Alternative Operating Systems

[hhw]

How many people here run operating systems other than Windows? If not as your primary desktop, do you run anything else as a router, server, development machine, etc...?

[Siretsap]

I run windows xp on some pc's at home and xp 64 on some others. As well as knoppix.

[HeatherRose]

Rou....ter ?

:p

[Mustangcsa]

I run slackware linux - current. Very good operating system. Much better than windows in everyway, in my opinion atleast.

[sneaky_boa]

I use redhat linux in at all my lab stations. It's the only OS where good data analysis programs are available (not commercially, but from other lab groups). I find that many profs (at least in health science data collection) prefer using Linux. I thought it was hard to get used to at first (XP on my laptop and desktop), but now I prefer it...simpler, fewer bug, less complicated to accomplish various tasks.

[Asian Jon]

When I build another computer this summer I'm gonna use it as a web server for a website I'm gonna make. I'll probabaly be using Redhat Linux on it.