On your home computer. Just to get an idea. :)
Also tell us why you like it / don't like it.

I myself am running Windows XP since this week & am very happy with it. Especially the look !! Oh my god, those XP themes ROCK !! :cool:

I have thought about getting Linux, but due to incompatibility of several software titles that I use, I have to delay this option. :(

Kind regards,

Thomas
thomas.k@genius-hosting.com

EDIT: DAMN ! I forgot to add XP and I can't modify the poll!
Mods: please edit 'Windows 2000' to 'Windows 2000/XP' please?
Thank you! So XP'ers, vote 2000 please ;)

i am running win2k pro.

its ok, but i dont' have much choice, yet. :(

Why not?

because I have many software developed in visual studio (I was VS programmer) and now I can not convert them to php, perl on fly so have to use windows.

may be lindows will be a good choice. let it release. ;)

nothing beats win2k.

I have winxp pro, win2k pro and slackware 8 installed on multi-booting. Nothing beats 2k pro. not xp, not slack. not for me at least.

On my personal system I run several operating systems. I use Romtec TRIOS hard drive selector(s) to keep the operating systems physically isolated from each other. So, instead of having several operating systems on one hard drive (on some machines I do that too), on my personal use/learning machine, I have...

Windows 2000 Professional
FreeBSD 4.5 Release
Red Hat 6.2
Red Hat 7.2
Mandrake 8.1
and whatever else I want to install and play with (like OpenBSD).

With the RomtecTRIOS, I simply hit a button for what hard drive (and thus OS) I want to boot from, then power up. To the computer, that's the ONLY hard drive (and thus OS) on the machine.

This way, keeping one OS per hard drive, I can experiment with different partitioning schemes and that sort of thing. Whatever I do for one OS will not affect any other OS. Likewise, if I were to get a virus or something -- or trash something and need to start over -- I can just power down, push a button for another OS, power back up and have a "fresh" OS to work with.

Learning *nix, this set up works well for me. Link to TRIOS:

http://www.romtecusa.com/start.htm

Best $50 component I put in my new system that I build to learn *nix on New Year's Day.

I might get VMware too. With this I can have all the OSs up simultaneously (limited to RAM and disk space). I'm thinking when I get into really learning networking in depth, this will be a nice learning tool; one can network between the various virtual machines running under VMware. Virtual clusters, anyone?


I have a nice, easy to work on Lian-Li PC-70 case with lots of drive bays; so it's easy to swap components in and out.

So, I voted "other" since one is limited to one vote.

Take care,

Louis

at home I'm running W2k... at work I use NT4 and at home I have as alternate system Slackware installed... just for playing around... I don't know Linux that well yet!

I ditched Windows over a year ago when it was giving me nothing but headaches. So one day I said screw it and installed Slackware Linux. I've learned SO MUCH by using Linux exclusively.

I've tried a couple of other Linux distributions but don't really like them. Mandrake looks like it's made for kids. It tries to handle everything for you and does nothing but get in my way. SuSE is bloated with software that I don't need. Sifting through 6,000 packages isn't exactly fun.

My current uptime:
7:38am up 88 days, 7:26, 0 users, load average: 0.04, 0.03, 0.00

I'm down to only one machine left running winbloat, just convereted my personal machine over to Linux Mandrake 8.1 (pulling the 8.2 distro as I type this) Maybe by this weekend i will be FREE of the evil that is winbloat.

Although i did enjoy running Windows 2000 pro and Server for a while, so I can't say i hate ALL windows products.

studio = win2k pro (it's the best windows os and NTFS is required, which was needed for the software).

killerbee = win98 (laptop have had for years. don't want to upgrade).

intel = my workstation, win2k pro (same reasons as studio)

menes = win ME, well that's my housemate's computer

linux = uh, that machine is running rh 6.2 Linux for devel

plague = firewall, not saying what's on this machine. :)

devel = rh 7.2 installing right now (well when i get a chance), for testing and devel. Did have NetMAX Linux on it.

I voted for win2k, since it wins by majority until i get devel going.

