What OS do you use?

Right now im running windows xp since this isnt my computer, and I dont want to repartition the disk since ill loose all my mom's data, but I kinda wanna install openBSD and compile mad shit off the ports tree.

just use grub or lilo to dual boot windows and openBSD. google it, its EASY

BSD is for fags.  Linux or GTFO.
In before macfags and BSD fags and people saying shit about Linux, and people saying shit about people who say shit about Linux, and shit about me, and every meme in existence, infinity +1 squared.

There is nothing wrong with BSD it is more unixlike than linux, and I cant dual boot 2 oses if i have windows xp filling up the ENTIRE harddisk, i could theoretically download a partition resizer but so far i havent found a good  one and i dont want to download a whole knoppix live cd

Solaris or die.  Lunix is for fags.

>>1
Can't you add another hard disk to the system?  They're cheap as fuck, especially when you get the older ones, like a 20 or 40GB.  Just install another hard disk, grub/lilo the first one, and then load BSD (or some LinFaggotry) onto the 2nd hard disk, ext3 and all.

Listen to poster #2.  It IS easy.  And we'd be happy to assist you (except the Hanssen script, which from the source code I have, seems intentionally constipated and has a high hate level set as a constant).

well the thing is that its not my computer, oh and i dont have ANY money at all... literally i dont even have a penny. lol

oh and i dont really need to be assisted im sure i can figure it out, as ive been using computers ever since the old DOS days before windows 95 came out, and everyone was obsessed with windows 3.1, although I had an IBM Portable Personal Computer which I miss and want back.

I'm running a 333mhz processor with 256mb ram.

The sound card is designed for Windows 95

The video card is 16mg ram.

It's running Windows 2000.

I need Dos back

Arch Linux, because Solaris is mostly communityless fail, as is Free/Open/NetBSD

Also the BSD kernel is generally slower than Linux 2.6: http://bulk.fefe.de/scalability/

PC-BSD which is easier to use than 99% of Linux distros.

I use the GNU system. 1) GNU+Hurd is usable 2) GNU+Hurd is still incomplete

Well, I use Gentoo. So? I don't see any problem. I embraced my Gentoo distro long ago and I am happy together with my workstation (that is a stage 1 box!). I have a fucking lot of ebuilds in and outside of portage and my CFLAGS are pretty optimized and solid.

But thanks anyway asshole. Go and use your stupid Debian while I EMERGE new ebuilds

>>12
They already implemented the GUN Hurd in Emacs.  Get with the times already.

I don't use an operating system.  My old computer has a machine language monitor built in and any time I want the computer to do something I write an assembly program real quick and use BIOS calls.  Sometimes when I'm feeling raucous I'll write my programs down, but only on rare occasions.

Mac OS X Tiger

Linux hiyono 2.6.22.1-old-qla2xxx #7 SMP Fri Jul 27 02:31:31 UTC 2007 sparc64 sun4u TI UltraSparc III+ (Cheetah+) GNU/Linux

It's a Sun Blade 2000 with 2xUltraSPARC IIIcu 900MHz 8mb cache. Distro is Gentoo/~sparc

$ uname -a
Linux hiyono 2.6.22.2-grsec-old-qla2xxx #1 SMP Fri Aug 10 07:47:24 UTC 2007 sparc64 sun4u TI UltraSparc III+ (Cheetah+) GNU/Linux
$ cat /proc/cpuinfo
cpu             : TI UltraSparc III+ (Cheetah+)
fpu             : UltraSparc III+ integrated FPU
prom            : OBP 4.16.4 2004/12/18 05:18
type            : sun4u
ncpus probed    : 2
ncpus active    : 2
D$ parity tl1   : 0
I$ parity tl1   : 0
Cpu0Bogo        : 10.27
Cpu0ClkTck      : 0000000035a4e900
Cpu1Bogo        : 10.37
Cpu1ClkTck      : 0000000035a4e900
MMU Type        : Cheetah+
State:
CPU0:           online
CPU1:           online
# lspci
0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Psycho PCI Bus Module
0000:00:02.0 VGA compatible controller: ATI Technologies Inc 3D Rage II+ 215GTB [Mach64 GTB] (rev 9a)
0000:00:03.0 Ethernet controller: 3Com Corporation 3c905B 100BaseTX [Cyclone] (rev 24)
0000:00:05.0 Bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. RIO EBUS (rev 01)
0000:00:05.1 Ethernet controller: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. RIO GEM (rev 01)
0000:00:05.2 FireWire (IEEE 1394): Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. RIO 1394 (rev 01)
0000:00:05.3 USB Controller: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. RIO USB (rev 01)
0000:00:06.0 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c875 (rev 37)
0000:00:06.1 SCSI storage controller: LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c875 (rev 37)
0001:00:00.0 Host bridge: Sun Microsystems Computer Corp. Psycho PCI Bus Module
0001:00:04.0 SCSI storage controller: QLogic Corp. QLA2200 64-bit Fibre Channel Adapter (rev 05)
# free -m
             total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached
Mem:          4054        344       3710          0         31        150
-/+ buffers/cache:        162       3892
Swap:         8198          0       8198

