Which OS's have you tried?

[Jazzed]

Just wondering......

I have been with Microsoft since MS-Dos way back on the old 486 with 4MB of ram :) been through 95, 98, ME and W2K.

Of the above systems, W2K is definatley the one I use (and enjoy) the most. Work has migrated to it and we now support around 800 users on it. ALOT less hassle than the mixed 95 and NT4 system we were running before.

As far as other OS's have tried a few different Linux distro's....

Slackware, Debian, RedHat, Mandrake. Of these RH was the easiest to install and configure and get up and running. Still a newb as far as doing anything within Linux that isnt a mouse click away :)

Been reading a bit about BSD and am thinking of giving FreeBSD a crack...anyone out there tried it?

anyway hi ho hi ho......

[whetu]

dos, 3.11, 95, 98, Me, NT4, 2k, whistler, neptune (ms projects, both merged and eventually became xp), xp, mandrake, redhat, smoothwall, lrp, beos, macos, free/net/openBSD... i have the aethos installer lying about here somewhere but ive yet to try that... i'm still keen as beans to find a copy of NT3.51 and give that a shot to see what things were like wayback when...

bsd... give it a shot, i dont think you'll be disappointed if youre a seasoned lunix user...

[GriffiN]

dos, 3.11, 95, 98, Me, 2k, XPpro & home - linux redhat & mandrake... but haven't used those much at all - the installs constantly stuffed up and i gave up after a few days of hassel.

[Geek4Life]

DOS, 3.11, 95, 98, ME, 2000, QNX.

But only really used 95 and 98 before.

/edit what OS did the Atari 520ST use?

[SilverPriest]

Err, PC OS's right.
DR-DOS-6.11 (i think), win3.1, win3.11, win95, win98SE, NT4, win2k

And that is pretty much it.
These are the OS's i have used on my personal system.
I have had a play with teh lunix on other pc's, but not for me....

[fatsanchez]

Other
Slackware 7/8, Redhat 6/7/7.1/7.2, Debian potato, mandrake 8.2
Atheos 0.3.4?
beos
menuetos
geos (go c64!)

Microsoft
dos 3.12 or something, with win 1.02 and then 2.0 on xt laptop
dos 6.22 and win 3.1/3.11 486-66
win nt 4 sp3 on 486 *shudder*
win95/98 on 486 and new puter
win me (for a few days)
winxp

And i wouldent mind giving nt3.51, win2k and netbsd a go.

[varkk]

CP/M, MS-DOS(several versions from 4.0x to 6.22) MS Win 3.1/3.11, 95, 98SE, ME, NT4, XP pro/home, Solaris 8, and REDHAT from version 5 to 7.3

[-=DEI[]v[]OS=-]

AMIGA DOS !!!!......sigh....the good ol' days :D
DOS
Win3.11
Win95
Win98
WinMe
Win2k
WinXP

And I played with BeOS, Redhat 6.2 and Mandrake 8.1

[asanthadenz]

DOS
Win 3.11
Win 95
Win 98
Win98se
Win Me
Win 2000
Win XP Pro

[Jazzed]

forgot the good old days of computer studies in the late 80's.......
AMSTRADS ROCK! heh heh heh

[GooGlo]

various verions of dos
Windows 3.10
Windows 3.11
Windows 95 A,B and C
Windows NT 3.51
Windows NT 4.0
Windows 98
Windows 98 Second edition
Windows Me
Windows 2000
Windows Whistler
Windows XP home
Windows XP Pro
Linux Redhat
Linux mandrake
Linux debian
Linux Caldera
Linux Slackware

Mmmm, think thats it...

Personal preference would be 2k. Its XP without the BS.

[Glycerine]

Win 3.1(1)
Win 95(b or c)
Win 98
Win 98SE
Win ME
Win NT
Win 2000
Win XP Pro
Redhat

At the moment i use Win XP Pro :)

[Binky Stunt Cat]

PC Geo (on a 386)
Win 3.11
Win 95
Win 98SE
Win 2k
Mac OS 9
Mac OS 7

[Viper_NZ]

MS-DOS (most versions of)
DR-DOS
Win 3.1/3.11
WinNT4
Win95
Win98/SE
WinMe
Win2k
WinXP
Linux Mandrake
Linux Redhat
Caldera Openlinux
Corel Linux
Lycoris/Redmondlinux
ELX Linux
tinkered with various other Linux distributions briefly
BeOS 5

If you count the C64 then....

C64 BASIC
C64 GeOS

and..

Amiga DOS


I'm sure I'm missing some.. but that'll do

[KingJackal]

MS:
MS-DOS ( 5, 6 )
Win 3.11
WinNT4
Win95
Win98/SE
WinMe
Win2k
WinXP Pro

Linux
Linux Redhat 7.1
Linux Mandrake 6.1
Linux Mandrake 8.1

Other 'nix derivatives
Solaris
Minix
Mac OSX

Have been most impressed with WinME, WinXP Pro and all 3 Linux distro's.
Didn't really like Solaris, Minix ( though it WAS pretty 1337 ;) ) or Mac OSX - though I haven't spent much time with OSX.

[Ripping]

Some MAC thing years ago
MSDOS a couple of variations
3.1
3.11Win95b
Win98SE
RH Linux
5.1
5.2
6.1
6.2
7.2
7.3
(a glutton for punishment!)

and that QNX thing the other day
which didn't see my network card, didn't see my mouse... goodbye!
;)

[Scorched]

Am I the only one here who's used OS/2 (from 1st release through to Warp 4.5 e-commerce).

