(Sorry if a topic like this has been posted before or it is in the wrong section)
Have a favorite operating system? Or do you have a couple favorites?
I'm currently downloading OpenSolaris, I've heard good things from it.
I love Ubuntu, Kubuntu, Xubuntu. Well, every variation on ubuntu and ubuntu itself :D
What about you?
Multics
CTSS
DTSS
OpenVMS
BSD
OS/2
Mac OSX Tiger, Leopard and Snow Leopard (especially the latter~)
Ubuntu
Linux Mint
Windows 3.1
Quote from: Bella on February 26, 2011, 11:15:46 PMUbuntu
Go ubuntu! >:D I forgot about ubuntu, lol. I love ubuntu. <3
Mac OS 1
Mac OS 2
Mac OS 3
Mac OS 4
Mac OS 5
Mac OS 6
Mac OS 7
Mac OS 8
Mac OSX Public Beta
Mac OSX Server
Mac OSX .0
Mac OSX .1
Mac OSX .2
Mac OSX .3
Mac OSX .4
Mac OSX .5
Mac OSX .6
iOS 1
iOS 1
iOS 3
iOS 4
/cracks knuckles/ ok then
Quote from: Krizonar on February 26, 2011, 11:33:13 PM
Mac OS 1
Mac OS 2
Mac OS 3
Mac OS 4
Mac OS 5
Mac OS 6
Mac OS 7
Mac OS 8
Mac OSX Public Beta
Mac OSX Server
Mac OSX .0
Mac OSX .1
Mac OSX .2
Mac OSX .3
Mac OSX .4
Mac OSX .5
Mac OSX .6
iOS 1
iOS 1
iOS 3
iOS 4
/cracks knuckles/ ok then
O-Oh god. That list is so long ;_;
And I love all those as well, I just hardly ever get to use them. well, I have an iPod touch with iOS 3.1.3 so, yeah. xD
there's a difference between -tan and OS itself. for example, i like Visbou-tan, but i HAAAAATE. vista. and 3.1 is ADOOOORAABLEEE~~ <333 but i've never used 3.1. :\
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows 2000 (to a point)
Windows XP (i've tried 2/3 versions)
Windows 7
OSes i've nver tried, but would like to:
Ubuntu
Mint
Mac OS9
Windows 3.1
Windows ME
KariOS (aka ChocOS)
I'll just list the ones that I had no problems with as my favourites. x)
Windows 98
Windows 7 (haven't used it much, but the little I did it was nice)
Fedora Core 6
Fedora 8
Linux Mint 10
Anti-favourites (ie with nothing but trouble):
Windows 95
Windows Vista
Fedora 13 & 14 (lumped together as 14 wasn't a clean install but upgrade)
I just got internet on my XP~
:D
I can believe you've never tried Ubuntu, Kari. D:
Quote from: Bella on February 27, 2011, 03:47:48 PM
I can believe you've never tried Ubuntu, Kari. D:
You MUST, try it. YOU MUSSSSST.
@Krizo: I know this must be a sadistic question, but what's your favorite among all the Mac OSes? >=D
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I've also tried Ubuntu. It's good, but it's awfully slow under VirtualBox and that's the only way it runs on my Mac, so I don't use it much. :(
Quote from: Aurora Borealis on February 27, 2011, 04:11:45 PM
@Krizo: I know this must be a sadistic question, but what's your favorite among all the Mac OSes? >=D
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hm...
probably 10.4, 10.6 and 6.
...that's still 3
(http://buddypress.mediaworkstudio.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/album/1/happy-cat.jpg)
10.6 is my favourite too. I have an original System 6 software kit in a box! But no computer to use it on... I don't think...
I've never tried Ubuntu. Hmm...
Gentoo is nice, but some of the people in its core community seem less than pleasant... Ehh...
