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25 Jul 2010, 1:15 am

Windows 7 Ultimate, Ubuntu 10.04 dual boot using wubi. Debian, Centos, Freebsd on virtual box.


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25 Jul 2010, 2:05 am

Arch Linux 64bit



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26 Jul 2010, 3:02 am

Windows 7 X64 Pro



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26 Jul 2010, 6:02 am

This one's a Windows XP SP3

The other's a Ubuntu Lucid Lynx

Take your pick



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26 Jul 2010, 11:01 am

Debian Lenny using default kernel 2.6.26.


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26 Jul 2010, 9:00 pm

khelben1979 wrote:
Debian Lenny using default kernel 2.6.26.


You need to get with the times, bro. 2.6.34 is where it is at.



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27 Jul 2010, 3:15 am

windows 98SE.



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30 Jul 2010, 6:05 am

Fedora and Slackware.



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30 Jul 2010, 1:09 pm

Ubuntu 10.04. I've always meant to try Arch, but never seem to get around to it.


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30 Jul 2010, 6:02 pm

Ubuntu, Windows Vista. and Windows 7 (triple boot)



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31 Jul 2010, 2:28 pm

Kubuntu 8.04. I'm lazy to upgrade. Also Win XP for games here and there.



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02 Aug 2010, 6:05 am

Windows 7 X64 Ultimate
Windows XP Pro
Windows XP Home (It's on some netbook)



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02 Aug 2010, 5:58 pm

Ubuntu 10.04 is my main OS, but I have Windows 7 Ultimate in a virtual machine.


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02 Aug 2010, 6:04 pm

lxuser wrote:
Fedora and Slackware.

How would you compare the two? Is Slackware as painful to set up as its reputation? Does it have any friendlier forks?


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02 Aug 2010, 6:58 pm

Not my post you quoted, by I'll give my $0.02 as well having tried both: Fedora great is for people who want an OS that just works. Slackware is great for people who want to make their OS work... and it will return the favor.



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03 Aug 2010, 7:53 am

I use Windows 7 and Linux Mint. Most of the software I need for work and university is Windows only, some of it does work with WINE, but I just find it's easier to use it under Windows. I keep Linux around because I like learning about it and getting my hands dirty (I use Mint specifically at the moment because I wanted to try it to see if I could survive on one of these "desktop friendly" distros as my main OS - before that I had a Debian partition). Most of the programming I do is done under Linux, rather than on Windows (aside from Visual Basic, obviously). I find it's easier to just bring up Linux on my laptop to knock up a quick Perl script rather than try and battle with Cygwin on Windows.