[Humantuckshop]

Apple II CV777 basic I/O Operating system
Amiga DOS
MS-DOS - a couple of versions
Windows 3.1
Windows '95
Windows ' 98SE
Windows ME

And also QNX that didn't find my USB Optical. And it ran like a three legged dog....

[Deviant]

Not including Apple, Amiga, ZX81, ZX Spectrum.

Then:
DOS 5-6.1
Windows 3.10,3.11
Win95, 98, 98SE, ME
NT4
Win2k
Win XP
QNX

[swiftynz]

ZX Spectrum :D
DOS 4 - 6.22
Windows 2.0, 3.0, 3.11
Windows 95 (several versions), 98 & 98se, ME
Windows NT4 sp4, NT4 sp6, 2000, 2000sp1, 2000sp2
Windows XP Pro
Redhat 6.2, 7.1

Macs:
System 6.x, 7.x (x= cant remember exactly what ver)
OS 8.x, 9, 9.1, 10, 10.1

Played with:
Mandrake 8.2
OS/2 Warp 4 :p
BeOS
Windows XP RC1, Home

[whetu]

oh.. including cbm machines...

commodore basic, amiga dos, workbench 1.3 and workbench 2.0

[Control_Phreak]

First 'PC' Computer (386 25mhz):

w00t, used to rock for BBS (who else remembers LORD? ;))

Dos
3.11


Second PC (Pentium 120):

Win95
Win98
OpebBSD 3.0
OpenBSD 3.1 *current*


Third (Celly 333):

Win98
win98SE
winME
Win2k *current*
Redhat 6.2


Forth (XP1800):

Win98SE
Win2k
WinXP *current*
Mandrake 8 / 8.2
Slackware

[mird-OC]

Windows
Windows 2.0
Windows 3.0
Windows 3.1
Windows 3.11
Windows 3.11 FWG
Windows 95 (a b c)
Windows 98 (and SE)
Windows ME
Windows NT 3.5x
Windows NT 4.0
Windows 2K
Windows XP

Linux
Slackware
Redhat
Mandrake
OpenLinux
Debian

Others
CP/M
MS-DOS (various versions)
DR-DOS
PC-DOS
OpenDOS
OS/2 2.1 -> Warp 4 (awesome OS for it's time, especially Warp)
MacOS (various versions)
IRIX

yeah i think that's it... plus apple2, c64, amiga, amstrad etc etc :)

[TheCrow]

DOS
Win 3.1
Win 95
Win 98
Win 98SE
Win 2K

[TheChosen_1]

Win 3.1, win95, win 98, win me, mandrake, win 2k (current), win XP,

[TheChosen_1]

Oh also Ms-Dos how could I forget Dos:(

[Agent666]

on a bit of a side note whos going to try Lindows ........

used

dos (lots of versions)
win98
winME
winXPpro

[matthew]

on a bit of a side note whos going to try Lindows ........


me! :)

[Wibber]

yay! lord! someone should make a web version

[mird-OC]

Originally posted by Wibber
yay! lord! someone should make a web version
i've been thinking the exact same thing... i was actually even going to write one but then i remembered i'm a lazy ass :)

[Sydog]

Apple IIE:

Dunno the os

386:

Dos
3.1

486:

Dos
Win95

P150:

Dos
Win95
Win98Se

P200:

Dos
Win98Se

PII 400:

Dos
Win98Se

PIII 866:

Win2k
Redhat 7.2

Durrie 800:

Win2k
Win XP Pro

P4 1.6:

Win2k
Win Xp Pro
Redhat 7.3

AMD XP 1700+:

Win XP Pro

[NNA2m]

Windows 95, 98 and 98SE mainly...

Also dabbled in DOS, BeOS, Mandrake, XP Pro, some of theNT family and Mac-something-or-other, but not for an extended amount of time...

I'm currently trying out Red Hat, and I like what I see, or would if I could get the goddamn modem working properly... :rolleyes:

[Stove]

Lessee:

BASIC
FSDOS (proprietary DOS: Foundation Systems)
Dos 3.1
Dos 3.3 (still have on 5 1/4 floppys if ya want it ;-)
AmigaDOS
Win95, 95B
Win98, 98SE
Windows 2000 (running on this PC here at work: Duron800)
Windows XP Pro (Home PC: Athlon 1200)
played with:
Corel Linux
Redhat
Mandrake

XP Pro is my present favourite, but haven't had a good enough play with Linuix yet

[p01s0n_p1e]

i is used
micro$uck
Some dos version/win 3.11 (what i grew up on *sob*)
95
98
2000
xp

Linus
Mandrake for like, a week before i got sick of no internet

crap/budget
the allmighty Beos!
the whopping capabilitys of qnx- 5 mins before i got sick of some crap called chinese towers or something, didnt have lan, wasnt interested :D

[Tiggerz]

All of the windows ones (1, 2, 3 3.1 etc. nt all, xp, 2k etc).. all of the dos ones including most of the spin-offs. cdos, mdos, drdos, novell dos, caldera etc.

Xenix, linux, sco, os/400 360, vm/cms, some old quaint digital ones.. some old quaint ibm ones. netware (1, 2, 3, 4)

mac, beos, a couple I wrote once for fun..

my favorite would have been cpm and probably dos 3.3 (reverse engineer and enable the network and multitask features).

pretty much all do the same thing, some just have different bells and whistles.