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Posted By: Marcus Rowland Operating System and Browser? - 03/04/07 09:16 AM
Out of curiosity, what operating systems and browsers are people using? No particular reason for asking, except I'm wondering how widespread the latest technology really is. Pick all that apply to you.
Posted By: Ank. K. S. Re: Operating System and Browser? - 03/04/07 09:55 AM
For operating system, I chose XP and something else. Because depending on where I am, I sometimes use Xubuntu, a flavor of UNIX, sort of..

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Posted By: Marcus Rowland Re: Operating System and Browser? - 03/04/07 10:24 AM
Damn - I knew I'd forgotten something. Should have included Linux as one of the operating system options!
Posted By: Karen Re: Operating System and Browser? - 03/04/07 01:07 PM
I forgot to click Something Else for the OS's. I'm a Tri-OS person.. Mac, Windows (XP), and Linux (RedHat 9).
Posted By: LaraMoon Re: Operating System and Browser? - 03/04/07 01:38 PM
I'm a Mac girl. Not many of us, are there? wink

OS X + Safari & Camino (Firefox variant) on my big iMac beast.

I also own a laptop that's a PC (so I can work from home) where I use XP + Firefox. If I'd known they were going to come up with dual boot MacBooks, I would never have bought this piece of .... this laptop really sucks, but then, it's not solely because it runs on Windows.
Posted By: Marcus Rowland Re: Operating System and Browser? - 03/04/07 02:13 PM
And I'm Mac (laptop running Safari, Firefox, and Opera) and XP (two desktop machines running Firefox and Opera), which was one of the things that prompted me to ask this - I'm thinking about where I'm going to go in the long term with my PCs and on the whole want to steer clear of Vista for at least the next couple of releases. I don't expect to need to upgrade for a good while, at least I hope not, but these things often come as a bit of a surprise - the last PC purchase was prompted by a Windows 98 machine that went bad and couldn't be fixed.
Posted By: Shadow Re: Operating System and Browser? - 03/04/07 09:55 PM
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I'm a Mac girl. Not many of us, are there? [Wink]
Mac girls unite! How much credit do I REALLY get, though? It's a sheer necessity for work and school. This things costs more money than my fellowship LOL, so I doubt I would have made the jump if my career didn't demand it. But I do love it. I probably wipe my Windows laptop clean every six months because it either falls apart, or I get a virus...I haven't had a single problem with this love of my life.

JD
Posted By: DSDragon Re: Operating System and Browser? - 03/08/07 02:34 PM
I'm Windows XP and either IE 6, IE 7, or Netscape. I've been known to use Firefox, but not very often.
Posted By: Vanda Detroit Re: Operating System and Browser? - 03/09/07 06:59 AM
Operating System: I use Windows XP and Linux (Opensuse)
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Should have included Linux as one of the operating system options!
yes, would be interesting
Posted By: RL Re: Operating System and Browser? - 03/18/07 09:24 PM
I'm a Mac guy, plus I use Windows of different varieties. I run two Windows 2003 servers, my own Exchange server, have several Macs and have a few other flavors of OS'es lying around somewhere like Vista (totally useless). I tinker and love playing around with operating systems rather than playing games (yeah I know it's a sickness).

I never could get into Linux. I've run it a few times (Red Hat and SuSE, and Slackware back in ancient times) but didn't care for it much. The most I tinker with Linux is when I'm trying to hack my TiVos.

As for web browsers, I use mostly Firefox on both Windows and Macs, though I do use Safari and OmniWeb on occasions on the Mac and IE on the PC when I absolutely have to.
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