Your Desktop OS?

[Carpetsmoker]

I am curious, what do you use as your day-to-day desktop OS?

[DrJ]

Only one choice? If so, FreeBSD. However, I spend a lot of time in a W2K and an XP VM, and on W2K and XP "real" systems. It is probably split 80% BSD, 20% Windows, but when I need Windows, there is no BSD equivalent.

[anomie]

FreeBSD desktop at home and at work.

I also have a laptop that's been through a flurry of operating systems -- currently it is running CentOS 4. (The laptop allows me to work from a non-west facing room when the temperature peaks at 103 here every single afternoon.)

[Nirbo]

FreeBSD mostly. Some Vista for the occasional bit of gaming.

More often than not lately, I've been formatting every other week. Usually between BSD, Vista, and the Linux du jour (I like to watch things compile/install while I read :O Relaxing!).

Today is my day off and I'm considering playing with Hackintosh <3.

[Oliver_H]

Slackware, FreeBSD at home and Mac OS X ... well I have to :D

[scottro]

I had to vote for Linux since it's my workstation at work. At home, though, I'm still spending a good deal of time on my FreeBSD desktop. On the other hand, my super duper new machine runs Linux, but I haven't moved everything over to there yet.

[BSDfan666]

I'm using OpenBSD on all my workstations, and my router/firewall, it's a dream. :cool:

[JMJ_coder]

Hello,

Currently, Slackware is my primary Desktop OS. As I continue to learn NetBSD and get it more fully configured, I may migrate over to it as my primary Desktop OS - in fact, that is my current goal.

[greencross]

Most of the time FreeBSD. I use double boot with Ubuntu, and sometimes go visit him. :D Just to remind him he's alive.

[mish]

Dual-boot station with OpenBSD 4.3-current and FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p1

[lvlamb]

Mainly OpenBSD and another WinXP multi-booting workstation (tired of emulating) for those apps that require specific OSes, or @!&%#$ flash, or some OO uno packages.

If I need a difficult-to-install-from-sources application, and that binaries are available for, say, WinXP, OSX or FC5, might as well grab a FC5 distro and install it on a slice (or say Oracle on "unbreakable" :rolleyes:).

Basically, spreadsheets, mail, browsers, database, archives on OpenBSD, so that is my desktop I guess.
What does not run on OpenBSD, the lazy I am boots the WinXP,
any*nux beyond that.
What I prefer, or like, does not matters.
Sometimes, getting the job done even needs specifix hardware for specific OSes. So be it!
Fwiw, the explosion engine is obsolete since more than a century. Haven't got much choice either would I need a car. :mad:

[Dazhelpwiz]

openbsd 4.3 on my tower at home, XP/freebsd7 dual boot on the laptop.

[ddekok]

My primary "desktop" OS has moved from FreeBSD to Gentoo Linux. Two reasons really. The first is that I can run Gentoo on my Inspiron 6400, and the second is I need Flash9 working properly for work.

Given that it's a Dell, I'd be willing to ditch the hardware for something that will run FreeBSD, but it is that Flash9 requirement that keeps getting me. Damn you Adobe!

[mtx]

mac os x as a primary desktop on a mac notebook. pc-bsd on my workstation at work, used to double booted with ubuntu until it crashed for no good reason :(.

/v

[vermaden]

I have FreeBSD 7.0 workstation @ work, but I try a lot of things at my Quad Core testing ground @ home: Solaris / OpenSolaris / Mac OS X / Linux ...

[horizon]

Windows XP at work, Debian at home (like ddekok I can't live without Flash 9 and had problems getting it to work with FreeBSD) - and buying a MacBook Pro rather soon. I think once I get the MacBook my Debian box will be reverted back to FreeBSD and become a headless fileserver.

[udragon]

I used to have a FreeBSD 6.x workstation, but due to some HDD failures I had to rebuild the desktop machine.

My current (main) desktop is an OpenSUSE 10.3, and my second one is a PC-BSD.

I chose SUSE/PC-BSD over bare FreeBSD mainly because I didn't want to spend allot of time configuring & compiling things as I used to.

Currently I still have 2 unused 160GB HDD's
(the new ones I got from Seagate as a replacement for the dead ones)

The final idea is to revive my old configuration :

SATA HDD1 160GB: PC-BSD 7.0 main desktop
SATA HDD2 160GB: data drive (documents, pictures, mp3, etc..)
PATA HDD3 80GB: Eperimental. Lnx partitions, FreeBSD7 'bleeding edge' partition, etc...
PATA HDD4 40GB: Backup drive for daily/weekly backups, burned to DVD 2 times a year.

