Aspies For Freedom

I chose other because of my cross-platform LAN:
FreeBSD 5.4 (specifically PC-BSD http://www.pcbsd.org)
Solaris 9
SuSE Linux 7.1
Fedora Core 3 Linux (on 2 machines)
FreeDOS
Cisco IOS

As you've probably guessed, i'm a UNIX guy, but i like more obscure systems too. I remember when i used FreeDOS to run a telnetd and ftpd. I also remember the QNX realtime platform (QNX is just amazing, but hardware support is a little bit crap) and BeOS. I could never get my video, sound and network working properly in BeOS.

Anyone here ever used GNU Hurd or the L4 microkernel?

I use... typically whatever I last installed. I naturally gravitate to Linux, but I usually maintain a dual-boot with Windows so I can use Photoshop, etc., and I don't bother to restore GRUB until I've got a good reason. I can't be bothered trying to make WINE work.

I'm using Windows XP right now. I would be using a lot more of Ubuntu 5.04 if they had bothered to put a rescue mode on the install CD :mad:

I could get all my old stuff working in BeOS (I recently upgraded) but could never get it installed properly, because it didn't want to go into the partition I'd set aside for it. Maybe it doesn't even support extended partitions?!?!

I've had a play with FreeSBIE, which was quite cool - better than Knoppix, etc, anyway. OS/2 Warp and weird DOS clones have also been on various boxes.

Can't say I have. I'm waiting for it to get a bit more mature - and I daresay I might be waiting forever!

I tried GNU Hurd briefly, essentially just to ping a few random hosts.

I use the GIMP if I can't use Photoshop. The GIMP really isn't suitable for serious image editing/creation work - mostly due to things like lack of layer effects, and a few other little things - but it's fine so long as the task isn't too taxing.

I've used the GIMP a few times - though it is nice to have the features in a piece of free software, the user interface is far too confusing sometimes. We need more decent photo-editing software for open-source operating systems.

I prefer, and use Linux, the only reason being is that it's far more stable than windows.  I was using windows 98se before i changed to Linux and i had too many crashes and BSODs.  I now am happy with linux and had no problems with it,though it is running a bit slow due to my machine only having 64MB RAM at the moment, something which is easily repairable, and i'm also in the process of trying to build another machine, which will also run Linux, i never want to install windows on any of my machines again

I use Windows at work, either Windows 95, Windows ME, or Windows XP, depending on the computer i'm using which sucks big time

Gareth - you might like GimpShop.

I PRAISE YOU!

Hmm, seems only to have an OSX binary package.

Fancy compiling GIMP from source? :smile: I'll stick with my GIMPy GIMP tools, nothing wrong with em.

There's a few RPM's and I've got a working Windows version - the links are pretty well hidden though!

OS X is pretty cool -  a mass-market BSD-based OS which newbies can use without knowing a thing about UNIX. I'd love to get myself an apple powerbook at some point, would make a nice upgrade from my current x86 laptop i use for uni.

Windows is from a technical and security viewpoint the worst mass-market OS on the planet - but unfortunately the most popular. Hence why most games are released only for windows.

This doesn't make windows itself any better, it just means the game developers should release for other platforms.

Personally I prefer sun workstations where possible, but PC or Mac is mainly a matter of personal taste, Windows VS *nix is more a matter of "what do you want to do with it?" and "how important is reliability and security?"

But, tis your computer.

I'm mainly a Win32 guy because I play a bucketload of games every day. From FS2004 to NFS Most Wanted. That's a little hard doing in a virtual machine on Unix.

For the servers I'd prefer Debian, I've handled a few dozen Debian rigs so I kinda know how it works. At the local computer club (Of which I'm going to be in the board) we run mostly Free-, Open- and NetBSD with an odd one out OSX (An old G3 but we're planning on getting a new Mini)... But because of lack of good image of the Unix variants (At the moment we're in a crisis since the club, Stack, doesn't appeal enough to regular students) so we're putting down one or two Win32 machines with the possibility for people to plug in their laptops. The university is running *everything* on Win32.

That's my impression of Macs too. Just point and click like the good old Win3.11 days. The only system I actually work on at the Stack room right now is an old G3 (300 MHz!) running OSX. Actually runs pretty smooth!