Oh, SMGL is cool too. And FreeBSD. And DOS!
the only reason i haven't yet tried ubuntu is cause i have nowhere to put it. i have a brochure on it, though, so if i ever switch to linux, i'd probably use that as a bridge into the new world. =w=
Quote from: svx on February 27, 2011, 04:57:48 PM
Gentoo is nice, but some of the people in its core community seem less than pleasant... Ehh...
That applies to many Linux communities, I feel. Every time one posts about a problem like, "whenever I do this and that, the x server freezes", the first answer is, "I don't have any problem, but I never do that". And that's pretty much the nicest and most helpful answer one gets for a while. >.<
Well, I need to admit too that I've never dared to ask any questions myself: I just trust someone else did and skip all the sarcastic answers. x)
that's my major turnoff with linux as a whole; the majority of the community is a buncha programmers, so naturally some of them would be total asses to people who don't use the command line/know how to program/are new to linux. i'm a little afraid to try it, since i don't know much. the only silver lining is that the majority of the people here either use or have used linux, so i know i'll get a straight, helpful answer. :3
I have an irrational dislike of the Linux and FOSS communities, mostly based on the actions of a couple of ex-friends/current-asshats. -W-
The community isn't as esoteric as you'd think - in fact, there are a lot of experienced, but non-techhead people involved with Linux - but there does seem to be a pervasive holier-than-thou attitude, worse even than that of the so-called Mac Evangelists. Ironically, while the Linux/FOSS communities pride themselves on inclusion and user freedom, they aren't exactly the most people-friendly of groups. -.-;;
This reminds me.
I can't decide if i like XP or Ubuntu more. orz
I used to do a little work in the Ubuntu community back in version 9.?? (Been a while), organized a few package files and put together a wallpaper theme type thing. The community isn't that bad from what I noticed, though there were the people whom got a high and mighty with Linux and such so I don't use Ubuntu that much anymore other than a dual boot back-up if Windows7 is being cranky.
Here is my list:
Windows 95
Windows 2K
Windows 7
Macintosh System 7
Macintosh System 7.5
Mac OSX Snow Leopard (Don't own a Mac that can run this but I still like it for when I get to use it.)
Ubuntu 9.10
Arch Linux
I should really make a list of the ones i've used..
windows 95
windows 98
windows 2k
windows xp
windows vista
windows 7
mac system 7
Mac os x
Ubuntu 8.04
Ubuntu 10.10
does anyone have an iso of windows 95 i can use? :\
I think I might... unless it's a MSVPC/Virtualbox image... : \
Quote from: Chocofreak13 on February 28, 2011, 11:02:45 PM
does anyone have an iso of windows 95 i can use? :\
I know I have one somewhere on my computer....I'll have to dig around
I have three or four disks, but no ISO.
@stew: if i give you my mailing address, can i has one? i probably couldn't use the iso anyway.... ^^;;
I think he means he has three or four install floppies rather than a single disk image... from before the days they used ISOs to install OSes...
Upon closer inspection, it appears that I only have a VMWare Player image of Windows 95. You could still used it under VirtualBox if you wanna just play with it though... : \
Windows 95 came on about 35 floppies, so I doubt he's referring to that, unless he has an incomplete set.
My bad, I was thinking of my Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95 CD. I do have a complete 95 floppy set though. Digging it out of storage would be a pain though, since they were never used.
;__; that would suck......but i'd still like them if you're willing to give. :\
Quote from: Chocofreak13 on March 01, 2011, 06:05:14 PM
;__; that would suck......but i'd still like them if you're willing to give. :\
http://www.mediafire.com/?zdmndwze0md
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I'm thinking about saving up for a mac mini..
wish me luck :U
Quote from: Krizonar on March 01, 2011, 06:37:32 PMhttp://www.mediafire.com/?zdmndwze0md
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Only 20MB for Windows 96? Really?
EDIT: Ah, those are only the floppies.
Quote from: Red-Machine on March 01, 2011, 06:45:42 PM
Quote from: Krizonar on March 01, 2011, 06:37:32 PMhttp://www.mediafire.com/?zdmndwze0md
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Only 20MB for Windows 96? Really?