[nero]

Opensolaris on an IBM S51 box. Since it is new and doesn't have everything I need yet, I supplement using programs on a Dell Ubuntu box (broken by recent upgrade) or using ProTech 1, with Xfce (my favorite), on my much older Dell laptop. 'Gave M$ the finger quite a while ago.

[Mare]

At Work:
I use a Core2Duo box running FreeBSD 7.0 and a 180Mhz R5k SGI Indy Running IRIX.

At Home:
I have a Core2Duo box running FreeBSD 7.0 for routing/firewall/fileserver/desktop/etc and another Core2Duo running XP for Games.

Can't wait for the day that Wine can run all Direct X games well enough, I'd drop Windows in a flash :D

[Nightweaver]

FreeBSD 7 on my laptop. OpenBSD 4.3 on home computer.

[nihonto]

@work: WinXP

@home: Triple-boot with Debian (main OS), OpenBSD 4.3 -current (for playing around and learning OpenBSD) and Win XP (for ITunes & tax computation).

[mfaridi]

I have two Desktop in my Office , one of them use OpenBSD 4.2 and another use FreeBSD 7

I home I use FreeBSD 7

[jggimi]

My preferred workstation is OpenBSD. But -- work requires Windows, even though most servers are commercial Unix variants. Some personal hardware (Bluetooth, FireWire, Winmodem for faxing) also require Windows, so my personal laptop is set to multiboot.

[stukov]

Workstation at home & work: ubuntu.
Laptop: Windows XP with iTunes only installed (damned DRMs)

[marcolino]

At work: Win2k
At home: Win2k for games, OpenBSD for e-mail, nntp reading, etc.

[lvlamb]

Seems that we are Windows plus ... (fill in the blank). :p
One remark about *BSD users is that most accept and try to live with the Redmond thinghie.
Thanks gawd, we have PuTTY and ssh. ;)

[drhowarddrfine]

Entirely FreeBSD until just a couple of weeks ago when I put Windows on my only notebook. Sole purpose is to watch online Netflix and some Flash stuff that's not entertainment. I hate every minute of it since it used to have FreeBSD and I'd do everything from it, working seamlessly between it and the desktops and servers.

[TerryP]

Curse you !!! (Carpetsmoker)

My 'destop' runs three OSes at all times, Windows XP (Gaming), GNU/Linux (testing/recovery), and a *BSD (testing). I only boot Windows on it regularly because multi-booting is a pain. especially on a PC that's mostly their for gaming.

Being my only personal desktop, that makes Windows XP my primary desktop OS and gaming OS.


However !!!!


I do almost everything worth counting on my laptop, which runs PC-BSD and is used much like a standard FreeBSD machine.

[s0xxx]

Used to be FreeBSD 7 (will be again), now NetBSD -current and very soon OpenBSD -current in multiple boot laptop. Testing lots of stuff. ;)
I also have Windows XP (my wife playing spider game and me doing stuff in MS Access).

Interestingly, as much as I want[ed] to try out GNU/Linux distros none of them have stayed more than a few days on my laptop. :)

[Bitweiler]

NetBSD @ home and on my laptop :P
Since that's what I'm most comfortable with.

[algkalv]

FreeBSD/amd64 at home. FreeBSD & NetBSD at work on two intel machines.

[ua549]

Home notebook runs Windows Vista Business.
Home desktop runs FreeBSD 7.0.
Home server runs FreeBSD 7.0.

I'm a FreeBSD newbie still attempting to make the desktop and server systems functional.
The learning curve is very steep.
I'm retired; I have no work machines.

[windependence]

I use Mac OSX as my desktop on a macbook pro. When I need Windoze I run XP in a VM on VMware fusion on my macbook, almost native speed. I like the fact that I can get to Darwin when necessary and do the down and dirty stuff. Just crack open a terminal and ssh to my FreeBSD or Linux boxes.

-Tim

[ninjatux]

Mac OS X and FreeBSD, well FreeBSD for tinkering and development.

[18Googol2]

No option to pick more than 1 OS? :-S

Mine: it gotta be FreeBSD and probably Solaris 10 in a week :)

[Oko]

OpenBSD on all my Desktops and Laptops. I would run it even on my toaster but my wife has installed NetBSD on it.

