Which OSes you have ever used? - Page 7

imlost · February 13th, 2008

DOS 5.0
DOS 6.22
Windows 3.1
Windows 3.11
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows 98 SE
Windows NT
Windows ME
Windows 2000
Windows XP Home/Pro
Windows Server 2003
Windows Vista

Knoppix

GTX2GvO · February 14th, 2008

Oh boy. Ooohh boy.

Let's start with my Desktop evolution, sha'll we.

SEVERAL MACHINES
DOS 3.x > old Monochrome with monitor fixed with the PC and ONLY 5.4" Floppy's (no HD

)
DOS 5.0 > Monochrome machine With hard disk this time. (can't remember how much)
DOS 6.22 & Win 3.11 > Nice 486 with SVGA monitor. (still exists in mom's room)

Pentium1
Win 95 > Don't know which 95, cause I crashed it in like 20 minutes

DOS 6.22 & Win 3.11 > From the above 486 as a rescue attempt. (was forced to use boot disks though)
Win 95a > Better, but it was still a bootdisk that did the needed booting
Win 95b > Short period, fixed booting by repartitioning the HD (guess MBR) but the machine itself died shortly after.
(prime suspect.. Much more EDO RAM than it could handle)

Pentuim3 (current desktop)
Win 95b > Even a shorter period than above. (I moved the HD's etc. that survived from the P1 into this machine)
Win 98SE > Required patching, updating and several re-installations to properly work. (it Rocked back then.. ehm 2.5 years ago

)
Ubuntu 7.04 & win XP pro > Wanted to learn some linux, but I failed miserably at it. (I'm incompatible!!

)
Win XP Pro SP2 > Using right now. A tad Sluggish, but no major complaints.

Future
Vista (SP?) > I will probably start using Vista in 2011 or so. And on a New machine.
(Not my current P3 550MHz 320Mb RAM Desktop)

Non-Desktop OS's

Laptop (bought 1.5 years ago)
Win XP home SP2 > It's store bought. It's OEM. I'm not going to change it.
(It's a Celeron M 1.46 GHz 512Mb RAM Acer Aspire 3680 series)

VPC/VirtualBox (on Laptop)
Win 98 SE > To save important Data on my Desktop at that time. (VPC)
DSL(-N) > Tried both flavors of Damn Small Linux. Still have the VHD's (VPC&Vbox)
Ubuntu 7.04 > As a pre-test for my Desktop. It's good enough as long as it's used as a Live CD to play it's native games

(Vbox)
Win 3.11 & DOS ? > Just to have good old 3.11 close @ hand again (VPC)
OS/2 v2 > Found some Floppy's for them a few months ago. So I though. "Why not." (VPC)
OS/2 Warp 4 > More stable than v2, just got a bit OS/2 greedy @ that point.
Windows NT4 > Just to try it out.
Windows ME > Ditto

Think that's all of the OS's I went through I guess.
Maybe missed a few VPC/Vbox OS's that aren't worth mentioning. (some Linux LiveCD's come to mind)

KillerShots · February 15th, 2008

With me, it's simple:

DOS
Windows (all the same)
Linux (all the same)
FreeBSD
Solaris 10
Embedded OS (minix)

Hard core Rikki · May 3rd, 2008

Quote:

MS OSes
DOS
win 3.11
win 95
win 98
win 98 SE
win ME
win 2000 (job at hospital)
win XP (Home+Pro flavours)
Tried Vista, will never allow it on or near my machine or networks. My trip with MS ends here. Long live GNU !!

GNU/Linux OSes
Knoppix (going live was awesome, at the time)
Linspire
Freespire
Xandros OCE
Ubuntu
Kubuntu
Xubuntu
GNUsense
PClinuxOS
Sam Linux
OpenSUSE
Fedora
Mepis
Mandriva
Damn Small Linux
Puppy Linux
Zenwalk Linux
Linux XP (in VM)
...and various specialized live distros like Trinity Rescue Kit not worth listing as "OSes"...

Quote:

Vector Linux (just tried)
Mint Linux (pff, pretty, easier than regular Ubuntu, not a lot more than it)
Ubuntu Studio (pretty sleek, very nice)
For some reason, was possessed into seeing what was there in Neowin's Shift Linux, pff, now I want my 4 hours back...