EDIT: Ah, those are only the floppies.
System 7.5 in 1994 was about that size as well.
Even Mac OSX Cheetah is only like 170 MB.
i'll do my best to use them =__=
I'm a little late to this topic, it seems, but I might as well name off a few of my favorites:
- MS-DOS 6.22 (Still my preferred version of DOS; it has all the features I'm used to)
- Windows 2000 (I still proudly use it to this day)
- OS/2 (I've only used it a few times, but I loved it; in fact, I have an OS/2 mousepad on my desk)
- Macintosh System 7.5 (It was the version of MacOS I used when I was first introduced to the Macintosh. Like Windows 95, it brings back fond memories when I use it)
I love OS/2 too. Elephantine monstrosity thought it is. >3<
@Pentium: I <3 Win 2k. Biggy has her installed, even if she just sort of sits in the corner for right now. ^^;
I love DOS, all the wee micro and PC ones as much as the gloriousness that is DOS/360.
Quote from: stewartsage on March 29, 2011, 02:42:16 PM
I love DOS, all the wee micro and PC ones as much as the gloriousness that is DOS/360.
|D
Not so hot on the micro DOSes (though CP/M was fun! Until I blew up my CP/M machine...) but the large-scale DOSes are awesome... 'v'
i wish i had the mad skillz required to use DOS. :[
The Disk operating system era sounds very odd.
You literally take your hardrive out of your home computer and carry it around with you.
but i do that already. :\
Why?
I can't really see a purpose of doing it anymore, especially with a Laptop.
But back then, it's what everyone did...
because i have a laptop. and i keep my programs and music on externals. :\
That's technically not taking your laptop's hardrive out everytime you wanted to go somewhere though Xd
I keep backups of music/art/movies/DMGs on my external as well, but I don't take hardrives out of anything.
my laptop's drive is too small to hold everything. ^^
technically, i DID take these out of a computer....they're desktop drives hooked up to the computer via USB. :3
Yeah, my Dad has one of those USB to SATA things he used on a computer's hardrive that died.
I paid money for my drive instead of doing that (just using a dead computer's hardrive for an external). But it's awesome, because it'll do Firewire 800, Firewire 400 OR USB.
I'm considering buying an HDD toaster next, that way I can just use normal HDDs for my backups instead of having to buy a new external HD every year or two... .w.
Am I the only person who doesn't use mass amounts of hard disk space? Or RAM? Or anything.....
That might be the case... -_-;
All the movie/video files, music, VMs and highres digital photographs are taking a toll on my diskspace... in a year and a half, I've used 350gb on my iMac's 640gb HDD.
I have a 500gb backup disk, but that's already been filled because I use Time Machine as a backup utility... I think the farthest it reaches back now is October.
40 / 320 gb free on my hard drive, 259gb/1TB free on my external.
Lots of animu, mostly -~-
Quote from: stewartsage on March 30, 2011, 04:02:55 PM
Am I the only person who doesn't use mass amounts of hard disk space? Or RAM? Or anything.....
In the post desktop thread, it can be seen I use less than 13% of my Hardrive.
All my files put together are about 60 GB or so.
I've also never seen my ram go above 50% usage.
know this is off topic but am I the only one who thinks that the iOS's would be cool to have on installed as a real OS? Then again, there is that featuure with the MacBook but still...
My favorite OS is... ehh...
Let's see here...
Eh, Linux? I'd have to say that I've had my best experiences with Linux, and not too many bad experiences
It's what I'm most familiar with though... I guess I've had bad experiences with it too, but not many...
I'd take (MS- / any similar)DOS as my second favorite.
That's what I'd probably say without thinking about it, but DOS isn't really that useful...
It's great for old software and such, sure... Ehh, it's... Fun and straightforward to develop programs for it too...
But the only realistic appeal of it to me anymore is that nostalgia :p
So, my second favorite would be Windows CE.
Oddly.
CE 6, that is...
