So what is your other OS?

Windows XP for me.

Concerning Linux, I just have to claim "philosophical differences" with the Linux community and leave it at that. Because apparently they want their OS to be the way it is now.

Debian Stable, but I upgraded to a 2.6 kernel (needed to recompile to get alsa working anyway, you know how linux can be!). Oh, and Xfce4 is my windowmanager; I'm not a fan of KDE or Gnome, at least for the way I use my computer.

Just inherited some new parts, thinking about doing a fresh install and moving to testing or unstable. Until very recently I also had an old machine running BeOS full time, but I believe the hardrive (very old) died on me. Gotta get that back up and running when I have a chance.

Anyway I'm suprised everyone so far is on windows. I would have expected a bigger showing from OS X, and maybe a Linux guy or two like myself.

My main box is WinXP purely for game compatibility. I also have slackware, alinux, suse on other boxes. I have an old p1 that doesn't currently have a hd because the old trusty 1gb analog finally died on me. That's the one i used to run BeOS on and hopefully i can get Haiku on it in the near future after i get a new hard drive.

Oh yah, and I have my old p1 IBM notebook that I dual boot Win98 and BeOS max on.

Hahaha Bull. For starters Linux is a Kernel, Windows is a full-blown Desktop OS. Windows has alot of crap ("MicroGunk"), but if you follow most of the Gnu/Linux Distributions you'll find they do the same. This is area of computing that will be redefined by Haiku.

I use Windows XP for most of my tasks, but also have FreeBSD6-Stable installed on my Main SATA drive.

And on a 40GB (Removable) Drive:
BeOS R5
BeOS R5 - Anything Unnecessary
BeOS R5 + BONE
Haiku

I also have BeOS Dev 1.1 (With updates) on my laptop.

Unforutnetly i have never been able to develop on my main machine due to it's problems with BeOS (Although it does run :), and my laptop overheats within 10-15 minutes WITHOUT straining the processor...
Hopefully i will in the near future get a new Laptop, in which i can use to develop stuff for BeOS/Haiku :D.

Zeta 1.1, WinXP, Haiku. Zeta beeing the primary.

XP for Limewire, gaming :-)

wow! pretty sure Sikosis has it made. :D couldn't get much better than that. good job man :wink:

1) BeOS R5.03 with Tracker.NewFS for everything

2) Haiku for testing

3) Nothing yet, but thinking about throwing in PC-BSD just for fun

Gentoo Linux --> For gaming, media editing, document editing, mediaplaying, development, running servers of various kind, basically everyday use. My primary system.

Syllable 0.6.0a --> Testing and coding, for the fun of it
SkyOS 5 Beta 10 --> Testing, for the fun of it
BeOS R5Max --> Testing, for the fun of it
eComStation 1.2 --> Uuhh.. Once you've tried OS/2 you almost never go back ;)

Windows XP Pro w. SP2 (downgrading from Win2K3 Standard Server w. SP1) --> Only used for Counter-Strike or Video Sessions in MSN Messenger :twisted:. Have stopped using Windows after the downgrade.

Used to have a Haiku-system, but it was removed in order to get some space for eCS.

I guess I'll chime in..

2 years ago I used BeOS R5 pro for almost everything and learned how to program C++ on it. At the same time I was running Win98 on a recording/gaming machine. And win2k as my general purpose (scanning, printing, graphics design).

REcently I run linux 80% of the time. Windows 15% and BeOS 5%. Linux connects me to the net and acts as my PHP development platform. Beos is just being booted from time to time for Nostalgic purposes.

Future plans. BeOS 100% of the time but possibly linux for my servers and routers.

I love BeOS. I will not abandon her..

I use OSX at home but forced to use XP/Citrix in work/uni

I used to have a machine running Windoze 98 and BeOS R4.5ish.

Switching to Be or Haiku as a secondary OS when I get the chance to update my machine a bit

my primary OS is GNU/Linux (gentoo)
I've a WinXP installation boundled with my laptop that I don't use quite at all

I use grub for multiboot.
I'm managing in running Haiku through Virtualbox with no success.
I think I'd put it on a physical partition.

