What OS do you use? At work we use Windows XP, but at home I have a mix of Windows OS including ME, XP home, and 2000. I have been tinkering with the idea of making my desktop at home have either a dual boot or total Linux machine.
I have played with various distros like Ubuntu and DSL, but never have I installed a full retail version. The ones that I like the best right now (and price is a factor)are Xandros and Suse. Does anyone have experience with thes or other retail Linux distros?
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I currently run Windows 2000/XP/98 at work. I have been toying with the idea of setting up a Red Hat Linux box just to learn a little. You can download ISO (CD) images from the link below. They call their test platform "Fedora". Better have a fast Internet connection, though, as each image is ~650 MB.
I had an old version of Red Hat quite some years ago and found that it was widely supported. I'm sure there's even more info available now.
All my desktops and servers are FreeBSD. One office PC running Xp and one running Vista. No Linux anywhere in the mix! All home PC's run FreeBSD.
Have played with CentOS (and just about every other major distro) and is by far my favorite Linux distro (though I don't really like any of them). As a beginner I would check out either Suse or CentOS.
XP on most my PCs, 98 on a couple old ones and Linux in the Astrisk box and one other learning machine. Also have a dos machine setup I still use once in a while
Mostly XP, some 2K pro, 2K server ,2K advanced server machines, Centos and yes OS/2 Warp4 voicemail. Have a couple or relics that multiboot Win98, Dos or OS/2. Used to have to boot OS/2 to run Poly/Pm or RSM to access Compass CEO voicemails, but haven't needed it since Y2K.
I have just about all of the OS's setup in various VMs. I started using VMs a while back and with the portability of them you cant beat it. I have found the best way to do this is to install a 64 bit version of Linux (I use CentOS) and install all the windows as VMs. I have noticed NO speed decrease by doing this. I recommend using at least 1.5 megs of RAM and a 2.8 gig Duo Core processor. If you just want to play download Knoppix and it works great.
I have a computer at my desk that is dual boot with windows XP and Debian Linux, I have a computer in my work room that runs SUSE Linux and another one that dual boots SUSE Linux and Windows XP. I have a server running Debian Linux with no GUI installed, and I have a laptop dual booting with Windows XP and Fedora Core Linux. I prefer the options and power I have with the Linux OS's, but this is a Windows dependent world we live in. Try and get Samsung Offiserve software to run on a *nix OS. That is the only reason I have dual boot computers around at all. With all the virus and spyware apps written for windows it is too much hassle. Granted having my own business doing computer repairs I make a lot of money off of windows so I don't regret its existence by any means, but there are two things that make me cash when they get combined: 1) something labeled as "FREE" on the internet and 2) someone on a windows machine that finds and installs it.
When I die, I want to go peacefully in my sleep like my grandfather, not screaming and panicking like the passengers in his car.
I run FreeBSD on most systems, with a single multi-boot system running XP/NetBSD/FreeBSD, and a plamtop running NetBSD.
My router at home is a FreeBSD box, as are my mail/web server, file server, workstation (3 heads), several scratch boxes, and my trusty old laptop.
I have one box running CentOS/TrixBox at home, and a couple more in the networking lab at school, along with a pair of workstations running FreeBSD and Fedora core 5.
Still to come: some flavor of linux/unix+MythTV for DVR usage.
Recently switched to debian/ubuntu from XP. I have little no idea what Im doing with my terminal, suffice to say I use ls alot and here an there an apt-get, but the learning curve is holding me from really sinking my teeth in. Ill get it but i could benefit from a class or three. I like the trim supportive environment of linux versus the bloatware boxes of blue death.
I replaced the dead hard drive on my old xps 500 dell with a 130 gig drive and then maxed out the memory. The baby is running now with XP pro with extra problems.
Still got windows 95 on my old Toshiba laptop with a 10 gig hard drive running DOS based billing software with an Okidata tractor feed for invoices. Yup, Im still using Phonebizz software on that baby. My other Junk Laptop I can't complain cause I got it for free is running windows 2000.
We use Windows XP and Server 2003 with Exchange. All my laptops are using XP Pro as I need Windows to work on my phone systems. I also have a training server with MS Small Business Server as we have a large install base of these.
1) something labeled as "FREE" on the internet and 2) someone on a windows machine that finds and installs it
Ain't that the truth. I completly stopped working on home PC's and will not dispatch a tech to work on any because of this. My business customers are all educated on the free stuff.
XP Pro SP2 at home (LOVE IT after W98) Dos 6.2 on Toshiba 4500 'Armstrong' portable Dos 6.2 on Compaq 286LTE laptop. Company supplies P'sonic toughbooks with XP pro. John C.
When I was young, I was Liberal. As I aged and wised up, I became Conservative. Now that I'm old, I have settled on Curmudgeon.
So far, Vista has performed well. My only complaint is the driver issue from Dell, but I am working on resolving that. I will keep XP on my kids machine until I figure out how to get ALL my GOOD software working on Vista.
OS/2 Warp4 voicemail. Have a couple or relics that multiboot Win98, Dos or OS/2. Used to have to boot OS/2 to run Poly/Pm or RSM to access Compass CEO voicemails, but haven't needed it since Y2K.