I was unfamiliar with it until I got my Zune HD, but now I think it's awesome. It's simple and efficient at what it's meant to do, and I've only ran into a few small things that I hate about it (which is impressive :p)
But Mobile Internet Explorer can go back to the abyss where it belongs.
srsly, it's a mess
Did those guys (the Mobile IE team) learn to program at some random tech college advertising on G4 TV or something? :p
Yeah, Linux... rocks.
Rocks hard.
In mobile news, I just learned (yesterday) that Nokia will be phasing out Symbian in favor of WINDOWS MOBILE.
/rage
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internal drive: 74.1 gb free of 109 gb
speedy's musics: 25.3 gb free of 149 gb
speedy's programs, pics, etc: 36.9 gb free of 74.5 gb
my current music drive used to be my backup drive :\
:D Elementary OS FINALLY came out! Good thing I got my allowence today, ima order it~
(I could torrent it but you guys know i hate that.)
http://elementaryos.org/
Btw, I also found this on OMG!Ubuntu i feel obligated to post it here.
I love this banner to death. Let me know if you get it or don't get it, i could explain it.
Animal name of 11.04: Natty Narwhal and reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykwqXuMPsoc
(http://i1006.photobucket.com/albums/af185/Lucasjay00/nattynarwhalubuntu1104.png)
WINDOWS 95 IS THE BESTEST OS EVER CREATED BY MAN EVAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My disk space situation is just as bad
Disk #1: 500 GB -- 60 MB for boot partition, the rest for Gentoo (109 GB free)
Disk #2: 500 GB -- 496 GB for anime/music, 4 GB for Linux swap space (30 GB free)
Disk #3: 80 GB -- all for Windows 7 (cringing... < 1 GB free)
Disk #4: 80 GB -- all for Sabayon (26 GB free)
In total, 257 GB of anime on disk #1 (along with Gentoo), and 237 GB of anime on disk #2
Only 64 GB of music... I ams a lightweight :p
Quote from: svx on April 01, 2011, 08:49:14 PM
Only 64 GB of music... I ams a lightweight :p
<1.15 gb of music
wut
out of 499.93 GB I use 57.65.
I have no idea how much used/free my external mobile drive has.
Mehh, I store my brother's music too, and some dumps from random iPods I've come in contact with have made their way into my collection somehow (even though I hate the music :p)
lol, and this...
svxs@watchtower:~/32/quakestuff$ du -h
18M ./lits
195M ./maps
4.0K ./movies/q
5.5G ./movies
51M ./id1
32K ./crosshairs
248K ./qizmo
348K ./mods/Runequake
64K ./mods/Artifacts
136K ./mods/Frikbot Midair
652K ./mods/Metamorphism
384K ./mods/Frogbot Clan Arena/maps
2.2M ./mods/Frogbot Clan Arena
4.5M ./mods/Rocket Arena
8.1M ./mods
284M ./textures/maps
5.9M ./textures/ammo_etc
2.4M ./textures/weapons
836M ./textures/texture_packs
756K ./textures/simple_map_textures
1.2G ./textures
168K ./utils/qcc-compilers
60K ./utils/demo-tools
232K ./utils
1.7M ./gfx/conbacks
1.7M ./gfx
2.3M ./hud
36K ./configs/q
56K ./configs
13M ./skyboxes
4.5M ./models/ammo_etc
13M ./models/weapons
18M ./models
6.9G .
Meeeeh, I don't really have much music, I'm very picky.
System breakdowns?
I keep mine pretty in check, so I can almost name how much (X) uses off the top of my head.
My garageband add-ons use roughly 30 gigs.
Megas XLR is about 7 gigs.
STO is about 9 gigs.
itunes is roughly 1 gig, as stated.
That alone puts me down to 10.65 gigs, which doesn't include all the other programs I've downloaded and added on. (ex; Nanosaur@200 megs, Webkit@150 megs, Pixelmator@100 megs, iwork@400 megs, etc). Or personal files.
