Operating System Poll

nazlfrag · Sun Feb 27, 2005 10:27 pm

Thanx mind for tha site! I'll let all youse know how it goes.. ANYTHING is better than NT4!!!

user · Tue Apr 05, 2005 11:02 pm

I use a combination of os s right now.

win2k as a workstation, I run putty to give me a shell on a local freebsd computer, and I run screen inside that shell so I can maintain sessions on several other remote linux and freebsd machines (screen is awesome btw if you've not tried it). I run different services from a bsd computer on the lan here. This has been working really well.

~user

"Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up. " G. K. Chesterton

anime · Fri Apr 15, 2005 12:59 pm

Running Gentoo Linux on the Main computer and the laptop. All the hardware works Smile

can't beat the speed of a nice linux kernel.

Taz · Sat Apr 16, 2005 5:22 am

Windows XP Wink

auttie · Thu Jun 02, 2005 10:28 am

debian on my desktop, freebsd 5.3 on my server, and ubuntu for my laptops.. if anyone is interested in the security of a *nix operating system but is a bit scared of learning a new operating system I highly recomend ubuntu http://www.ubuntulinux.org

loki · guinea pig

ah good to see i'm not the only gentoo user here... gentoo in a bit of a mission to get your head around, i've been playing with it for almost 18 months now and i've got it pretty well sussed now. i like gentoo cos i can customise the compiler options, and if i want a program, it's just 'emerge programname' and easy to update too (but lots of traps for young players in that process, that's been my biggest stumbling block). I'm also running a pax-enabled kernel, which has stack smashing protection and memory randomisation and non-executable memory (does mean i can't run java tho, cos it executes data memory). I would be running grsecurity as well but it's hard to configure it for a desktop machine. one of these days i'll get the posix acl's running, imho, probably easier to set up than grsec. grsec is good for servers. I also run a webserver (apache2), ftp server (proftpd), silc server, and use gnome for my desktop (i hates the kde HATESES).

Noven · Mon Sep 12, 2005 1:26 pm

I run gentoo on my laptop {main box} - in addition to the valid reasons loki pointed out the portage system includes some very handy chemical programs {of course these will also run on any linux box}. It supports all the hardware in my laptop, and every other laptop I've installed it on for that matter {with the exception of some old inbuilt winmodems}. FreeBSD runs all my servers and has never let me down. I have win98 happening inside VMWare for one reason only - Civ2.
No matter what OS you run it won't be secure or safe by default. You need to pay attention and know what you're doing {yes my mail scanners have picked up a *nix virus and lame cracking attempts make my firewall logs enjoyable light reading}. Of course seeing as neither I nor anyone I know would consider doing anything illegal data encryption is merely for research purposes.