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Hail All!

Just a quick straw poll here in the name of personal interest. I'm just curious as to which operating system is the most popular amongst board users. Smile

Obviously, in-poll discussion on operating systems (And their benefits or flaws) is more than welcome. Cool

Note: Following previous experiences on another forum that I won't mention, votes for Mac OS become invalid if they pass the 50 mark! Laughing

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coastergraham · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2008 8:05 pm Post subject:

My current PC is a windows xp platform.

But once this one dies I will be getting a mac again, far better computers and I love the OS system.
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stealth fan · Posted: Sat Jan 12, 2008 11:42 am Post subject:

I use windows XP and it never lets me down.
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Death · Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2008 11:59 am Post subject:

Hail All!

I'll admit that most of the PCs on my network are running Windows XP Professional, and I've found that it's a good OS for the things that I like to do. Also, Windows has very good support for doing everything with the keyboard - Useful for me as I don't really use the mouse for anything other than editing graphics - Which IMO is superior to the support offered in any other OS that I've used. Smile

However, I just don't like the idea of being tied down to one company's proprietry system and would rather use well documented, open-source solutions if I could. It has to be said that if I could use Linux as well as I can use Windows, my whole network would be running SuSE, Ubuntu or PCLinux insted. Cool

Farewell... Twisted Evil

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Just in case anyone's interested, here's a brief run-down of my network:
(Even if no-one is, it's about time I compiled a network roster for my own use anyway, so I'll do it here! Razz

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Aragorn:
Athlon64 2.4GHz, 512Mb RAM, 160GB storage, Windows XP Professional SP2.
Main system - Audio/video playback, internet, WoW client, remote network administration, intense computing applications.
Gimli:
Athlon 800MHz, 320Mb RAM, 66Gb storage, Windows XP Professional SP1.
Backup system - Stores copies of data held on Aragorn. Used for chron-jobs, and tasks not possible in SP2.
Legolas:
Pentium III 550MHz, 128Mb RAM, 14Gb storage, Windows XP Professional SP1.
Internet services - Hosts web sites, large files for the web, peer-to-peer applications, WoW patch downloads etc.
Boromir:
Celeron D 400MHz, 140Mb RAM, 25Gb storage, Windows XP Professional SP1.
Satellite/LAN-party system - Used for applications in external locations (Friends houses etc.) or as a loan terminal.
Faramir:
Intel Pentium I 133MHz, 32Mb RAM, 6Gb storage, Windows 98SE.
Legacy services - Host for legacy applications and hardware. Also used for HDD management and ghost applications.
Tom Bombadil:
Nokia 9200 (Presume 80486SX), 512Kb RAM, 256Mb storage, Nokia Communicator OS.
Mobile phone - Supports wireless and Bluetooth networking. Used for obvious purposes plus file transfer, network bridging (WAN-Bluetooth), war-walking etc.
Frodo:
Intel 80386SX, 4Mb RAM, 80Mb storage, MS-DOS 6.20.
General laptop - Used for writing documents and programs on the road or abroad. Synched into network via LPT1 on Faramir, and INTERLNK.EXE for DOS.

Death · Posted: Thu Jan 17, 2008 10:30 pm Post subject:

Hmmm...I'm rather surprised!

So we don't have anyone here using Windows Vista then? Shocked

I suppose I could understand that in part though...I'm having to use Vista Business on the machine I use at work. Although it's far better than Home Basic, it's still years behind Windows XP Professional for ease of configuration and user-friendliness. Rolling Eyes

(Although in fairness I ought to point out that Windows Vista comes with much better security than XP. Cool

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Farewell... Twisted Evil

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Coaster Police · Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 5:42 pm Post subject:

I'll bet we do by now (infact i know several people that do), given the last post was October.

I am not using it tho, not until i really need to. B.O.S. as Ryan would say.

So who's got it? So loves it, and who's had all kinds of problems with it?
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