This in no way means I like Linux, it just works better.

Is this logical? Isn't an OS just something you use because it is useful to you and not because some kind of irrelevant emotion?

What is there to like or no to like about "Linux"? By the way: Linux is only a kernel, not an operating system ...

Are we dealing with operating systems overhere or with religious fanaticism? :-)

How relevant is it not to like something that you obviously use because it does what you want it to do?

Why the need to explicitly apologise by stating that you merely use "Linux" (whatever that may be) without actually "liking" it? Aren't operating systems supposed to just work without getting in your way?

For my daily work I use Kubuntu 6.10 (KDE 3.5.6) and a little bit Zeta. On my second and old computer run W2K and QNX RTP 6.3.0 and sometimes I have a look on ReactOS.
(And in my earlier life I used OS/2 to! ;-) )

I have a veritable smorgasbord of OS's

OSX On A Mac Mini is the OS I use an a day to day basis.

Vista on the HTPC. (+Linux in the future)

WinXP on the games machine and on the laptop.

FreeBSD on the file server

And in the future a Linux media server

Started on AmigaDos 1.1 in 1986.

I became free of windows about 15 months ago :)

Have been on Debian first then various Ubuntu's for about 18 months now. I also have a machine on PC-BSD, which is very nice, I try different Linux distro's occasionally, & have recently installed Nexenta Alpha 6, the Ubuntu on the Solaris kernel, interestingly the next release will have ZFS available, which is probably the only other interesting file system, apart from the Haiku one!

Free Solaris is on it's way via snail mail, it will be interesting to look at, I don't think I'll stay with it for too long though.

I look at the Zeta 1.21 boot CD rarely.

Play UT2k4 natively on Ubuntu, & use Cedega, (though you can now do it with Wine) to play Guild Wars, which works superbly :-)

I am really looking forward to Haiku RC1...

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I'd argue that it's not slow (unless you're using rpms, rpm package managers seem to be incredibly slow), but yeah... It's not for everyone. Use what works for you.

As my boot manager can handle more than 4 primary partitions, I have
MS-Windows XP & Server 2k3 just for fun and gain experience, BeOS r5(my primary system) & MAX(I've replace it with Haiku 4 days ago), FreeBSD, Sun Solaris, Ubuntu & SuSE Linux dist.(gain experience & for cross compilation only), Syllable, QNX Neutrino & Plan 9 from Bell Labs. Under VM are ReactOS, AROS(I prefer install it under VM because of it's partitioning system(Amiga)), & Oberon.
Maybe I'm too greed, but I love & enjoy to know & learn about from them.

Starts from Dos, then Win, now OpenBSD and Haiku.

I'm almost all the time on Archlinux. I've got an Windows XP parittion which i rarely use, last time it was in a LAN party.

When you're done installing Archlinux, you got a console login and just the services for the basic system, than you choose what you want to do with it. It's kind of Gentoo but binairy even if you can build or rebuild from sources too.

I tried syllable and haiku in vmware and i'm looking forward to use haiku when it will be more completed. I've been a BeOS user for a while, which i discovered with the personal edition in an OS magazine years ago.

I tried OpenSolaris too which feel a lot like linux because of the gnome desktop.

I have three computers, all ubuntu. I really love this OS and I don't plan an switching to anything other then haiku (when it's good and ready).

I have 1 win-xp rig (2007)
(+ my father has another one that I am leading to him long term{2003}),
1 Ubuntu(2004),
1 that is meant to be haiku(2006 cheapo)
and one that has no PSU(2000)

Mac OS X at work
Ubuntu at work
Slackware at home (main PC)
Win Server 2003 in VMware for visual studio / games dev.

I dual boot Windows XP/PC BSD, although i really don't use PC BSD at all. I follow the ReactOS project and aim to eventually run a ReactOS/Haiku dual boot (With ROS replacing XP and Haiku replacing PC BSD)

EDIT: Haiku R1A1 replaced the PC BSD.