What OS do you work with?

[singularity2006]

I use Win2K.

[MattClary]

I use XP Pro.

[leigh]

I use Windows XP Pro on one machine and Windows 2000 Pro on the other (hopefully be upgrading to XP Pro on this one soon too though).

[JasonA]

XP Pro here

[lots]

for most of my work (computer tech) and school im on Linux.. tho i put windows.. because when i work on 3D .. thats where i do it :P and thats what my desktop usually runs

XP Pro

[arquebus]

Does anyone here work with BeOS? Ive heard its very fast.

[SOPLAND]

BeOS is dead. Be sold out to Palm and Palm assimilated it.

Linux at work and home.

[baoling]

win2k (XP makes my pc runs slower):bounce:

[kex]

not to be supper coolio or any thing but BeOS is in mac OSX :)

BTW BeOS is still very much alive.

[ya3]

not to be supper coolio or any thing but BeOS is in mac OSX :)

BTW BeOS is still very much alive.
i always though osx ran on a BSD subsystem...

[Gein]

There is no BeOS in MacOS X. Apple considered it for some time, but ended up buying Steve Jobs' NeXT instead of Be. Too bad.

BeOS was/is great. It feels incredably fast (like something I never used before or after), and just right. Everything about the system felt like it was the right thing to do. Install a driver was just copy 2 or 3 files to a folder, and voilá!, the hardware was working without reboots or delays (some exceptions existed, of course, like graphic cards).

Anyways, Be went down and everything was sold to Palm.

Not all is lost though. There is a company trying to bring it back: Yellowtab (http://www.yellowtab.com) with a modified Dano (an unreleased version of BeOS), and several open source efforts, most importantly Haiku (http://haiku-os.org/learn.php), witch is rewriting BeOS from 0.

Until that is done, I'm using Windows XP. http://cgtalk.com/images/smilies/sad.gif

Gein

[Dr. Ira Kane]

w2k + sp4, blabla (the message was too short)

[Gibbo69]

Win XP Pro on 3 artist machines and Win 2003 Server on main Box.

[XenaTrek]

XP Pro on both Laptop and Desktop.
XenaTrek

[Andrew W]

Linux (Fedora), Win2000, WinXP, Mac OS X, and still occasionally IRIX when I'm feeling nostalgic. I'm a bit of a brazen strumpet when it comes to operating systems. Personally I like the *nix based ones, but that's just me.

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[ristopuukko]

xppro in workstation and renderboxes

[ThunderStorm]

I use Windows XP Pro and 2003 Server in my machine. The server is considerably faster than XP, if correctly configured, of course. My choice to everyday workstation...

[][ndy]

WinXP Pro w/ SP 2 on Notebook

[Byla]

60 % Windows XP Pro
30 % OS X
10 % RH8 Linux

[DARK0DEVIL]

I use Linux (slackware10) version of maya works fine

[agreenster]

BeOS was/is great. It feels incredably fast (like something I never used before or after), and just right. Everything about the system felt like it was the right thing to do. Install a driver was just copy 2 or 3 files to a folder, and voilá!, the hardware was working without reboots or delays

Hmmm....sounds JUST like an OS I use....:D

Want a whole program? (or..."application") Just copy and paste it.

OSX is unreal. Especially Panther. Fast, stable, intuitive, accessible. Everything Windows and Linux wishes they could be. And with Tiger right around the corner...

:p

[arquebus]

Are their any other viable OS alternatives besides win, mac, *nix?

[maddness]

don't get me wrong, you can accomplish just as much on a unix based or mac, but for compatability and native comfort, i prefer windows for my machines...

[Tarrbot]

Gein states:BeOS was/is great. It feels incredably fast (like something I never used before or after), and just right. Everything about the system felt like it was the right thing to do. Install a driver was just copy 2 or 3 files to a folder, and voilá!, the hardware was working without reboots or delays
I have quite a few BeOS stories. I'll suffice with 2 short ones, though.

1) During Comdex 1999, I saw them demo'ing BeOS. I had been using BeOS exclusively for quite some time and already knew what it could do. Despite this, the demo is to this day one of the best demos I've ever seen anyone do. They were beating the living hell out of the machine, turning off processors, unplugging the power, throwing video/audio streams at it and it still just kept ticking.