Add WebStudio here (livecd for webmasters, still WIP actually ;p)
and a surprising livedistro that managed to boot fully under 25 seconds (forgot its name)

strike105x · May 3rd, 2008

DOS (dont remember the version)
Norton Comander (well i used it so much it was like an OS to me)
Windows 3.1
Windows 3.11
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows 98 SE
Windows NT
Windows ME
Windows 2000 Profesional
Windows XP Home/Pro/X64
Windows Server 2003
Windows Vista Ultimate X86/X64
Fedora 8
Ubuntu 7.10
Kubuntu 6.06 till 7.10

Curent OS windows xp pro SP2 X86

Anatasia · May 14th, 2008

DOS 6.22 (hate it to the core and therefore hate Linux Terminal to the core,always hang around with NC)
Windows 3.11
Windows 95
Windows 98SE
Windows ME
Windows XP+Mandrake 9 (maybe call Mandriva right now)+Slashware
Windows Vista+Fedora Core 7+Ubuntu 8

snickothemule · May 15th, 2008

Windows 95
Windows Xp
Apple OSX and the one before it

The Apples were for school. Used to have fun crashing it every time I ran anything (the guy who ran the system network was inept)

NamesSolidSnake · May 15th, 2008

Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows 200
Windows XP

ShadowPlayer · May 15th, 2008

Windows 98
Windows 2000
Windows XP

Noja87 · May 15th, 2008

Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows 2000, Windows Me, Windows XP, Windows Vista, Ubuntu.

Ferenn · May 15th, 2008

I went from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 and from that directly to a 64-bit version of Vista Ultimate

Quite the jump, if I might say.

Omegainf · May 15th, 2008

DOS 6.22
Windows 3.1
Windows 95
Slackware Linux
Windows 98
Windows ME (yeah, I know...)
Red Hat Linux
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Ubuntu Linux

Devil Master · May 15th, 2008

Ever used:

DOS 6.22
OS 3.5
OSX (on a 1998 iMac, bleh)
Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
Windows 3.1
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows ME
Windows 2000
Windows XP
Windows Vista
Workbench 1.2
Workbench 1.3
Workbench 2.0
Workbench 3.1

Currently owning:

OS 3.5
Ubuntu Feisty Fawn
Windows 3.1
Windows 98
Windows XP
Workbench 1.2
Workbench 1.3
Workbench 2.0

Xelbair · May 15th, 2008

attepmt to instal windows 1(as VM - failed one)
attempt to instal windows 2(as VM - failed one)
Windows 3.11
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows ME
Windows 2000(at my friend's house)
Windows XP
Windows Vista(at school - i hate it - especialy new Office...)

Dos

FreeBSD(not much - just to look how it works at 800mhz pc and to setup apache)
OpenBSD(not much - just to look how it works at 800mhz pc and setup apache)
Ubuntu(for my Windows data rescue from viruses)(as live and instaled)
Attepmt to instal Gentoo(unsuccesful ofc)
Kbuntu
MasOS(i hate it - worst os ever, and i have to use it at school...)
and some more - cant remember them all - me and my friend were trying to choose best os for small lan server(800mhz pc 512mb ram) - it were supposed to have WAMP/LAMP on it(Windows Apache Mysql Php/Linux Apache Mysql Php)(ofc it depended on OS).

64fanatic · May 18th, 2008

MS:

Windows 3.11 (First Computer)
Windows 95
Windows 98
Windows XP Home Edition
Windows Vista Home Premium x64 (Current)

Linux:

Fedora Core 8
Ubuntu 8 (Current, Dual Boot)

Mac:

No idea, some **** from school, otherwise that it all the experience had with it..and we only used it to play Oregon Trail :P

Other OS's That I don't own or use on my own computers:

Windows ME (my friend's computer, had an early Celeron and dial up, dear god I can't imagine a worse combo)
Windows NT :3

Mako Eyes · May 18th, 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by 64fanatic

Ubuntu 8 (Current, Dual Boot)

Hardy is lovely, isn't it?

