My main computer runs the following operating system:
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Parts that positively cannot be assembled in improper order will be.
Parts that positively cannot be assembled in improper order will be.
Other poll ideas (Score:5, Informative)
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No OpenVMS?
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Re:Other poll ideas (Score:4, Funny)
Meh, you young whippersnappers know nothing. The only true VMS was VAX/VMS, pre version 5. If you were serious about your computing though, you'd be running TOPS10 or TOPS20 on a 36-bit KL10 or KS10 CPU.
And remember: Never trust a computer you can actually lift.
Re: Other poll ideas (Score:4, Funny)
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In 1000 years Humanity will be:
- Doomed
- Enlightened
- Cowboy Neal
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Missing option:
-mostly the same!
No he listed Doomed.
Re:Other poll ideas (Score:5, Interesting)
-don't know. What's this "outside" you're talking about?
-know how to set up a tent and light a campfire
-can hunt, trap, and make a lean-to
-am a dedicated survivalist
-have prepared fallout shelters in three remote locations and my armory would make the Marine Corps proud
-am depending on Cowboy Neal to sit on the zombies until they suffocate
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If your karma was above 50, then your would get 15. At some point they capped the karma at 50 and stopped showing the real value. I still think they display "Karma: Most Excellent" if it is 50 as well as setting the cap at 55.
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Paperback
iPad
Kindle
Computer monitor
Phone
I like listening to books
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Re:Other poll ideas (Score:5, Interesting)
One for the return...
Which LInux desktop do you prefer?
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Check this against the browser strings of those surfing Slahdot. Even as bad as Win 10 is I bet those numbers do a flip.
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What was the brand of graphics cards that was in your first PC. (no onboards)
1) AMD
2) Nvidia
3) ATI
4) 3DFX
5) Matrox
6) Diamond Multimedia
7) low-budget (Cirrus Logic/ Trident/ S3)
8) Other (specify in comments)
Re: Other poll ideas (Score:3)
Hercules
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In honour of the Olympic games - favourite Ancient Olympics sport:
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An invitation for another OS war? Tired topic. Why not approach it from a functional perspective? For example, is there some application that really justifies the selection of a particular OS? (I picked Windows 10 since I use it most of the time for a scanning application, but I do most of my first draft writing on my Macbook because the dictation is better.)
However, I'd still advocate polls that can help improve slashdot. Perhaps a poll on the most important focus for improvement? Today I think it might be
Re:Other poll ideas (Score:5, Interesting)
Here's a poll idea:
What real-life mystery do you want solved?
How fast could a T-Rex run [wikipedia.org], and what did his roar sound like?
Why did people build Stonehenge [english-heritage.org.uk]?
What happened to the children of Hamelin [wikipedia.org]?
What happened to Roanoke [wikipedia.org]?
What's the story behind Kennedy [wikipedia.org], Oswald, and Ruby?
Why didn't Fox support Firefly any better?
Other (Specify in comments)
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Pie versus Cake
1) pie
2) cake
Cake is a lie.
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Re:Other poll ideas (Score:4)
It's like no one realizes that war comes with collateral damage. It's like they were born yesterday or have no knowledge of history (or both). If everything is not 100% perfect they go into a fit. There is no perfection. There is no absolute safety.
Shit happens. It's our profession to be prepared for it.
Linux - Gentoo based (Score:5, Interesting)
Re:Linux - Gentoo based (Score:5, Insightful)
Yeah, the Linux options need an Linux - Other. This leaves out slackware, arch, gentoo, etc etc etc.
Re: Linux - Gentoo based (Score:4, Informative)
This- there's a shitload of distros out there not using apt nor rpm.
Me? I run Arch on all my home systems.
Re: Linux - Gentoo based (Score:4, Interesting)
When did the package manager become more important than the operating environment? Is this a side effect of home screen app store mentality?
I guess it's because back in the day pretty much every usable distro was either based on RedHat or Ubuntu. The lone exception was Slackware, IIRC.
Re: Linux - Gentoo based (Score:2, Insightful)
Yeah, Ubuntu isn't really "back in the day." Maybe Red Hat, Debian, and Slackware? I still think in terms of SVR4 and BSD, Linux notwithstanding.
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Yeah, I remember RH, Debian, and Slackware as the big 3. Ubuntu is a relative newcomer.
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Nit: "Debian", not "Ubuntu".
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Did anyone actually use Coherent?
That was my first exposure to a Unix environment! Damn, now I feel old.