I knew some of the Be folks and really berated them when they announced their support for BeIA which ultimately killed off BeOS.

2) Intel flew me up to look at the P4 before it was released. A lot of engineers and marketroid types were in there and they were going ga-ga over how great the P4 was streaming video and not dropping frames or audio on 3 simultaneous videos.

I almost fell over laughing. One of the engineers asked what was funny. I flatly told them that I was able to do 20+ video streams without frames dropping or audio stuttering on my P3... with BeOS. They had never heard of it... which I find funny since Intel pumped cash into Be, Inc early on.

I've pondered installing BeOS again just to toy with it. Great OS. I'll have to build the hard-to-find pieces and brew it up with a good networking stack, though.

Anyway...

I use primarily Win2K (Pro and AS) and IRIX at home and a little bit of HP-UX at work.

[Valkyrien]

XP Pro!

(heavily tweaked out of course;))

[TheLostVertex]

WinXP.

[/rant]To be prefectly honest, Linux is terrible for any graphics or audio work(and i like te feel of linux better than everything else, it is just useless). I am willing to cave and say that Mac OSX is WAY better than linux for productive use, and that comes from a mac hater such as my self. Over all windows has the best support for its applications and compatibility. Too bad windows isnt cool, but atleast it works.[/rant off]

-Steven

[lots]

I find more often than not windows boxes that have so much trouble and crashing were just configured poorly. Software not considered carefully, spyware not taken care of, viruses not watched for.. etc. For me Windows has always been pretty stable and useable. Granted there are features i like alot more on Linux based OS's like Gentoo, but linux does lack some things when it comes to 3D support. Drivers for one are not as up to par as they are on Windows which is the main set back i find with sound.. tho my 3D works pretty well. I'm not trying to put down linux at all, heck i use it exclusivly at work, and for school. I dont use it on my desktop (even tho its dual booted) because i have crappy sound support, and windows versions of Lightwave and XSI.. so i end up in XP alot, dont really like to reboot alot :) Tho i dont agree with linux being unable to be productive. I would say you can do some pretty productive things in Linux. Programming being a good example.. Using linux as servers, or render nodes.. even day to day use for email and web surfing (i find) and text documents (Tex anyone? thats a pretty powerful document creation suite..or open office? :P).. is just fine in linux (just as responcive as XP from my experiences from the last few years of using it constantly at work :P) So its not entirely true that its not productive, just maybe not as handy when it comes to 3D apps and sound editing.. gaming too ;)

I think linux is fun for the geeky, and the people who like to fiddle ..

[MukMan]

Suse 9.0 64-bit

I heart linux, windows is only compatable with things because manufacturers make the stuff for windows.

I've seen articles where companies and government systems are migrating to linux now becuase Micorsoft is charging them an arm and a leg becuase they can.

besides--

xsi, maya, and probably most others have linux versions.
nVidia plays nice with us and makes drivers for their cards.
linux is getting easy enough to use that my grandma could probably use it.
thanks to things like crossover office and wine and such, plenty of people sit and run linux and still use their Micorsoft products, like office and whatnot, and pretty much any game too.

pay 90$ or so for security risk windows? or pay nothing for stable linux (+like 15$ if you buy cedega and whatnot)

[creative destructions]

Dos 6.2 ....

[Signal2Noise]

I dual boot 3.1 and 95. I'm still not sure about this new fangled Windows 95 so I use mostly 3.1 still. Unless I have to use a 5.25 floppy app then it's DOS all the way baby!

[Valkyrien]

In other news, local icon Signal To Noise was busted today for posessing enough crack to kill an elephant....

:D

[kex]

very sorry for my lame post, i didnt have much sleep and got bsd and beos confused , im sure now its bsd thats the base of osx so shoot me please :) :wip:

[TheLostVertex]

pay 90$ or so for security risk windows? or pay nothing for stable linux (+like 15$ if you buy cedega and whatnot)

Linux isnt as secure as you think it is, and it is infact very easy to screw up(who needs a virus for linux!) But the fact is, no one wants to make a virus for linux, everyone hates MS stuff, linux is the the younger brother with a halo over his head, no one would harm him ;-) So just remember not to think so highly of linux because people arent throwing stones at it.