Mynemisbat-Zul · May 18th, 2008

OSes I ever used.Then,I think it was:
Windows 98,2000 and XP.
I never used other Operating System.

jyaan · June 3rd, 2008

got my first computer when i was 8. guess it was 286 & had a 4 color display.

dos 6.0 & other versions. one of them had quikmenu, which was a crumby dos gui shell.
msdos
win 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, nt, me, 2k, xp
solaris
freebsd
freedos
linux
apple IIe
osx 10

i like (gentoo) linux the best out of all the operating systems i've tried (ubuntu and arch are nice as well). id say it has more to offer than any other linux distro, but is probably more suited to the "programmer" type than the average user.

teh Ura · July 25th, 2008

WINDOWS:
windows 95
windows 98
windows xp pro currectly using
windows vista ultimate
windows vista ultimate 64bit

Linux:
Linspire

mac:
Mac OS X currectly using

gamefreak94 · July 25th, 2008

I brought my first PC in 1997, it was a P2 Celeron (266 MHz) with 64 MB RAM and 4 GB HDD, the OS'es used from then on till now are in this order:

Windows 95
Windows 97 (basically like an SP2 of 95)
Windows 98
Windows 2000
Windows 98 SE (wasn't happy with Windows 2000)
Windows XP XP2, I only switched to XP once SP2 was released. Its been my longest use of one OS

As far as Linux is concerned:

Redhat Linux
Linux Mandrake
Puppy Linux
Linux Defender
Caldera Open Linux
WinLinux 2000
Ubuntu 7.04
Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron)

If you talk about Apple, then you might be surprised to know that I have never even seen an Apple product in my life (apart from iPods that is). They're that uncommon here.

February 14th, 2008	#122 (permalink)
GTX2GvO The (Web)Space Pirate Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Among the (Web)Space Pirates Posts: 5	Oh boy. Ooohh boy. Let's start with my Desktop evolution, sha'll we. SEVERAL MACHINES DOS 3.x > old Monochrome with monitor fixed with the PC and ONLY 5.4" Floppy's (no HD) DOS 5.0 > Monochrome machine With hard disk this time. (can't remember how much) DOS 6.22 & Win 3.11 > Nice 486 with SVGA monitor. (still exists in mom's room) Pentium1 Win 95 > Don't know which 95, cause I crashed it in like 20 minutes DOS 6.22 & Win 3.11 > From the above 486 as a rescue attempt. (was forced to use boot disks though) Win 95a > Better, but it was still a bootdisk that did the needed booting Win 95b > Short period, fixed booting by repartitioning the HD (guess MBR) but the machine itself died shortly after. (prime suspect.. Much more EDO RAM than it could handle) Pentuim3 (current desktop) Win 95b > Even a shorter period than above. (I moved the HD's etc. that survived from the P1 into this machine) Win 98SE > Required patching, updating and several re-installations to properly work. (it Rocked back then.. ehm 2.5 years ago) Ubuntu 7.04 & win XP pro > Wanted to learn some linux, but I failed miserably at it. (I'm incompatible!! ) Win XP Pro SP2 > Using right now. A tad Sluggish, but no major complaints. Future Vista (SP?) > I will probably start using Vista in 2011 or so. And on a New machine. (Not my current P3 550MHz 320Mb RAM Desktop) Non-Desktop OS's Laptop (bought 1.5 years ago) Win XP home SP2 > It's store bought. It's OEM. I'm not going to change it. (It's a Celeron M 1.46 GHz 512Mb RAM Acer Aspire 3680 series) VPC/VirtualBox (on Laptop) Win 98 SE > To save important Data on my Desktop at that time. (VPC) DSL(-N) > Tried both flavors of Damn Small Linux. Still have the VHD's (VPC&Vbox) Ubuntu 7.04 > As a pre-test for my Desktop. It's good enough as long as it's used as a Live CD to play it's native games (Vbox) Win 3.11 & DOS ? > Just to have good old 3.11 close @ hand again (VPC) OS/2 v2 > Found some Floppy's for them a few months ago. So I though. "Why not." (VPC) OS/2 Warp 4 > More stable than v2, just got a bit OS/2 greedy @ that point. Windows NT4 > Just to try it out. Windows ME > Ditto Think that's all of the OS's I went through I guess. Maybe missed a few VPC/Vbox OS's that aren't worth mentioning. (some Linux LiveCD's come to mind) __________________ Greetings from GTX2GvO.