Re:Linux - Gentoo based (Score:4, Interesting)
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Another Gentoo Linux, on all six home systems. (in our household of two)
Re:Linux - Gentoo based (Score:5, Interesting)
Gentoo since around '05 as well. I was coming from a dual boot Fedora Core 4 & Windows XP Pentium 3 800MHz. Something completely borked my Windows install, and I was able to recover my data from Fedora so I decided to go full Linux after that. I learned a lot from that stage 1 install process, fell in love with Gentoo's flexibility, and I haven't seriously considered another distro since that time. Gentoo continues to offer that flexibility, and is one of the few remaining distros that allows (and even defaults to) being systemd free.
I don't recommend Gentoo for everyone, but if you really enjoy Linux or tinkering with PCs, it's definitely worth considering.
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It's good for learning. I abandoned it once I realised I didn't want to wait overnight for the new KDE to compile.
Re:Linux - Gentoo based (Score:4, Funny)
Gentoo since around '05 as well.
Gentoo since 2005... so I'm guessing you started compiling, when - mid-2003?
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Child.
Linux - from source - since 1997.
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Youngster. Yggdrasil, circa 1994.
Since then, various -- SuSE, Mandrake, Caldera, RedHat, Mint, OpenSuSE, not necessarily in that order. With the occasional Linux From Scratch and others just because. At one time, SuSE on PowerPC (also YellowDog) and on Sparc. Raspbian (what else?) on Raspberry Pi.
But mostly SuSE flavors at home. RedHat/CentOS at work.
BSD on the firewall.
NetBSD (Score:2)
NetBSD on the Desktop, Servers, Gateway, anywhere.
Missing options (Score:3)
Where's OS/2? What about BeOS?
Re:Missing options (Score:5, Informative)
Define main computer? (Score:2, Insightful)
Seriously, what does constitute the main computer?
The one I use longest in a day? The one I work on? The one I most often reach for the console? The one I ran software on 24/7 but rarely touch they keyboard?
The one that stores most of my data? The one that I use for gaming? The one that I use for internet? The one I use for banking?
Which one is the main computer?
Re:Define main computer? (Score:4, Insightful)
The one you consider your main machine. The defining factors are left for you to determine.
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Seriously, what does constitute the main computer?
The one I use longest in a day? The one I work on? The one I most often reach for the console? The one I ran software on 24/7 but rarely touch they keyboard? The one that stores most of my data? The one that I use for gaming? The one that I use for internet? The one I use for banking?
Which one is the main computer?
This, 1000 times over! My work laptop has Windows 7; our hundreds of dev environments run RedHat, as do our clients' servers. I try to avoid computers at home, though I run a media server on Ubuntu.
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Yea.
Work laptop: Mac
Home desktop: Windows 10
CoLo'd server: RPM (6.8 CentOS)
Home firewall server: RPM (7.2 CentOS)
Home Kubernetes/Docker server: RPM (7.2 CentOS)
Home previous desktop: Windows 7 (some apps that only work on 7)
Home previous previous desktop: Windows XP (some apps for physical hardware that only work on XP)
I still have my Home laptop: Mac but I only drag it out once in a while for CD ripping duty.
[John]
Difficult to answer... (Score:4, Informative)
I went for Mac OS X, but I also use Slackware and OpenBSD.
Now, the "main computer" is also tricky since my laptop is a Macbook Air, but the home server, on which I also spend a large amount of time through OpenSSH, is running Slackware.
Third party wasted vote (Score:5, Funny)
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See, clearly OS X is taking the vote away from linux which is letting Microsoft win!
OSX is taking votes from BSD, not linux. Study it out. :P
Windows 7 (Score:2)
Linux and Windows (Score:3)
I'm on my work computer 8+ hours/day; it runs Linux (Ubuntu) natively and Windows 7 in a VM.
My home PC runs Windows 7 and Ubuntu in a dual boot configuration, but I'm usually in Windows because games. Counting evening games/browsing and off-hours/moonlighting work, it's probably a close 2nd to my work computer in terms of hours of use.
My personal web server/NAS/SSH computer runs Ubuntu, behind a BSD firewall. I can get to this machine from anywhere I have internet access, including from my phone...
My phone runs Android. I have it by my side near 24/7, but I'm not using it all that time.
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Similar connundrum about "main computer".
Home Web/Mail/etc server - Debian on RPi; Laptop - dualboot Ubuntu/Win 10, with gaming on Ubuntu(wine), Win10 for functionality testing; Work laptop - Oracle Linux with Win7 VirtualBox.