I like how garageband add ons are roughly half my used space :P
Going by my iPod, I have about five gigs of music.... and I'm extremely choosy.
Quote from: stewartsage on March 30, 2011, 04:02:55 PM
Am I the only person who doesn't use mass amounts of hard disk space? Or RAM? Or anything.....
My entire personal folder is 24 Gb. ._. It "helped" a lot that all my anime disappeared somewhere around New Year's (I swear it was rigged, it vanished also from my backup). -.-; Even with those though, I think only about 120 Gb would've been needed I guess. I don't watch many movies or especially tv series, nor do I collect music, so not much to store apart from anime...
Bella and Krizonar have officially made my day.
xD
Bella appears to have seen the light, guys! This calls for a celebration!
Quote from: Red-Machine on April 02, 2011, 05:58:58 AM
Bella appears to have seen the light, guys! This calls for a celebration!
I think it was for april fools. xD
Quote from: Red-Machine on April 02, 2011, 05:58:58 AM
Bella appears to have seen the light, guys! This calls for a celebration!
Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. >________>
MAC OSX 10.6 IS THE GREATEST OS THAT I WILL EVER USE, AT LEAST UNTIL I CAN GET MY EMULATED MULTICS SYSTEM. <3No, really though, the greatest OS I've ever used is probably
OpenVMS. Even if the extent of my usage was mostly poking around the system and playing lots and lots of classic ASCII games.
CTSS too, if you consider its historic importance...
i still kind of hate mac.
uguu, saseko's taking care of me while nanami's sick. but since she's actually my sister's, i might have to fall back on hacchan... o__o;
Some others I like that I didn't mention last time:
- Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (If I have a need for 16-bit Windows, I go with this version; it's easily the best one)
- Ubuntu (Compared to the mess that was the other version of Linux I tried (RedHat 5.2), Ubuntu was quite nice; if I have a need for Linux, I go to it first)
- Windows 95 (I used this version of Windows for years; it held the position of my favorite version overall until I finally gave Windows 2000 a fair chance)
HarrHarr.
I be alive. I got sucked into Pokemon again ><
Sorry xD
but, i am using my DSi alot more. I get on here with the DSi web browser (opera) sometimes. its a paint to post though.
QuotePOKEMANS
MAH BOI. PRESENT US YOUR MAIN TEAM.
:3 k
-Diamond-
Complete Pokedex
8 badges and Elite 4
Level 61 Unown
Level 52 Staraptor
Level 45 Empoleon
Level 34 Torterra
Level 33 Kricketune
Level 31 Luxray
I'm leveling up my weak pokemon :3
so, back on topic.
I am still using Elementary on my tupid IBM >:U
the os is awesome its just that i really don't like IBM -w-
WHAT ABOUT YOUR BLACK/WHITE TEAM, BOI?
Quote from: NejinOniwa on April 16, 2011, 01:45:08 PM
WHAT ABOUT YOUR BLACK/WHITE TEAM, BOI?
Sold the game. ;A;
I'm more into ranger.
SOLD? GO SLEEP ON THE COUCH! >:[
naughty, naughty. >__<;
also, don't choo bash IBM!! IBMs are tanks, mah boi! >:[
once school is out, i'm going to repair one of the boxes in the corner,and install ME on it. :3
now this just leaves the problem of how to install 95 on timmy...... :\
While at work today, I saw something that put a smile on my face; they still have a PC running Windows 2000. This was a surprise; seeing as every other PC in that building runs on XP...although, there's supposedly one hidden in the basement that's running OS/2, but nobody has been able to prove what OS it's running.
I once heard a tale of a VAX running VMS that was closed up behind a wall in an office building, and discovered like five years later.... still running....
My favourite desktop OS is still Mac OSX 10.6
And my favourite...
Linux distro is Mint
Historic OS is Multics
"Timeless" OS is OpenVMS
I got a Kaypro from the college tech department. That gives me hope the PDP-11 or maybe the VAXen are still around here somewhere.
@bells: that sounds like a ghost story..... o__o;