February 15th, 2008	#123 (permalink)
KillerShots War Games coder Join Date: Apr 2001 Location: Florida Posts: 1,917	With me, it's simple: DOS Windows (all the same) Linux (all the same) FreeBSD Solaris 10 Embedded OS (minix) __________________ Primary CPU: Athlon 64 X2 4400+ Mobo: Biostar N4SLI-A9 RAM: 2G Crucial (DDR400) Video: eVGA GeForce 7900 GTX (512M) Audio: HDA X-Mystique HD(s): Maxtor 300G SATA2, Samsung 400G SATA2 OS(s): WinXP x64 Pro, Vista x32 Ultimate, Gentoo x64 Monitor(s): Primary - 19" Flat Panel (1280x1024) Secondary - 19" Flat Panel (1280x1024) Tertiary - Zenith 42" Plasma TV (1024x768 res) Many other machines... sig too short

May 3rd, 2008	#125 (permalink)
strike105x Hit Hard, Hit Fast Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: Hunting NTSC here there where ever PAL is Posts: 338	DOS (dont remember the version) Norton Comander (well i used it so much it was like an OS to me) Windows 3.1 Windows 3.11 Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows 98 SE Windows NT Windows ME Windows 2000 Profesional Windows XP Home/Pro/X64 Windows Server 2003 Windows Vista Ultimate X86/X64 Fedora 8 Ubuntu 7.10 Kubuntu 6.06 till 7.10 Curent OS windows xp pro SP2 X86 __________________ Specs: AMD Athlon X2 5000+ (2.7 GHz),2 X 1024 DDR2 Xms2 6400 Corsair, 2 X 512 DDR2 Kingmax Mars 6400 (both corsair & kingmax Dual Chanel),ASUS EAX1550 256DDR2 OS Vista 64 bit

May 14th, 2008	#126 (permalink)
Anatasia Registered User Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Vietnam Posts: 307	DOS 6.22 (hate it to the core and therefore hate Linux Terminal to the core,always hang around with NC) Windows 3.11 Windows 95 Windows 98SE Windows ME Windows XP+Mandrake 9 (maybe call Mandriva right now)+Slashware Windows Vista+Fedora Core 7+Ubuntu 8 __________________ Yoroshiku onegaiitashimasu

May 15th, 2008	#127 (permalink)
snickothemule Registered Mule Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Coffs Harbour, Australia Posts: 467	Windows 95 Windows Xp Apple OSX and the one before it The Apples were for school. Used to have fun crashing it every time I ran anything (the guy who ran the system network was inept) __________________ We'll settle this the old navy way. First guy to die, loses! - President Benson

February 13th, 2008	#121 (permalink)
imlost Cactuar is made of win Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: ??? Posts: 822	DOS 5.0 DOS 6.22 Windows 3.1 Windows 3.11 Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows 98 SE Windows NT Windows ME Windows 2000 Windows XP Home/Pro Windows Server 2003 Windows Vista Knoppix

May 15th, 2008	#128 (permalink)
NamesSolidSnake nullDC Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: California Posts: 639	Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows 200 Windows XP __________________ PC/Laptop:Compaq Presario v5000 Notebook CPU: Mobile AMD Sempron 3000+ at 1.8 GHz with PowerNow! technology. Graphics: ATI Radeon Xpress Mobility 200 Series. RAM: 512 MB. HDD: 60 GB. OS: Windows XP Home Edition SP2.

May 15th, 2008	#129 (permalink)
ShadowPlayer Big DBZ fan Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Kastel Stafilic,Croatia Posts: 377	Windows 98 Windows 2000 Windows XP __________________ DBZ FOREVER

May 15th, 2008	#131 (permalink)
Ferenn Registered User Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Finland Posts: 9	I went from Windows 3.1 to Windows 95 and from that directly to a 64-bit version of Vista Ultimate Quite the jump, if I might say.

May 15th, 2008	#132 (permalink)
Omegainf Penadinho Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: Rio de Janeiro Posts: 2,557	DOS 6.22 Windows 3.1 Windows 95 Slackware Linux Windows 98 Windows ME (yeah, I know...) Red Hat Linux Windows 2000 Windows XP Ubuntu Linux __________________

May 15th, 2008	#133 (permalink)
Devil Master Registered User Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Somewhere Posts: 138	Ever used: DOS 6.22 OS 3.5 OSX (on a 1998 iMac, bleh) Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Windows 3.1 Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows ME Windows 2000 Windows XP Windows Vista Workbench 1.2 Workbench 1.3 Workbench 2.0 Workbench 3.1 Currently owning: OS 3.5 Ubuntu Feisty Fawn Windows 3.1 Windows 98 Windows XP Workbench 1.2 Workbench 1.3 Workbench 2.0

