I forgot, If you want, do tell us why you use that operating system.
Do tell what you use the operating system for, of course if you want.
Do tell what you use the operating system for, of course if you want.
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Santa Rosa
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I got in the first vote!! Sweet times 🙂
I've got a feeling we will get a very Mac orientated result, but it will definitely be interesting to see.
I've got a feeling we will get a very Mac orientated result, but it will definitely be interesting to see.
I use XP once a year for about half an hour. Just to do my taxes. The rest of the time is spent on my Mac's using Tiger and one machine with OS 9.
(I even play with my old IIc once in a while)
(I even play with my old IIc once in a while)
tersono
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Whoa.... I seem to have checked almost all of the boxes, and "other" covers a multitude of sins (various Win server OS's, OPENSTEP, Solaris).
Mebbe I need to get rid of some of this hardware cluttering up the place.....
...... on second thought, naaah... 😛
FWIW Leopard is my primary OS both here and at work. XP/Vista are used for the odd work-related application that is Windows only (XP mostly on native hardware, Vista under VMWare). I run a couple of Windows servers to keep my hand in (I'm a systems admin working with both Windows and Mac), I have an old G4 running Tiger server (file/media server), an old Mac Plus (just a toy, really) and a Linux box (mail/web/bitlbee servers). The solaris box is getting old, but is basically a backup for the Linux machine and OPENSTEP is "just because." =]
Mebbe I need to get rid of some of this hardware cluttering up the place.....
...... on second thought, naaah... 😛
FWIW Leopard is my primary OS both here and at work. XP/Vista are used for the odd work-related application that is Windows only (XP mostly on native hardware, Vista under VMWare). I run a couple of Windows servers to keep my hand in (I'm a systems admin working with both Windows and Mac), I have an old G4 running Tiger server (file/media server), an old Mac Plus (just a toy, really) and a Linux box (mail/web/bitlbee servers). The solaris box is getting old, but is basically a backup for the Linux machine and OPENSTEP is "just because." =]
Santa Rosa
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XP Pro: for work (in VMware Fusion on my Penryn MBP)
Win2k: In the garage on an old laptop so I can look things up, or see my car's manual when working on it.
Vista 64bit Ultimate: Wife's Laptop. I do not really use it, but I did buy it, so it counts for something.
Leopard: On the MBP
Other: FreeBSD for my server (mail web sftp etc) in my kitchen.
They would not give me the decommissioned XServe and XRaid from work. Even though it was "promised" to me as part of my severance pay. 🙁
Win2k: In the garage on an old laptop so I can look things up, or see my car's manual when working on it.
Vista 64bit Ultimate: Wife's Laptop. I do not really use it, but I did buy it, so it counts for something.
Leopard: On the MBP
Other: FreeBSD for my server (mail web sftp etc) in my kitchen.
They would not give me the decommissioned XServe and XRaid from work. Even though it was "promised" to me as part of my severance pay. 🙁
I use Leopard mainly, xp pro for gaming & to run windows only mapping software, debian etch & freebsd 6.3 on servers.
Watabou
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Mainly use leopard.
I set up bootcamp to run XP Pro for Crysis and bought VMWare to run Vista and Ubuntu 8.04. I dunno what the hype about Ubuntu is though. It seems like for everything, I have to go into the terminal. It is just so hard to use. Not user friendly at all like OS X is. Even Windows is easier to use than Ubuntu imo.
I set up bootcamp to run XP Pro for Crysis and bought VMWare to run Vista and Ubuntu 8.04. I dunno what the hype about Ubuntu is though. It seems like for everything, I have to go into the terminal. It is just so hard to use. Not user friendly at all like OS X is. Even Windows is easier to use than Ubuntu imo.
What I use.
Before, on my macbook pro, I had a triple boot system using mac 10.5 leopard with windows XP and Vista using boot camp.
I did though become tired of switching between 3 systems. Also, to my disappointment, I despised the way vista took 10 gigabytes or more on a computer where all my gigabytes count for just the operating system.
Either way, I decided to have XP as I did not see any performance gains, I would be happy if someone were to why so. Perhaps also I liked XP since I was raised with it and to me it looks more visually appealing than Vista with all its 3D improvements.
Before, on my macbook pro, I had a triple boot system using mac 10.5 leopard with windows XP and Vista using boot camp.
I did though become tired of switching between 3 systems. Also, to my disappointment, I despised the way vista took 10 gigabytes or more on a computer where all my gigabytes count for just the operating system.
Either way, I decided to have XP as I did not see any performance gains, I would be happy if someone were to why so. Perhaps also I liked XP since I was raised with it and to me it looks more visually appealing than Vista with all its 3D improvements.
Leopard mainly, have XP for emergencies on BootCamp and Linux on my Asus eeePC.
Can't stand any of them apart from OS X to be frank...
Can't stand any of them apart from OS X to be frank...
I'm running Gentoo Linux on my colo and local servers, Windows Vista x64 on my custom quad core desktop box (I had osx86 on there, haven't gotten around to setting up dual boot), Leopard on a crappy emachines box I got for $50 on black friday, XP Pro on my laptop, Windows Mobile on my cellphone. Soon to be Leopard + Vista x64 on my laptop (when I get my MBP).
I primarily use Leopard but during school exam periods I boot into Boot Camp (XP Pro) to use the exam software.
i made a mistake in my vote 😛
anyway....
Vista32SP1 - bootcamp games
Leopard - actually do work, video editing, music
XPSP3 (Parallels) - old games basically anything i can get to work in it .... the snapshots thing is greeeat
anyway....
Vista32SP1 - bootcamp games
Leopard - actually do work, video editing, music
XPSP3 (Parallels) - old games basically anything i can get to work in it .... the snapshots thing is greeeat