec 1>cvsup.log 2>&1

mcvsup ()
{
if [ -e ./cvsup.sh ]; then
(./cvsup.sh)
else
cvs up
fi
}

echo "CVS update script (HACK)"
echo "Updating..."

for i in *
do
if [ -d $i ] && [ $i != "CVS" ]; then
printf "===\nUpdating in $i...\n"
(cd $i && mcvsup)
fi
done

Or, for an interactive example, say I want to remove all backup
files in a dir:

rm -f *~

or created dvis from all of my latex files:

for i in $(find ~ -name \*.tex); do
latex $i;
done

etc...

Yeah tcsh and bash scripts are very powerful things , but I do actually use a Window Manager , a very simple one , which has no icons. Command is always the way to launch programs but having a windowed screen is also important. So really you cant go without console but you can miss out a think like KDE 2 or KDE 3 or Gnome.

-Vlad

I run X to runs xterms...:) As well as Konqueror 3, xmms, gaim, emacs, and xchat...but still, I do most of my real stuff in a textual context.

Me too .. pico is a must and Mozilla and Tomcat and Forte!

-Vlad

Use nano not pico!!! Free yourself or something.

I do ...

Why has this thread not been locked as yet. It has been up for more than 2 months now.!!!!!

It keeps getting new posts. I think Psion implemented some nifty per-thread locking.

It only gets locked if it doesn't have any new posts for x number of days (about 7 I think).

"Cool programs ( from my point of view ) usually do little more graphically than write a "distributed under GNU" and "INPUT::". I like "clean" programs .... I also like csh and hate Solaris"

I always get the feeling that you guys are stuck in the 80's...

I use Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 for PowerPC as my primary OS. Actually, Linux is mostly just a host for my real primary OS, which is Squeak (http://www.squeak.opg). I do most everything out of Squeak except web-browsing (the built in web-browser does about as much as lynx), which I will do in GNU/Linux with Opera 5 or Mozilla running PWM as my window manager.

Desktop: Debian Linux 2.2rev3 and Win95 OSR2.1
Laptop: Win95 OSR2.1 and RedHat 6.2
Web Server: OpenBSD 2.9
Workstation (at work): Windows XP Pro

rev, that's cool that you use squeak. I've read about squeak but never took the time to learn smalltalk.

metamorphic, you can get a linux distribution that will install in C:\linux\. That way you can reboot to use Linux and you won't have to repartition or mess with any of your Windows settings.

Mike: Yeah, I'm a big Smalltalk fan. Squeak is cool as my OS because I have control over everything. If I don't like the way something works, I change it. Kind of like Emacs, in a lot of ways, but with a little more traditional GUI look rather than just all keyboard navagation.

nice to see my thread is still going :D

Anyone want to write a system like squeak in Scheme :)

YUp Morphic.. stil going!..... I was given this computer for free.. ( Dell dimension 4300).. and it came with WINdows ME (dont Laugh!!).. (please go to my thread on BILL GATES and Microsoft).... But ne way... I plan on putting REdhat 7.3 into my system... should i dual boot it wit ME... ahhh.... ill save that for another thread......

Win XP ^_^ yesyes, I know I'm too lazy to learn Un*x, but at least everything I want is native to my OS ^_^

I use Win2000 by far the most, my main computer is Windows 2000/Linux (Dualboot) followed by the others Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows XP, Windows 98se, @ work I use win2k.

Does all this windows stuff matter ? It works let it work ....

-Vlad