I'm running Win2k Pro on my home machine, and this will be as far as I go on Windows unless M$ matures XP. (Ive heard many issues with several of the programs I use on XP.)

I have a laptop that was running WinME, so I formatted it and now its running Win98 SE...

I also have an old 16MHz... (yes... 16 MHz) with a whopping 7MB of RAM and a huge 50MB HD... Its running win 3.1 and is still kicking.

Win2k Pro - happy with it; it's stable, it does the job i want it to, it manages resources pretty well, it doesn't complain when i do heavy multitasking and it plays most games :)

I can live without the gui gimmicks of XP ;)

That's the PC I'm on now. My linux machine is a little slower so I don't use it as much,

-Matt

Work - Mac OS
Work2 - Win2k Server
Dev - Win2k Server
Dev2 - Redhat 6.2 (my 7.2 CD is screwed)

RedHat 7.1....

I refuse to run Windows... and I rarely touch the machines at school since they run Win2k.

Why do I doubt anyone is running Solaris on their home comp?

Hi,

Some folks might indeed run solaris on their home machine.

Since some folks need to know it for work -- or know it because they use it at work; thus they might indeed have it installed on their home machine. Up to version 8.0 it does run on x86 hardware.

Take care,

Louis

Voodoo [Primary Element]: Windows XP Professional (Corporate/Enterprise)

Super64 [Secondary Element]: Windows XP Professional (Corporate/Enterprise)

Paolita [Mobile Element]: Windows XP Home Edition

Sun Tzu [Testing Element]: Windows Millennium Edition

Originally posted by Jeff Rambo
Sun Tzu [Testing Element]: Windows Millennium Edition

:D Named after the author of 'The Art of War'
A handy book to read if you need to work with Win ME for any period of time...

Greg Moore

Originally posted by akashik
A handy book to read if you need to work with Win ME for any period of time...

Good one, lol ...

I run Win2K pro for the WIndows GUI, and to use Visual Studio, PhotoShop, Lightwave, Music/Sound production/mixing/mastering, etc., plus things for ASP, MsMsql, Access and Office 2000 Pro -- so I can test and trouble shoot client issues on the server, when they complain about Frontpage, etc. I try and keep it so I can emulate and test things from their point of view.

However, I also run;

NT Server 4.0 (which I need to install again, for another boot option).

Linux Slackware 8, Linux Redhat 6.0, 6.2, 7.0, 7.2, Linux Mandrake, Linux Debian, Linux SuSe, Linux Caldera (0penLinux), as well as OpenBSD, NetBSD and FreeBSD.

I have a few systems I run one or more of these on, but I have them all on one multi-boot system (15 boot option -- how many people do this? People think I'm over the top with doing it, but I've got 3 drives and 80 GIG's to partition out, I'm going to use it!) too (which is pretty much the only system I use, unless I am using the systems on the network). So, I've got everything I want, other than Solaris (and I want a Sun box, not ran on an X86). I don't care for Mac's, at all, but I'm sure there's people that run a lot of other stuff, including IRIX, SGI, etc.

xp

- Mandrake Linux 8.1 as the main o/s
- WinME running under VMware under Mandrake whenever I need to do some work in Windows
- Another WinME on another partition for games
- On another box I got various version of RedHat for development

So, I pick 'other linux' as mandrake is my primary o/s.

Windows 98
I am to cheap to upgrade :)

You mean, you don't have the money to upgrade? :D
Ever heard of "warez" ? Or copy the CD from a friend or so... I don't know. ;)

Peace out :cool:

Win2K on my laptop; FreeBSD at home.

I keep more or less everything important on the FreeBSD box, the laptop is mostly just a portable SSH terminal.

XP Pro. I switched from W2K about 3 months ago and I find XP very stable.

Windows ME :rolleyes:

Oh yeah, I forgot to tell:
so XP Pro at home, but also WIN 98 SE at the office, WIN ME at home and WIN 95 (!) also at home (running on a 150MHz :D).

Yep... 3 computers at home. :)
Life's a beauty. :D