And yes, we've tried to address Signal to Noise's drug problem, but he is to far gone in his haze of madness. Dont cry for him, he is already gone... :D

[mummey]

Its always nice to see fellow BeOS users out there. It was a great example of what potentially an OS could do. I just wish I hadn't been too young to make best use of it.

[Tocpe]

Mac OS 10.3.5 at work

Win XP Home at home

[kex]

i would love to try the newsest version of skyos\

http://www.skyos.org/

[Tocpe]

What's the deal with this SkyOS? I've never seen it before...musta been livin' in a cave :shrug: Anybody out there ever used it?

[lots]

Not I.. however the alpha maps within the GUI are nice. I should really look into trying out X.org.. it supports alpha maps too heh.

Tho the kernel looks like its still in somewhat of an early stage for SkyOS. It only supports USB1.1 (according to the site's about section) and doesnt look like it has too many programs yet. But that could all change :) plus it looks rather neat to toy with.. might have to try it. once i find a "hardware compatability list"

[elvis]

50/50 Linux on PC and MacOSX on Apple at this stage.

Living Windows-free is very sweet. :)

[Andrew W]

WinXP.

[/rant]To be prefectly honest, Linux is terrible for any graphics or audio work(and i like te feel of linux better than everything else, it is just useless). I am willing to cave and say that Mac OSX is WAY better than linux for productive use, and that comes from a mac hater such as my self. Over all windows has the best support for its applications and compatibility. Too bad windows isnt cool, but atleast it works.[/rant off]

-Steven
I will concede that Linux audio drivers leave a lot to be desired, but we've been using Linux in production for some time (as is every other major studio Pixar aside that I know of) and it has shown itself very capable as a production operating system. All the software we require is available for Linux and it has proved very stable under some very punishing conditions. The Nvidia drivers get better all the time, and I don't really see what else you'd need a pure CG machine to be capable of; it runs CG apps very well, without crashing and with a comparitively small memory footprint. And it's cheap, let's not forget that.

Whilst I think Linux is far from perfect I do believe it is the best affordable option for robust scalable production available, and its adoption by the majority of the visual effects industry would tend to bear this out.

Best,

Andrew

[lots]

its really too bad some of my hardware isnt too friendly with linux (mainly the audio driver) otherwise i'd use it more.. But i like listening to music while i work on my CG stuff .. and it sounds best in windows :/

one of these days i'll buy an audio card that plays nice in linux tho ;)

[pming]

Windows 2k sp4 for me...but that's only for another day or two. I'm going to give that "Windows XP Pro 64-bit" a go. Now that I have a system for it. :D I'm just waiting on my vid card and 2GB RAM to come in. Probably a week or so.

But right now...Win2k. Never jumped into XP. I also use RedHat 9.0...and will 'upgrade' my linux side to one of the new 64-bit versions when I'm up and running. :)

[MukMan]

I just have the standard audio that's onboard with my k8t something motherboard (one of them amd 64 ones) and sound works just find with me. Especially if all I'm doing is listening to mp3's or whatever while modelling.

[arquebus]

Ive noticed many here use win 2000 rather than win 2003, why is that?

[schmu_20mol]

b/c 2003 is a server edition

[immerzeelpictures]

Windows XP Pro (wrkstns) & home (laptop)
FreeBSD on new server, RH linux on old one.
IRIX on O2 at home, if I can reinstall from a disk crash..
Palm OS on my palmtop.

[mrgrundy]

Windows XP Pro : Workstation

Mac OSX : Laptop

[mrgoodbyte]

Redhat Linux 9 & MacOS X

[Rafe]

All systems except Windows are based on Unix, even MacOS.
But difference between RadHat Linux or FreeBSD etc.. and anything from Apple is that "Linux" systems fall like Windows and MacOs almost never falls.

I'm using MacOS on apple, win XP on PC.

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