Slackware (Score:4, Informative)
Missing as a direct option, I had to choose 'Other'.
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I'm with you. Slackware-64 on my primary computer. There are many non-rpm/non-deb based distributions out there.
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I feel left out too. Slackware 14.2 is all I use unless I'm forced to use Windows. Then I have a Windows 7 home edition still on my wife;s netbook. I love my wife and she does not use it at all. She's on her iPAD Mini and iPhone 4 all the time.
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+1. Slackware64 14.2 (a seamless upgrade from 14.1 and -current).
Arch (Score:3, Insightful)
"Main" Computers by Use Case (Score:2, Insightful)
Work: Ubuntu 16.04
NAS: FreeNAS
Laptop (School/Gaming: Windows 10
Phone: Android 6.0.1
iOS (Score:3)
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I'm guessing you're not an engineer then.
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I guess you're not a gamer then :-)
Re:iOS (Score:4, Insightful)
Should be an option for iOS and Android. (Score:2)
Since I imagine many normal user's probably don't even have an actual computer anymore, their Tablet and/or phablets do everything they need.
Manjaro (Arch-based) (Score:2)
DR-DOS 8.0 (Score:2)
Seriously -- every day. I use TASM and WLINK for my work, and an editor I first wrote in 1983 and I'm very very used to. Why change now?
Win7 for web-browsing, Win10 for CAD, and Slackware for my web server, but those aren't my "main" PCs.
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I'm very curious - what kind of software do you still develop with TASM and WLINK? Is it able to run on modern hardware?
Best window manager (Score:2)
I use linux (Score:4, Interesting)
But I use Gentoo. As with any modern cpu at most building packages only takes a couple of hours with only a couple of exceptions. Chromium and libreoffice.
It's system-d free so it does what i want, when i want it. Not if it feels like it.
WTF? Where am I? (Score:5, Funny)
A majority (37% right now!) of Slashdot users choose Windows as their primary operating system? What the hell happened to this site? I'm very confused...
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The poll didn't say "choose", it just asked what OS your main computer is running. A lot of people on this site will probably be given a laptop for their jobs and it may be easiest to just use that laptop as their main computer. If that laptop happens to run Windows, it happens to run Windows. The nice part about an employer owned Windows laptop is that when it inevitably goes to shit, you just walk it down to the IT guys desk and say, "It's broken". It's actually not a bad OS if you have an army of sup
Re:WTF? Where am I? (Score:4)
Speaking as someone who has a Windows laptop issued by my company, you're wrong. Even with an army of support staff it's STILL a bad OS. I tried for a while to use it as my primary computer, but the trade off of having to use windows all the time wasn't worth it.
My home computer has been one flavour or another of Linux for about 17 years now. At work though I don't have much choice, so it's windows 7.
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Who said I break things? The computer runs just "fine", it's just that the Windows definition of "fine" involves a lot less functionality, and a lot more patchwork than the Linux definition.
My IT department is great, but I shouldn't ever have to deal with them.
Linux "just works", I've never met a Windows install that could say the same.
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Windows has really cleaned up its act over the past ten years. I switched to Linux back in 2005 when Windows XP was basically unusable. When I started working at my current job several years later, my desktop was Windows-based. I was surprised at how stable Windows had become, and I eventually just switched over completely. I can't remember a single BSOD in the last 5 years, whereas they used to happen 5 times a day. These days, Windows just does its job and stays out of my way. I still run Debian on my off
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Right now, I'm using Windows 10. I did have Ubuntu on my desktop, but Doze kept fscking with my Dual Boot, so I finally gave up on it. I am playing around with both Fedora & Slackware on VMs, and when I can get a new laptop, I plan to make it pure Linux (no dual boot).
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"Windows 3.1/7/8/10"
I can just hear Windows 7 in there, screaming "WTF! Get me the hell out!"
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It just an operating system - a tool.
Blasphemer! Infidel!
-based? (Score:4, Insightful)
Is Debian itself "Debian-based"? I mean, technically (the best kind of correct), it is Debian, which is not quite the same as being "based on" Debian. There's a lot of things I'd describe as being "based on Shakespeare" (like the classic movie Forbidden Planet), but I would not describe Shakespeare's plays that way.
(This is Slashdot; we're supposed to pick minor nits, yes?) :D
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Surprisingly, the versions of Debian that most non-developers use are indeed based Debian. In particular, Debian stable is based on Debian testing and Debian testing is based on Debian unstable. You could argue that those are alpha/beta releases of Debian but, that's not actually how it works. For example, Ubuntu is based on Debian testing. Debian stable is also based on Debian testing. Is one "Debian-based" but the other isn't?