Nice, huh?

For what do you need a Fibre Channel Adapter? Why using that ancient ATI card instead a new one? Aren't there PCI-X cards using powerful chips?

#19:

Fibre Channel: It came with it and an HD (was from an aunction), I don't need a bigger HD for now but in the future I'll probably get a cheap SATA/IDE external box with firewire and USB and just put a SATA big HD there, being able to plug it to the blade with firewire or to my desktop with usb2. I could also get a PCI SATA interface, but I go with whatever is more versatile for the money.

Why using that ancient ATI card: Because, sadly, the XVR-1000 it has (which used to be a quite high end UPA card with 256mb texture memory and 72mb fb memory, dedicated, and it's BIG, believe me) has zero support on Linux, thanks to no specs. So to use it I'd have to boot solaris. Since this is my server box and I had that card... I put it so this way I can at least run X decently.

Aren't there...: Yes, there are infinite things out there, but my budget is limited.

OS X86

I'm running Ubuntu

aka Linux for n00bs

Linux For n00bs, tweaked to be non-n00bish.

I like the challenge.

ReactOS

Lunix

I'm running Vista but only because I just bought this laptop and haven't switched yet. Vista fails hard so I was thinking of getting set up with ubuntu or kubuntu, but I'm not sure which yet.

Formerly Fedora

now Ubuntu

OS X86

DOS 7.1

is there any Os that will run windows software, but isn't windows? I know that sounds stupid but im trying multiple OS' for the first time.

30:
ReactOS: http://www.reactos.org/
Wine (Better under Linux, but works on other OSs): http://www.winehq.org/

>>18 that is a nice machine, i want it. lol

>>15 No OS eh? that is the way to go, what kinda computer is it?

4 computers....

1.Windows xp pro
2.Windows xp pro
3.Dual boot Windows 98/ Vector linux
4.Puppy/ Damn Small linux (puppy has better wireless support DSL has better package system)

FreeBSD, Slack and Debian.

im runniong xp, but im using bblean instead of explorer. it works great.

im runniong xp, but im using bblean instead of explorer. it works great.

3 desktops running 32-bit WinXP SP2 home 
2 laptops running i686 Gnome Linux, one of which also has XP (dual-booting)
I've tried other OSes but I like Gnome and XP the best. With OS X 10 (which I tried on someone else's computer) doing simple tasks like browsing the internet or trying to play a media file were slow and could even invoke kernel panics...

MAC MINI 1.5Ghz with Mac OS X 10.4.9

What OS I havent used.

Atari OS

/end

xp, anyone who is running vista should curl up in a ball and die.

recently went back to XP, had 2003 before

It's all about the penguin!

Currently running Ubuntu 7.04 (Feisty Fawn) as a desktop OS on two computers, as well as FreeBSD and Fedora Core 6 on two servers (one for NAS, one for Web Services)

Mac OS X

normal, i have xp, but sidescreen is running a 98 os

KNiggeruntu 7.04 Feisty Fuck

XP for the most part, but i have Ubuntu on a hard drive i can just connect for when my Windows drive dies. Linux is a wonderful rescue platform.

When i finally get another computer (i'm waiting to get a free one from whoever's having a chuck out), i'll hopefully try out UbuntuStudio, which looks like a laugh.

I also have a laptop currently running FreeBSD, which is purely as a learning experience. It had DSLinux on it until last week.