[unicyclist]

Primarily OpenBSD and then FreeBSD. I have linux on computers for flash or other video/movie clips from unicycling and/or family.
MS for the irritating and occasional powerpoint junk (mostly) I get sent :(

[Genesis]

Currently I'm stuck on Windows XP Home Edition.. Soon to be Gentoo Linux hopefully. Then will be setting up my little home test network with machines running *bsd. (:

[ninjatux]

Openoffice has become quite mature, and Powerpoint files work very well on it. Apart from the rare misalignment during playback on MS Powerpoint, Openoffice lets you develop presentations very easily too.

Genesis, I'd stay away from Gentoo Linux, if you could. I used Gentoo for two years, and it's become a mess. If I had to use Linux, then I'd pick Slackware or Fedora Core. I have heard very nice things about Arch as well, which may be worth a shot.

[asmo]

I use FreeBSD 7.0 on my laptop and Debian GNU/Linux "testing" on my desktop. I tried to run FreeBSD on desktop, but I had several problems with drivers (especially errors with intel_hda and strange CD warnings). Now I'm happy Debian user. The main advantage of Debian as desktop for me is that it supports easy to use Virtualbox. I can make a lot of tests with BSDs on a virtual machine without a big effort.

[valqk]

Hello,
I'm sitting in front of Debian lenny/sid all day long.
I'm using IceWM for my desktop.
Althought I'm using Linux as my desktop, I have more than 3 tabs on my terminal opened and logged into at least 3 6.3 systems and few linuxes...
so maybe it's 60% linux and 40% fbsd :)

I'm going to give netbsd a try because I've tested it at 1.4 version and fbsd doesn't currently run xen (and I need it!)

[mdh]

I should've booted up my NeXT just so that I could be the first "Other BSD" voter. ;)

[BSDfan666]

Curious, why didn't you vote mdh? ;)

Anyway, I envy your ownership of a NeXT system.. would be fun.

[ninjatux]

NeXT, wow, that's so awesome.

[fbsduser]

M$ Linux
NetBSD 4
Darwin 8 ppc
(Damn, why not a multichoicde poll).

[mdh]

Curious, why didn't you vote mdh? ;)

Anyway, I envy your ownership of a NeXT system.. would be fun.

Well, I voted FreeBSD. FreeBSD is what I find myself sitting in front of on a day-to-day basis.

I've actually got an old SPARCStation 1+ as well, with a 17mhz Weitek CPU. It still runs, as well, and has an old version of OpenBSD on its 2gig SCSI-2 hard drive. Takes a while to negotiate SSH keys to login. ;)

Edit: 4.3BSD protip: you have system binaries like route(1) in /etc. F'real.

[Turophile]

I am curious, what do you use as your day-to-day desktop OS?

My laptop is my primary use PC (Ubuntu atm because I ran out of time trying to fix a problem and needed it fast without a net connection ... desperate times); my desktop may run Vista x64 Ultimate but a similar thing - I need it for certain apps (Adobe Acrobat 9 Pro, for instance), and I use it, mostly, for VirtualBox VMs at the moment and some light gaming with friends if I find any time at all.

[harisman]

*At work*
Windows XP on my deskop (that's my company's policy :( )
I administer Redhat & Centos 4.X & 5.X servers and I am trying to persuade them to use FreeBSD :D

*At home*
FreeBSD 6.3 i386 RELEASE on my server/router pc
FreeBSD 7.0 i386 RELEASE on my desktop with windowmaker as main window manager

[Crypt]

my main home machine is a triple boot with Ubuntu, vista and xp pro...my second machine is xp pro...
my main work computer is xp pro
my laptop is used both at work and home and has vista on it...thinking of dual booting it with vista and arch linux or vista and a BSD...once i get it figured ou i'll let you know

[Kunohara]

Dual boot Mac OS X leopard and OpenBSD 4.4 on an iBook

[Randux]

I used to multiboot Slackware, all the BSDs, and some other stuff but that box died of a heart attack.

My main desktop is Slackware for the foreseeable future although I'm searching for a good 64 bit OS for a second box.

[ninjatux]

My FreeBSD desktop is becoming my server and remote workstation now. I generally use it for testing and programming via SSH (X forwarding enabled). However, Mac OS X has become my desktop operating system of choice, given that college and better quality artwork have changed which applications I need.

[Oliver_H]

The same procedure as last year: something Linux - most of the time Slack -, FreeBSD, OpenBSD at some machines and OpenSolaris for my personal pleasure ;-) The main thing is, it's free :-)