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Pretty much what I was going for, yeah. Needlessly, pointlessly pedantic. :)
The classics never die (Score:2)
ChromeOS (Score:2)
Windows 7, Windows 10 and Ubuntustudio (Score:2)
My main machine (HP z800) has multiple hard drives, one Win7 boot drive, one Win10 and a few Linux ones. Having an Icydock and hotswap bays it is as easy as changing floppies was. Many of my laptops boot Windows off their internal HDD, and Linux via either an Ssd in the optical bay, or off a Sandisk ultrafit micro USB stick.
How do you define "main" computer? (Score:2)
The one that's always doing something is running ESX, on top of that there are a few OpenBSD instances running most of my home infrastructure; various CentOS and Solaris instances for specific apps, and some vApps. I wouldn't count that as my "main" computer though because I've spent all of 3 hours at the console.
My work computer gets the most of my time and is on Windows, but I don't consider that my "main" computer either because it's not mine, it's work's.
The living room computer is running windows 10 w
Gentoo + Solaris (Score:2)
The definition of "main computer" is appropriately ambiguous. All the most important services are provided by the Solaris box. However, the Gentoo box is the machine I sit in front of when I'm home. When not at home, I still use the Sun box.
Always been a Windows guy, trying 10 right now (Score:2)
I'm very close to giving it the finger, very close. A lot of the tinfoil hat bullshit the 'crazy paranoid people' have theorised has come to pass or is rumoured.
I was quite happy with Windows 7, I installed 10 due to a weird anomaly on my PC, hoping it would fix it.
I do _not_ like that the Windows updates, the new 'big' rollup types they do are like an effective re-install of Windows, very different to previous ones, when they run, many settings which are difficult to find and fix are 'magically reset bac
iOS (Score:2)
Atari OS... (Score:2)
...you insensitive clod!
(Pretend I typed that in all caps, since Slashdot won't allow it. People still connect to the 'net from Commodore 64s, too, ya know. Bit bigots. :P )
Windows 10 (Score:2)
How dare you lump XP together with vista! (Score:2)
Windows XP Was a decent operating system and is not even in the same class as windows vista.
I remember that some companies and projects dropped support for windows vista before they did windows XP! It was that bad!
\end rant...maybe.
Re:Truly (Score:5, Insightful)
I would be surprised if anyone who used this site regularly considered their phone their primary computer. That's hipster marketing heresy.
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Well my mum and dad finally began to use computers and the internet. And they both have an iPhone as their primary computer. They never ever tried to use a computer in any form before smartphones. They were kind of computophobic and refused to come near a computer, whether it was a desktop or a laptop. Now when they are retired and nearing their seventieth birthday they are swiping the whole evening instead of watching television and even text each other before they talk (because they have to learn how to text, is the excuse).
My Grandma was 90 when she started using email and Facebook; her main computer is an iPad.
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Then she can chose "other" when she logs on to slashdot.
Honestly, this site doesn't really cater to that crowd, if they want to participate that's fine, but I don't think they're likely to be a big enough demographic to move "other" to first place.
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Telecom guys....
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Solaris, really?
you have USB3.0 support yet?
Haven't said this in years....call me when you have a real operating system....
get off my lawn
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If you, personally, can afford the pricing for an AS/400, my compliments.
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My workplace just retired its AS/400 in favor of PCs. Though I haven't worked on that in ages.
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On which you preferably build custom packaged software with or without the help of sbotools or sbopkg.
Anyway,
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If any, it's Valve that is the most successfull in getting Linux to be a viable gaming platform.
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How is vulkan, another cross-platform 3D api, a lower-level successor to OpenGL gonna change Linux gaming ?
Vulkan isn't a lower-level successor to OpenGL, it is a high level successor to OpenGL. It even includes elements that were meant to be in OGL2.5 and 3.0(remember that clusterfuck?). But how is it going to change linux gaming? The same way that you no longer need a hodgepodge wrapper system in order to make the game work. In otherwords, same performance or better then DX with no overhead to make it work.
If any, it's Valve that is the most successful in getting Linux to be a viable gaming platform.
Valve has done a great job no doubt, but the biggest problems in linux gaming have to do with video d
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Have any keywords I could search for about the OGL mess? I remember it being stagnant for a while, but I don't remember any of the details.
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Any possibility you could give me a copy of that?