08-17-2003, 10:07 PM | #1 (permalink) |
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Location: LV-426
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Operating systems...my secret love.
I've been this way since I was a kid with a Commodore Amiga. I love operating systems. My wife considers it almost a sickness; she is perfectly happy running one and the same Windows on the computer year in year out - I am not. I switch to the latest Windows as soon as it is out, I always install updates and patches when available...latest DirectX, latest WM apps and shit... I try out Linux distros, various other free OSs. I LOVED OS/2 Warp back in the day.
I install a copy of Windows, and a few months later I find myself feeling like wiping the HD clean and installing something else on it again. Perhaps Linux and XP both? Or 2k Server instead of XP? It's sick. I know. Speaking of OSs...which would you rather run - Windows 2000 Server, or XP Pro?
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08-18-2003, 02:33 AM | #4 (permalink) |
In Your Dreams
Location: City of Lights
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I'm the same way with OS's.. always have to change, try something new (or old) and different. About a year ago we installed OS/2 Warp 4 on a box here.. just to play with it.. that brought back some memories!
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08-18-2003, 06:20 AM | #5 (permalink) |
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Location: Oxford, UK
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I guess I'm moving towards XP - it's quite pretty and has some nice extras. However, I still really like 2000 Pro ("really" in terms of "much better than 98 or 95"). Give me RISC OS any day - if anyone here has heard of it!
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08-18-2003, 07:06 AM | #6 (permalink) |
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Location: Within GMT+10
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I would rather use neither of those listed. I think the reason becomes quite obvious when I give a basic list of the operating systems I can find around this house:
Linux (debian, mostly) FreeBSD NetBSD (sparc) OpenBSD (sparc) Solaris SunOS (4.1.4, before it became solaris, the sysV derivative) Ultrix (Yes, really, it's on a decstation 5000/150) Irix HPUX OpenVMS (both VAX and Alpha) OS/400 (running on an AS400 9404 F10) I'm sure that I've missed something in there. But as can be seen, I'm a collector of obscure hardware and software. |
08-18-2003, 10:54 AM | #7 (permalink) | |
Knight of the Old Republic
Location: Winston-Salem, NC
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08-19-2003, 12:44 PM | #13 (permalink) | |
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Location: Michigan
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Re: Operating systems...my secret love.
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I've run pretty much every version of windows since 3.1, so seeing where windows is today is nice, but annoying with all the viruses/holes. As for other distros, I usually have 1 or 2 linux distros installed at once for when I'm bored. Except for those times when I'm not paying attention, and reading the help docs to closely and I do a mke2fs /dev/hda1 which is what the manual said, but happened to be my XP partition That was a sad day. |
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