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| View Poll Results: How many of these Operating Systems have you used? | |||
| AIX |
   
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1 | 3.70% |
| Amiga |
  
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5 | 18.52% |
| BeOS |
  
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3 | 11.11% |
| Darwin |
  
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2 | 7.41% |
| FreeBSD |
  
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5 | 18.52% |
| FreeDOS |
  
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2 | 7.41% |
| GNU/Hurd |
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1 | 3.70% |
| HP-UX |
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2 | 7.41% |
| IRIX |
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0 | 0% |
| JavaOS |
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2 | 7.41% |
| Linux |
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17 | 62.96% |
| Mac OS X |
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8 | 29.63% |
| Microsoft Windows |
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26 | 96.30% |
| MINIX |
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1 | 3.70% |
| MS-DOS |
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15 | 55.56% |
| NetBSD |
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3 | 11.11% |
| OpenBSD |
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3 | 11.11% |
| Palm OS |
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4 | 14.81% |
| QNX |
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1 | 3.70% |
| SkyOS |
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0 | 0% |
| Solaris |
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4 | 14.81% |
| TRON |
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1 | 3.70% |
| Tru64 |
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0 | 0% |
| Other (please specify) |
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1 | 3.70% |
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Friday, April 21st, 2006
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How many of these Operating Systems have you used?
These are the most popular Operating Systems according to this site, I'm sorry if I left any.
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Saturday, April 22nd, 2006
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Re: How many of these Operating Systems have you used?
Microsoft Windows, MS-DOS (forgot that one in the poll), Unix and that's all.
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Thursday, June 15th, 2006
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Re: How many of these Operating Systems have you used?
Both Debian Linux (good, fastest disk operations, big flexibility and other benefits of Linux-based systems) and Windows.
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Friday, June 16th, 2006
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Re: How many of these Operating Systems have you used?
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Friday, June 16th, 2006
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AIX, IBM's SysVr4 Unix flavour for their RS/6000 machines (running on a RISC PowerPC processor). I have one such machine still at home, running AIX.
FreeBSD, a BSD Unix flavour, the most stable for Intel-based processors. This one would be my suggestion to anyone wanting to run a Unix machine, even if only as a desktop. Linux. Not an Operating System but just a kernel. The OS ensamblers are not the same as the kernel developers. I've used a number of Linux-based OS: - Slackware: this was my first Linux distribution (OS in Linux parlance) many years ago. At the time the way to install was a bit painful: you had to download two image disks and dump them (not through the copy utility) into two 3.5 floppy disks; first you had to download the dump utility for windoze. If I recall correctly one image disk was the kernel and the other included some basic utilities and software. The rest of the OS and other software had to be downloaded later. - Debian: together with Slackware, one of the best Linux distributions. The main differences with Slackware were: (1) Slackware was a one man project, whereas Debian was an open team project; and (2) although both were like all other Linux OSs a clones of Unix SysVr4, Slackware's init system was in the style of BSD (Berkeley Software Distribution) and Debian's in the style of SysVr4 (AT&T's System 5 release 4). - brief encounters with Red Hat and derived distributions.. never liked it/them. Mac OS X: a BSD based Mac's own system for their PowerPC machines. Very nice, but expensive machines. MS Windows: from the times of Windows 3.1 to the upgrade to 3.1.1. What I liked then was the hardware upgrades.. I still have one Intel 486 SX @33MHz processor with an overdrive to DX @66MHz  Windows was not an OS either, but a graphical interface to an OS (MS-DOS). After 3.1.1 I got into Linux and then Unix, and missed all 95, 98, 2000, etc.. until this sh*t of XP. Minix: LOL! I still have one IBM 8088 (the firsts Personal Computers) that I inherited, and where I installed Minix just for the fun of it. I never did much with it, just playing. Minix was not conceived as a proper OS for public use, but as a minimal and simple rewrite of Unix for students to learn with it on PCs (i.e. on non-Unix machines). I also have memories of a technician doing some work on the machine.. installing some WP or programming some small thins in Basic... and wearing a white lab coat!!!  I thought that there was voodoo inside or something.. nowadays when you open that 8088 in the inside it looks simple and almost rudimentary. MS-DOS: Well, yes. Ran my first and last game on computers.. Civilization. Oh.. and my first at home internet experiences.. chatting through telnet logging and a bit of ftp.. at 14.4Kbps.. took ages waiting to come through the screen!!! It was simple, but at least it was much more stable than any windows interface/OS has ever beein. NetBSD: I installed it a couple of times on some old and weird machines that I got from second hand. OpenBSD: A great BSD Unix and the most secure OS without a doubt.. and most stable. I used it as a desktop machine for a long time. I prefered it even to FreeBSD, although the software from third parties implemented wasn't much.. I didn't need much either anyway.. in fact I didn't even bother with the X-Window system much and used the console most of the time. Solaris: A SysVr4 Unix. I had it on a Sun Sparc machine. Great machines.. but terribly expensive. One thing that I liked much was its version of the CDE, the Unix Common Desktop (on top of the X-Window system). KDE on BSD was fantastic, but I missed the simplicity, good functionality and stability of CDE. I forgot to tick "Others": IBM PC-DOS: before MS-DOS.. came with the 8088. VAX: at University. Actually, not directly on a VAX machine and OS but through an internal network remote logging from a PC running some Unix.. I think. Most big software (stats, etc.) were on the VAX machines.
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Friday, June 16th, 2006
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I am currently giving Kubuntu 6.06 (a Debian derivate with KDE desktop) a try. Unfortunately Linux is still crap as far as scanning, OCR, DTP, video editing, receiving digital versatile broadcasts and such are concerned. And for some reason Sylpheed does not import my MBX Unix format mailboxes from Eudora.
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Sunday, August 27th, 2006
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This Ubuntu seems to be getting very popular. Am I missing something?
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accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem: hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris, et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.' We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato–
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Sunday, August 27th, 2006
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And the best part is that it's completely free, they even send the CD for free if you can not write the disk yourself.
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Sunday, August 27th, 2006
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So it takes away all the fun of the command line..
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accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem: hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris, et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.' We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato–
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Sunday, August 27th, 2006
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Workspaces? I assume that it uses KDE as the default desktop interface? I used to like CDE on Solaris for its simplicity. KDE I found it heavy.. as if bloated. But still it reminded me enough of CDE so I never got to use Gnome.
For the command line, I much prefer a virtual terminal than an xterm window. Does Ubuntu or Debian have the possibility of switching through VTs? It works with CTRL+ALT+Function key on BSDs.
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accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem: hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris, et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.' We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light. –Plato–
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Sunday, August 27th, 2006
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