Just an informal poll :)

[jediphx]

What OS do you run on your laptop and why

 

[geldor1]

XP Pro, cause that's what it came with.

 

[imported_miahallen]

XP Home, cause that's what it came with, and Debian Sarge, cause I'm tring to learn Linux...

...still can't figure out what all the hub-ub is about.

 

[spherrod]

XP Pro

 

[timswim78]

Where's the poll?

Dual Boot of XP Home and Fedora Core 3

 

[phisrow]

Ubuntu 5.04(Hoary)

 

[cleverhandle]

XP Pro because 1) that's what it came with and 2) it's such a crappy Acer that most of the components are bargain basement garbage that no one uses and thus have little open source support.

If I were to purchase my own laptop, I'd get a decent Thinkpad and run Debian.

 

[n0cmonkey]

Mac OS X
OpenBSD

Depends on the laptop.

 

[bersl2]

Slackware
XP for one program and one program only.

 

[Fern]

WinME cuz thats what it came with. I'd rather have 98se on it, but I don't feel like trying find and install all the proprietary drivers neede for this Toshiba (at least I think they are proprietary).

FWIW, its my third and last lappie. I'd rather just build another desktop. I don't like carrying the thing, I don't like how they are harder to take apart, I don't the fact I can't swap parts with my other machines etc. etc

Fern

 

[xcript]

XP Home (because it came with it) and Gentoo.

 

[powerMarkymark]

Originally posted by: geldor1
XP Pro, cause that's what it came with.

Ditto

 

[Budman]

Where's the poll ??

 

[Red and black]

NetBSD

Why: I run NetBSD on all my computers because it is small enough that I can pretty much understand everything that's going on. No mysterious undocumented daemons floating around, no layers of crappy undocumented shell scripts.

Plus the people on the mailing lists are generally friendly and knowledgeable.

 

[WobbleWobble]

Dual-boot

XP Pro / Ubuntu 5.04

 

[Jon855]

I run Win XP Home and I dual boot with Ubuntu installed also. Why? XP Home came with it, Ubuntu --> LEARNING Linux

 

[Nothinman]

Debian.

 

[InlineFive]

WinXP Pro

 

[networkman]

What laptop?

 

[jadinolf]

Originally posted by: networkman
What laptop?

 

[oog]

xp pro and gentoo (different laptops)

 

[jameswhite1979]

XP Pro on all Pc's and laptops with SP2. Sounds main stream but damn I have to know that OS inside out for my job.

 

[drag]

laptop: Debian.
Desktop: Debian.
Server: Debian...

Wait.. I think I may be spotting a pattern here!

 

[Canterwood]

Windows 2000 Pro.

 

[hopejr]

Mac OS X 10.3.9, soon to be 10.4.0
It has OS X on it coz it's a mac and came with it and I don't want to put linux on it