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Smokin said:mmm-five said:
I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Mac user but have to use PCs sometimes at work (I'm bilingual, lol) and I must say that after service pack 1 for Vista, it was MUCH better.
Vista was always good. All you needed is some real kickass h/w and to disable the Aero crap. I must say that the Suspend/Resume feature was not working too well however. It's strange because it was working so well with XP.
Shipkiller
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I have been a Linux user since RH4.2
I dropped it on my home server for Win2003 because FC10 is really weird...
My desktop is Vista, my laptops are XP.
I dropped it on my home server for Win2003 because FC10 is really weird...
My desktop is Vista, my laptops are XP.
Unix user since SunOS3.5 but currently run FreeBSD (OSX 10.5.6) for my primary desktop at home with XP running as a VM under Parallels. Laptop is dual boot RHEL 5.2 WS and windoze XP. I also have another XP host at home to run my weather station.
Work desktop is XP with Cygwin providing a linux shell on a second screen along with 4 other RHEL 5.2 servers for network management software on a wall of screens above my desk.
Work desktop is XP with Cygwin providing a linux shell on a second screen along with 4 other RHEL 5.2 servers for network management software on a wall of screens above my desk.
Nope - the last version of Solaris I used was 8 and then I discovered the joys of heading back to the more BSD oriented linux variants. I got tired of pretending that I loved Suns enough to put up with the tedium of adding in the GNU trees every time I got a new box so it would be tolerable when all I really wanted was to go back to BSD 
System 5 release 4 unix may be the POSIX standard but it is just too sterile for me. Sun makes nice hardware but its overpriced compared to what we can build these days for a fraction of the price. Is the Lynx box Sun hardware? How much $$$$ for disk space and RAM? That's the main reason I dumped my old Ultra 60 and moved over to a Mac.
System 5 release 4 unix may be the POSIX standard but it is just too sterile for me. Sun makes nice hardware but its overpriced compared to what we can build these days for a fraction of the price. Is the Lynx box Sun hardware? How much $$$$ for disk space and RAM? That's the main reason I dumped my old Ultra 60 and moved over to a Mac.
You can tell who works in IT!!
I use Leopard on my Macbook and iMac but both have bootcamp with XP (remote desktop works far better for work). Obviously for the purposes of this survey, that counts as Leopard. I use some dumped down version of XP networked at work.
Tell me about this Snow Leopard? Is it out? Has it passed me by?
I use Leopard on my Macbook and iMac but both have bootcamp with XP (remote desktop works far better for work). Obviously for the purposes of this survey, that counts as Leopard. I use some dumped down version of XP networked at work.
Tell me about this Snow Leopard? Is it out? Has it passed me by?
Snow leopard. It's not a major leap forward, but rather a tinkering under the hood to improve performance. It will have more specific coding for intel chip and gets rid of some of the legacy stuff for the PPC chip. Apple says it will be out in about a year, but friends of mine say more like in the next few months.
Snow Leopard
Snow Leopard