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I'm currently running Windows 98 (First Edition), but I'm hoping to put Windows 2000 on something soon. Also, I'm looking into purchasing a computer (not necessarily new, but one that will run fairly fast) and putting Red Hat (7.3) Linux on it, just to screw around with.
I know, I know, you've shown me them before. It's too much hassle to back up everything and then to reinstall a whole new OS. As I said before, I just cant be bothered...
Well its a bit unfair to say *nix is the best and thats all about it.
One thing to remeber is that while lots of programmers use PC's supplied by there company and these PC's have OS company wide, therefor its usually better to develop programmes on the same type of system that the programmes are goin to be running on.
The point is - use the right tool for the job, if that tool is *nix then fine, but it cannot possibly be the right tool for every job.
this poll is skewed! you can select more than one option when voting, but the votes only add up to 100% so the first vote is probably taken, which is why the first choice is so high. Everyone likes linux, but i think a lot of people would choose windows also because its an OS that most have to use.
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At our company we use Debian Linux for most servers, Redhat on a few. Though I absolutely love Linux, recently we got a new line of server to do test products on and I have been playing with FreeBSD's JAIL environment.
For the most part JAIL is relatively new, however, it's features are unparalleled. Last night I managed to configure Frontpage 2002 extensions with the various security wrappers in a manner which works with our control panel (written in php!) -- the only "uncool" part was patching suexec -- unhappy with that, though security level hasn't been effected. People running BSD probably have all kinds of ogod things to say about JAIL, I hope to be one of them soon.
I run debian linux as my desktop with a win-xp partition (... easy now.... it's just for counter-strike...).
It's 9:23 p.m, I am alone in the office making coffee. I was trashed today by Crafty (the chess program) 4 times in 30 minutes. I deleted it.
I am a proud windows user for dev and a proud COBALT SUN user for servers (might go to the new IBM web appliance soon though).
As I work from home and I choose my OS I can't say anyone forced me to use windows. It is not because everyone says that Microsoft is THE EVIL corporation that I won't use and actually pay for their products.
If it wasn't for Microsoft, we'd prolly all still be running Apple computers (former Apple II e addict loooong time ago :P) and I'd prolly be a McDonald cook or a security officer in a bank or something...
THANK YOU MICROSOFT
PS : Wouldn't dream of using IIS or running a real server on Windows though
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