May 15th, 2008	#134 (permalink)
Xelbair Generic Guy Join Date: May 2008 Location: Poland Posts: 23	attepmt to instal windows 1(as VM - failed one) attempt to instal windows 2(as VM - failed one) Windows 3.11 Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows ME Windows 2000(at my friend's house) Windows XP Windows Vista(at school - i hate it - especialy new Office...) Dos FreeBSD(not much - just to look how it works at 800mhz pc and to setup apache) OpenBSD(not much - just to look how it works at 800mhz pc and setup apache) Ubuntu(for my Windows data rescue from viruses)(as live and instaled) Attepmt to instal Gentoo(unsuccesful ofc) Kbuntu MasOS(i hate it - worst os ever, and i have to use it at school...) and some more - cant remember them all - me and my friend were trying to choose best os for small lan server(800mhz pc 512mb ram) - it were supposed to have WAMP/LAMP on it(Windows Apache Mysql Php/Linux Apache Mysql Php)(ofc it depended on OS). __________________ No need for avatar. CPU:Core 2 Quad Q6600(2,4GHz); RAM: Kingston DDR3 2gb(slowest one); GFX: Radeon HD3870(DDR3 gigabyte vers); Motherboard: Asus P5E3 WS PRO Intel X38; PSU: Chieftec 650W-800W; SPU Creative X-fi fatal1ty with front panel, 750 HDD barracuda SATA II 32mb cache; G5 mouse G15 Keyboard

May 18th, 2008	#135 (permalink)
64fanatic resU deretsigeR Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Canada Posts: 32	MS: Windows 3.11 (First Computer) Windows 95 Windows 98 Windows XP Home Edition Windows Vista Home Premium x64 (Current) Linux: Fedora Core 8 Ubuntu 8 (Current, Dual Boot) Mac: No idea, some ** from school, otherwise that it all the experience had with it..and we only used it to play Oregon Trail :P Other OS's That I don't own or use on my own computers: Windows ME (my friend's computer, had an early Celeron and dial up, dear god I can't imagine a worse combo) Windows NT :3 __________________ Q6600 2.4 Ghz \| 4 GB DDR2-800 RAM \| 8800 GTS 512 MB Alpha Dog \| 500 GB SATA HDD \| Two 80 GB IDE HDD "Flying is simple. You just throw yourself at the ground and miss."**

May 18th, 2008	#137 (permalink)
Mynemisbat-Zul TheT2R Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Internet Matrix Portal Posts: 1,003	OSes I ever used.Then,I think it was: Windows 98,2000 and XP. I never used other Operating System. __________________ What we called a rabbit without a letter R? -Bunny

June 3rd, 2008	#138 (permalink)
jyaan Registered User Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: usa/detroit Posts: 4	got my first computer when i was 8. guess it was 286 & had a 4 color display. dos 6.0 & other versions. one of them had quikmenu, which was a crumby dos gui shell. msdos win 3.1, 3.11, 95, 98, nt, me, 2k, xp solaris freebsd freedos linux apple IIe osx 10 i like (gentoo) linux the best out of all the operating systems i've tried (ubuntu and arch are nice as well). id say it has more to offer than any other linux distro, but is probably more suited to the "programmer" type than the average user.

July 25th, 2008	#139 (permalink)
teh Ura luigi's fan Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Teh Utopia Posts: 23	WINDOWS: windows 95 windows 98 windows xp pro currectly using windows vista ultimate windows vista ultimate 64bit Linux: Linspire mac: Mac OS X currectly using

July 25th, 2008	#140 (permalink)
gamefreak94 Dirty Green Eyes Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Karachi, Pakistan Posts: 534	I brought my first PC in 1997, it was a P2 Celeron (266 MHz) with 64 MB RAM and 4 GB HDD, the OS'es used from then on till now are in this order: Windows 95 Windows 97 (basically like an SP2 of 95) Windows 98 Windows 2000 Windows 98 SE (wasn't happy with Windows 2000) Windows XP XP2, I only switched to XP once SP2 was released. Its been my longest use of one OS As far as Linux is concerned: Redhat Linux Linux Mandrake Puppy Linux Linux Defender Caldera Open Linux WinLinux 2000 Ubuntu 7.04 Ubuntu 8.04 (Hardy Heron) If you talk about Apple, then you might be surprised to know that I have never even seen an Apple product in my life (apart from iPods that is). They're that uncommon here.

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