Thread: Which OS Are You Running ?

My desktop dual boots either Win7 or Mint Linux, my laptop has Win8

I was a late starter with Linux, and only installed Red Hat 3.0.3 ("Picasso") in September 1996, on my home computer; at work, I installed Red Hat 4.0 ("Colgate") a month later, and kept up with newer versions through 9.0 ("Shrike"), and then Fedora Core 1 ("Yarrow") in early-2004. I continued running Fedora Core at home, through version 5 ("Bordeaux"), dabbled with Debian and Ubuntu, had a year-long "flirtation" with MacOS X 10.4 ("Tiger"), then moved to Linux Mint 5 ("Elyssa"). I kept up with Linux Mint releases through version 11 ("Katya"), but stopped upgrading when they moved to the Gnome 3 desktop (I quit KDE when it moved to version 4). I continue running Linux Mint 11 on my netbook, but recently installed Linux Mint 13 ("Maya") on my home computer (still the same dual 1.4GHz PIII, since I built it in 2001).

But I began with my roommate's TRS-80, in 1977, followed by an Apple II, in 1981. After that, it was a Fortune 32:16 word-processing system, and then, in 1988, a Sun Microsystems 3/60 workstation, running SunOS/3.2 -- the 4.2BSD Unix operating system.

PS: JimmyHAD has it "OS-backwards" -- he shouldn't be running Microsoft Windows on his laptop, even if he did pay for it (although he claims he never paid for it)

Hi,
I'm using Linux for a few years now also, LinuxMint 12 on the destop and Fedora 14 on the laptop. Also RokBox on my IPod.Sure is a high percentage of Linuxers here.

Mint and Debian on my laptops, Cyanogenmod on my tablet. I like to play with little linux distros on thumb drives.

Charlie

Started with commodore and then xt, went through several dos versions from 2.1 to 5 something, os2, most windows versions from 3.11 to XP, while playing with dual boots to an assortment of Linux flavors like suse and redhat. A few years back decided to go pure Linux with no windows dual boot,Currently running Ubuntu, though I think my next install will be mint. Wouldn't be surprised at all if a poll showed a higher percentage of Linux OSs than average, people who accept a longer learning curve to get better performance and control tend to do so in more than one field of life...

Mint 16 mostly at home but I do have windows 7 as a dual boot. I have a laptop with some small version of Linux (linuxbox?) since it has windows ME on it. At work I am stuck with windows, but they are XP and 7 so it is not too bad.

Windows 8.1 - like it much more than 8.
Osx Mavericks.
RaspBMC and Raspian on the Rasberry Pi.
Squeezeplay and Xubuntu on the Joggler.

Previously used SGI Unix and Linux distributions but made the switch to Osx and haven't looked back.

All gentoo (and a variant, funtoo, on a couple of boxen) here, switched my last slackware server to gentoo last year. I have never been a fan of debian & descendants.

rs,
Tack

OS X 10.7, Windows 7, XP, and a dual boot Vista/Linux Zorin.

This is an interesting thread...
I started with FORTRAN V in HS working in a Work/Study program at Goddard SFC...remembering that in meetings the guys with the slide rules were the ones giving the quick answers...(Think: water cooler computers that went on for ever, with a whopping 128K...)
Moved to Mac/OSx a few years ago and my life is simpler...
In between...let's just say I'm glad that there are people who like to keep this stuff working...all the best to all of you..