What OS do you use?

laugh at me, but I am discovering GEOS for the commodore 64. hope to make something useful of it...:computer:
along with debian linux on the main iron and suse linux enterprise on the laptop (factory installed), lubuntu on the old iron , windows xp on the old mule which deals with commodore 64 floppies, MSX-DOS 1.0 and CP/M for the svi-738 and DOS 2.0 on the dos machine, Olivetti Prodest. ah, ok, there is android on both phone and TV. this is pretty much the list of OSes i run here. Once i had a QNX 4 machine too...
also tried TOS and GEM.
p.s. on virtualbox i have: win XP, damn small linux, freeDOS,syllable, Plan 9 from Bell labs, Haiku, Belenix, Milax, CP/M 86, slackware 2, MS-DOS 5 and Solaris.


ok, im an OS fetishist.

 

Dat's some oldskool shit there, I've always wanted to get one of those old commodore 64s or something just to fuck around with, I think I could actually learn a fair bit about computers from those old things can you believe that?

Maybe I should get an emulator and fuck around with it but I don't know any of the commands for that shit...I do remember the very first computer my family had ran some ancient OS either CP/M or some type of DOS (not MS-DOS) no GUI. It used the 5 1/4" floppies. I remember the old spreadsheet program and the dot matrix printer...we thought it was hot shit. The next PC we had was win 95.

 

you guys should enjoy this site;

http://toastytech.com/index.html

 

C64s sell on ebay for about €30, 1571 drives (best 4 GEOS) go around 40, a 1351 mouse will be round 20. copying geos disks will take the maverick software and a X*1541 cable which can be assembled at home... i really wanted to try what i couldn't afford as a kid i added a MPS1230 printer (wrecked, took some tinkering) just for the hell of it. hot stuff. really. hard to think that back in the 80s one could do txt processing with fonts and all the gimmicks without a mac. cassette units are the cheap shit... but you can play tap files from a pc through a cassette adapter from a laptop. lots of fun.

 

Just got a new Acer C720 as a replacement for my old Acer (extended warranty replacement). The old one was not high tech but it did it's job well. This one is shit on every level so far. The downgrade is obvious. I might even take it back and ask for my money back so I can put it towards something made by a company that cares more about the product than the box that it's in. I have nothing but great things to say about the one I had but this replacement is garbage.

 

I just got a new ASUS mobo with a sapphire Radeon R9 270x graphics card and an AMD fx 9590 8 core CPU that I'm gonna try and push to 5ghz. I'm at just past 4.8ghz and it runs about 70-71°C under 100% load. GPU staying around 63° when mining at full intensity:2thumbsup:

I fried my nvidia 570 and mobo when I tried to change the heat sink cooler. It was supposed to fit the card but I had to hack off part of the heat sink to make it fit and all seemed well everything lined up but I had to use so much force to get one of the screws to come thru the other side of the board enough to get the nut on it that it must have cracked something on the board

 

one my first computers was a Texas Instruments TI-99/4A..
defender like game was about all I used it for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uCSQd0eJKQQ"]Parsec TI 99 4/A - YouTube

 

aahh! first 16 bit micro ever. too bad TI was kicked out of the market along with the rest of the competitors by tramiel's aggressive marketing strategies. once i found a boxed one for sale for less than 30 € but i didn't buy it because the very peculiar external PSU was missing (id happily bash in the wall the heads of ppl who let their memorabilia to spoil.idiots). im still regretting that. apart from some cool things, it was a very unucky micro.

 

oh, yes , Kubuntu. i used it with pleasure and pride until the day when a routine upgrade messed the system up to the point that i installed debian in a fit of rage.

 

I use freebsd openbsd debian and slackware windows 7 in virtualbox

 

how's freebsd all about? i never used it. doesn't it suffer from lack of updated software?

Inviato dal mio GT-I9001 con Tapatalk 2

 

Windows XP! :2thumbsup:
I'm so lazy...

 

i run the BSD OSes as firewall and server it is up to date also you need to patch and update your system then it is ok

 

You've been lazy long enough.

 

Windows 8
Windows phone 8
iOS 7
A few different Linux distros

 

XP and not planning on buying a new OS on the short term.

 

You can always torrent one...I have a good version that works, and you can choose to install Windows 8.1, Windows 8.1 Professional, or Windows 8.1 Enterprise.
I'm running the Windows 8.1 pro right now.

Windows 8 requires a 1GHz processor, at least 1 gigabyte of RAM, and 16gigs of hard drive space.

A clean OS install makes things so much faster especially if the PC was bought off the shelf...all that bloat ware and extra crap slows things down and causes conflicts sometimes with the OS. PM me if you need help installing a new OS

 

Says the guy who can only operate a MAC.
LOL










jk

 

Says the guy who doesn't know how to spell Mac.