What Operating System(s) do you use?

by **spearfish** on Sat May 10, 2008 3:01 pm

Hey guys, I'm just curious:
What operating system(s) do you use?

I just switched from Windows 98 to Debian Linux. I love it!

by **The Weird One** on Sat May 10, 2008 4:49 pm

Windows. I've thought about Linux, but I never got around to doing anything.

by **Snorri1234** on Sat May 10, 2008 4:52 pm

I didn't see YOUR MOM on the list...

by **spearfish** on Sun May 11, 2008 11:16 am

That's generally not considered a major OS.

by **MeDeFe** on Sun May 11, 2008 1:19 pm

That's not what she said when I operated her system if you catch my drift.

by **InkL0sed** on Sun May 11, 2008 2:24 pm

I use Ubuntu at school -- Mac Tiger (hopefully Leopard soon) at home.

Macs have been in the family since the start. Quite literally.

by **spearfish** on Sun May 11, 2008 5:51 pm

Wow, Linux at school! We're making progress in this world, aren't we?

I'd love to see debian or something show up at my school's network. But the IT guys are probably too dumb to know about "Wine" to even consider it.

by **Heavycolon** on Sun May 11, 2008 5:53 pm

I've got an Amiga 500.

by **InkL0sed** on Sun May 11, 2008 5:53 pm

spearfish wrote:Wow, Linux at school! We're making progress in this world, aren't we?

I'd love to see debian or something show up at my school's network. But the IT guys are probably too dumb to know about "Wine" to even consider it.

Well, we're also a school that has a course higher than AP Java -- a course so unusual it isn't even AP. So I don't know how much that reflects the rest of the country...

by **dustn64** on Sun May 11, 2008 7:30 pm

Whatever came on my Mac Book last year.

by **chaosfactor** on Mon May 12, 2008 11:40 am

Zx Spectrum 48K Ram Booster on its backside, and a reel to reel tape player to load these Games.
I find It a bit difficult to Play RT though, everyone else is really slow...

by **Ray Rider** on Tue May 13, 2008 3:53 pm

I use my parent's two new macs with the Leopard OS, my new laptop with Vista, and an old computer with XP Pro.

by **MeDeFe** on Tue May 13, 2008 3:59 pm

I approve of your sig, Ray Rider.

by **Ray Rider** on Tue May 13, 2008 4:49 pm

MeDeFe wrote:I approve of your sig, Ray Rider.

lol Luns was bugging me about my Robin Hood sig, so I switched to this and told him to make fun of my sig now

by **static_ice** on Tue May 13, 2008 9:46 pm

InkL0sed wrote:
spearfish wrote:Wow, Linux at school! We're making progress in this world, aren't we?

I'd love to see debian or something show up at my school's network. But the IT guys are probably too dumb to know about "Wine" to even consider it.

Well, we're also a school that has a course higher than AP Java -- a course so unusual it isn't even AP. So I don't know how much that reflects the rest of the country...

Is that course IB or something?...

by **Hologram** on Tue May 13, 2008 10:03 pm

I have one Mac G4 with 10.4, a Mac G3 with something before Leopard, but still OSX, and one Windows ME

Needless to say, I use the G4 more often than anything else by a long shot.

by **lord voldemort** on Tue May 13, 2008 10:08 pm

im using xp..i refuse to use vista cause vista is terrible.
i use xp pro on both computer and laptop...though a few hacked features with mine

by **Hologram** on Tue May 13, 2008 10:16 pm

lord voldemort wrote:im using xp..i refuse to use vista cause vista is terrible.
i use xp pro on both computer and laptop...though a few hacked features with mine

Well, when the time comes, I'll refuse to give up XP for one simple reason: Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.

I don't know enough about Vista to make a decision on whether or not I'll get it (and now, I'm not taking any of your words for it) but one things for certain I'll always have a back-up copy of XP for SMAC.

by **InkL0sed** on Tue May 13, 2008 10:30 pm

static_ice wrote:
InkL0sed wrote:
spearfish wrote:Wow, Linux at school! We're making progress in this world, aren't we?

I'd love to see debian or something show up at my school's network. But the IT guys are probably too dumb to know about "Wine" to even consider it.

Well, we're also a school that has a course higher than AP Java -- a course so unusual it isn't even AP. So I don't know how much that reflects the rest of the country...

Is that course IB or something?...

No, it just... is. hehe

It's taught in C, and it's called "Systems Level Programming"

by **static_ice** on Tue May 13, 2008 11:58 pm

InkL0sed wrote:
static_ice wrote:
InkL0sed wrote:
spearfish wrote:Wow, Linux at school! We're making progress in this world, aren't we?

I'd love to see debian or something show up at my school's network. But the IT guys are probably too dumb to know about "Wine" to even consider it.

Well, we're also a school that has a course higher than AP Java -- a course so unusual it isn't even AP. So I don't know how much that reflects the rest of the country...

Is that course IB or something?...

No, it just... is. hehe

It's taught in C, and it's called "Systems Level Programming"

Yeh just wondering, cause I've heard "IB credits" being tossed around with "AP credits" in some of the schools I'm looking at so I could only assume they were in some divine league I could never hope to even hear about.

by **PLAYER57832** on Wed May 14, 2008 12:02 pm

All I know is I can remember learning AP .... and, well, let's just say I am old enough to remember when the apple 2000 was new, and "PC" wasn't even in our vernacular...

So I am surprised it is still around (in any form!)
:lol:

by **Bertros Bertros** on Wed May 14, 2008 12:19 pm

lord voldemort wrote:im using xp..i refuse to use vista cause vista is terrible.
i use xp pro on both computer and laptop...though a few hacked features with mine

Blimey I nearly fell off my seat. Surely that isn't somebody making an entirely unsubstantiated claim that Vista is terrible. An internet first I believe...

The question I have for you is why? Real justified reasons why Vista is terrible, not just because you don't understand it.

EDIT: Oh and Vista is really slow isn't an acceptable reason. If your machine is under or minimum specced for the OS then thats your look out.

If you have anything to do with the development or distrubution of internet delivered patches for MMOs then granted the code access security is a bit of a bitch but then you could choose to actually work with Microsoft on it...

by **Arbustos** on Thu May 15, 2008 8:37 am

InkL0sed wrote:
spearfish wrote:Wow, Linux at school! We're making progress in this world, aren't we?

I'd love to see debian or something show up at my school's network. But the IT guys are probably too dumb to know about "Wine" to even consider it.

Well, we're also a school that has a course higher than AP Java -- a course so unusual it isn't even AP. So I don't know how much that reflects the rest of the country...

our programming 1 is java

by **Ray Rider** on Thu May 15, 2008 12:47 pm

Hologram wrote:Well, when the time comes, I'll refuse to give up XP for one simple reason: Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri.

You should give the latest version of Civilization 4 a try, maybe that'll make you change your mind

by **InkL0sed** on Thu May 15, 2008 1:32 pm

Arbustos wrote:
InkL0sed wrote:
spearfish wrote:Wow, Linux at school! We're making progress in this world, aren't we?

I'd love to see debian or something show up at my school's network. But the IT guys are probably too dumb to know about "Wine" to even consider it.

Well, we're also a school that has a course higher than AP Java -- a course so unusual it isn't even AP. So I don't know how much that reflects the rest of the country...

our programming 1 is java

Interesting... we start out with NetLogo and Scheme.

But is your Java course AP?