Thread: Which OS Are You Running ?

I too started with FORTRAN and Basic. Now using Windows XP (soon not to be supported) and whatever is on my IPad (don't even know as I don't have to worry about it.

John

Originally Posted by hoodoo40

I too started with FORTRAN and Basic. Now using Windows XP (soon not to be supported) and whatever is on my IPad (don't even know as I don't have to worry about it.

John

You likely already know this but Windows 7 will run just as well as XP on some truly ancient machines. I have a 12 year old Dell laptop with 1GB of RAM that runs Windows 7 and have had no problems. Of course, there are some initial driver issues but the software "Driver Identifier" will scan your hardware and find them for you - took about an hour extra to install with this process.

Perhaps something to bare im mind when the time comes.

Bodhi Linux.....huh....... looks like I am the odd one out here. Very light weight distro. I use mocp from terminal (terminator)to play all my music, alsaequal, etc. for streaming.Great on old boxes, uses very little resources. Quit windows when Bill made his tenth billion.

W7, and W8

Originally Posted by Christel

You likely already know this but Windows 7 will run just as well as XP on some truly ancient machines. I have a 12 year old Dell laptop with 1GB of RAM that runs Windows 7 and have had no problems. Of course, there are some initial driver issues but the software "Driver Identifier" will scan your hardware and find them for you - took about an hour extra to install with this process.

Perhaps something to bare im mind when the time comes.

+1

My 1999 425 MHz Gateway runs XP just fine.

Dave

I played with Linux years back. Used both Red Hat and Mandrake.
I really enjoyed command line type activities helped along with my Unix Companion book.
Amazing what 'real computing' is like.

Now I'm a Windows guy at work and Mac at home. Maverick OSX.

Windows millennium 4 life!

Interesting thread!

I started playing with computers in the late 80's / early 90's with something like an 8086 or 386 that my father had at home (I never knew what it was exactly, but to my defense, I wasn't even 10 y.o. back then...), it was running ms-dos and an early version of windows 1.x/2.x; all I remember is the original file manager and Tetris, all on a green monochromatic screen. Then windows 3.1 on a 486. Then Win98 on a Pentium something. Then XP when I went to college and university; during that time I played with some Linux distro in dual boot with XP: Red Hat, Debian, Ubuntu, Slackware, etc, mostly to learn them and play with, but never did anything with these, motsly due to lack of decent software, also all the games were on Windows.

These days, I run windows 7 on my work laptop while 80% of the company runs on Macs and 2-3% on Linux in the software dev team. At first, they tried to convert me and gave me a Mac Book Pro, but two weeks later I was about to trow it out the window so...
At home I still run XP, I simply don't have the time to do a fresh install with Win7.

Cheers.

IOS 7.0.6 ----> I am using an Apple iPhone 5.

Started with some form of Basic on the Commodore 64, then Dos version ? on the 286.
After that, I suffered through each version of Windows starting with 2.X and ending with 7 (Remember the joke that was Win ME?)