Thread: Whats your OS?

I use ubuntu on my desktop and laptop and netbook. Have also put a variant of ubuntu on the wifes machine... Woop. I do virtualise windows for development when needed.

Geek

I have a Macbook Pro at the moment - it has Mountain Lion on it (after a weekend lost to the vagaries of recovery partitions and IT technicians who apparently do not know how to partition a hard drive correctly). I run CentOS and Fedora 17 and Windows XP (for work purposes) as virtual machines in that environment using Parallels, and I have an old school X windows environment I like to use for old time's sake rattling around on there as well via Macports.

My home machine dual boots Windows 7 and Gentoo. I would spend most of my time in a Linux distro if I could, but work requires me to have one or both of the mainstream OSes.

James.

I'm JimmyHAD's sysadmin. I started working with the Unix command line in 1984, as a technical writer using a dedicated DTP system (Fortune), and moved to full-time Unix systems administration in 1988 (SunOS/2.x on Sun-2/50 and -3/60 workstations). I installed RedHat Linux @home in 1996 -- until then, I'd been using a VT100 terminal to connect via modem to the Unix-based servers at work (first at 2400 baud, later at 9600 baud). My last job was riding-herd on a couple of Linux-based clusters (RHEL/5) at a university R&D center.

I've been running Linux Mint on my personal workstation and netbook; currently, LM 11 (Katya) on both, but I began with LM 4. I used to use KDE, but moved to Gnome when KDE left v3.5 for v4.x. I'm holding at LM 11 because of Gnome 3 -- I won't give up on Gnome 2 (mine is themed for the MacOS X look-and-feel, using Mac4Lin and the Avant Window Manager).



Almost from the get-go, the Unix OS had a command-line interface and a GUI -- SunOS had SunTools, which soon became SunView, which begat OpenWindows (which gave the X Windowing System a run-for-its-money, before SMCC [Sun Microsystems] caved-in, but that's another story). In my earlier Linux days -- before there were "Desktop Environments", like Gnome/KDE -- I ran much simpler "window managers" (some were "virtual window managers", which offered multiple workspaces) -- TWM/VTWM and FVWM/FVWM2/FVWM95 were favorites of mine. If you want an idea about How Things Were before Gnome/KDE, take a look at Window Managers for X.

Update: Apropos lightweight window managers, here's a link to a new (8/16/12) article in Linux Weekly News about such a Linux distribution.

Originally Posted by razorguy

Sounds great! I will certainly do that on my next Android app. The one I am developing now is about to be released and testing is over.

When it does release, left us know the name!

XPpro at home and that DAMNABLE Win7 at work.

Oh, did I say I HATE Win7?

I have long been a fan of Slackware Linux, being more true to traditional UNIX. I have had a system running at home for years. Of course I have a win XP machine for everyone else in the family.

At work, most of my work if balanced between Win 7 enterprise, win 2k8 server r2, HPUX 11I v1,2, and 3, CentOS 5 and 6, and AIX. I wear a lot of hats and get constant exposure to many OS's . It is interesting to see the different approaches to development among the platforms. It is sad that they can't make more standards in the Linux world. The distros are all so different. I personally think the OS should be standardized and the rest should just be value add by the vendor.

My only issue with Linux is that if you have a bad combo of hardware, it is a bear to get to work!!!!!!!!!!
I have a after market video and a 22 inch TV as a monitor and half of the screen won't show up! I have been typing in commands for weeks and nothing will work!!!!

That's my only issue, but that can be fixed with the right knowledge.

Latest MacOS for home and work but I need to learn Linux and Android like ASAP for work.

I was an XP user for many years but then I bought a brand new lappy with Vista pre-installed. Couldn't get XP to work on it, half the applications I was used to didn't work on it, so I decided to give GNU/Linux a try and never looked back. Started with Ubuntu until Mark Shuttleworth snorted some space coke and puked up Unity desktop environment and switched over to Mint. Running 11 on my media center (music/video playback over HDMI without any issues, using XBMC)

Only gets controlled by the remote control unless my wife wants to play her karaoke game or watch a video that's NOT on youtube.

My regular desktop is running Mint 13 with Cinnamon, my work machine is running LUbuntu (only needs web, VoIP and a desktop client) and I also bought a used IBM T23 to experiment with PBX packages on top of CentOS.

My wife uses Windows 7.

Windows 8 promises even more converts to GNU/Linux than Vista - The hardware manufacturers are already getting crackin' on Linux drivers and even Steam has a stable Linux implementation in the works (the only downer is that it's being marketed for Ubuntu - the distribution whose majority of users doesn't even know that they're using a GNU/Linux operating system - a Mac user is more likely to know how to open the Terminal than a Ubuntu user).

Originally Posted by FiReSTaRT

I was an XP user for many years but then I bought a brand new lappy with Vista pre-installed. Couldn't get XP to work on it, half the applications I was used to didn't work on it, so I decided to give GNU/Linux a try and never looked back. Started with Ubuntu until Mark Shuttleworth snorted some space coke and puked up Unity desktop environment and switched over to Mint. Running 11 on my media center (music/video playback over HDMI without any issues, using XBMC)

Only gets controlled by the remote control unless my wife wants to play her karaoke game or watch a video that's NOT on youtube.

My regular desktop is running Mint 13 with Cinnamon, my work machine is running LUbuntu (only needs web, VoIP and a desktop client) and I also bought a used IBM T23 to experiment with PBX packages on top of CentOS.

My wife uses Windows 7.

Windows 8 promises even more converts to GNU/Linux than Vista - The hardware manufacturers are already getting crackin' on Linux drivers and even Steam has a stable Linux implementation in the works (the only downer is that it's being marketed for Ubuntu - the distribution whose majority of users doesn't even know that they're using a GNU/Linux operating system - a Mac user is more likely to know how to open the Terminal than a Ubuntu user).

I'm not very excited for windows 8. I think it is too touch oriented rather than a mouse and keyboard... Ill stick to the alpha of Ubuntu 12.12