Thread: Which OS do you use??

i have been primarily using xp since its release - i have tried different versions and service packs and some modified xps from the net ...

i have always used windows.whther it was 95,then 98 then xp and now vista.
i find vista the best among the lot.

windows 7 beta is very cool OS. i think u must start with this

Originally Posted by ag_prasun

i have always used windows.whther it was 95,then 98 then xp and now vista.
i find vista the best among the lot.

well if u talk of the complete hierarchy of OS s used ... here is mine:

i have used them all

win 95
win 98
win 98se
win nt
win 2000
win me
win xp home
win xp pro sp1
win xp pro sp2
win xp pro sp3
windows server 2003
vista ...

still to use server 2008 ... but these days dont get much time to do the experiments ...

did u separately install xp with sp1 sp2 and sp3???
and did you wait for the actual SPs or downloaded the hacks??

wat do mean by hacks here?... of course i used actual SPs

first of all i used win xp home ... by the time i decided to shift to xp pro ..sp1 was released ... so i downloaded a version with in built sp1 ...

then after sp2 was releases i downloaded it separaltely and installed it ...but faced some problems .... then i realized that its better not to install SPs separately ... from then on i only download XP with built in SPs in it ...

Originally Posted by DM111PUSP

I have used most of them(from the above list), but i still like Windows 98..

i also like windows 98 but the GI(Graphical Interface) of win 98 was very old now in present time.............

The only OS I have ever used is XP...& I'm gonna stick with it forever

Originally Posted by powerdoc

The only OS I have ever used is XP...& I'm gonna stick with it forever

are you gonna leave using PCs after 2-3 years?? :lol: ... sticking with one OS forever is something nobody can be sure of.

Originally Posted by powerdoc

The only OS I have ever used is XP...& I'm gonna stick with it forever

what if they give you windows 7 oem for free??
will you stick with xp then too??

Originally Posted by ag_prasun

what if they give you windows 7 oem for free??
will you stick with xp then too??

Microsoft giving their flagship product for free :38::38:

Never gonna happen :6:

MS management will :gun_bandana: themselves before they do anything like that :innocent:

say for pd, they give 'em a chance !!

just thought of it!!what if someone else can provide it for free??
what then??

Originally Posted by ag_prasun

say for pd, they give 'em a chance !!

just thought of it!!what if someone else can provide it for free??
what then??

it was not going to happen my friend........just because the whole union of those companies wont allow the person to give such things for free...........

Originally Posted by ag_prasun

say for pd, they give 'em a chance !!

just thought of it!!what if someone else can provide it for free??
what then??

maybe on a wild impossible dream it might happen :bored: but i don't think its gonna happen however wild the dream might be.

heck man, they are not even thinking of reducing the price of the damn license of Windows 7. Of course its a little too early for me to comment on that but who knows I might be correct (that's a scary thought)

They might release support products like Defender, IE and so on free of cost but their OS, not in a million or billion or trillion or...... years :thumbup:

well the company wont provide it for sure..maybe someone else could??

let us c pd answer this??

pd.open to you mate!!

Originally Posted by ag_prasun

well the company wont provide it for sure..maybe someone else could??

There are 100 % chances that is going to happen except it won't "someone", it will be a "lot of them"

So PD, what's it gonna be

Originally Posted by ag_prasun

what if they give you windows 7 oem for free??
will you stick with xp then too??

You might not be far off from the truth, atleast people want it that way unk:

I got three hard drives

In my 160GB drive i have two operating systems in dual boot
1. Windows XP Professional SP3
2. Windows 2008 Server Standard Edition

In my second 500GB drive i have Linux Enterprise Server edition

And the other 500Gb is full of movies..................

i have windows vista home premium running in my laptop with Ububtu and XP in vmware. Also backtrack in USB.

and i patch all of them regularly

Xp

Not very fond of vista(all the garbage), xp customized to the max, looks like an alien OS.

For LINUX, always do the R&D , so install time and again . Generally keep Mandriva, latest is the Mandriva 2008(updated to 2009)

Hi Puchu..

I purchased a Linux For You magazine today... They have given opensolaris 2008.11 Live CD with it... Howz this distribution?

Wait a minute... Therez one more distro in another CD.. Named Debian 5.0... Anyone used it?

Originally Posted by itsmemad

Hi Puchu..

I purchased a Linux For You magazine today... They have given opensolaris 2008.11 Live CD with it... Howz this distribution?

I did not try solaris 11, I tried Solaris 10, but it failed to recognize my SATA drives as it needed the RAID driver for my motherboard, so had to dump it. You reminded me of the same, I was running out of things to download, now I am going to download latest Solaris and test it, will tell you soon(one or two days).

Thanks... I can wait...

Originally Posted by itsmemad

Thanks... I can wait...

I believe that you are not trying to test my knowledge, are you ?

Absolutely not! :no:

I was just curious about the distro...