Cobb

I haven't had one with XP.

It's so solid that XP is my home programming enviornment. Linux is now used for Unix testing and audio-visual storage.

I'm the biggest Linux/BSD/Unix zealot out there, but I must admit, I've been running XP on one of my boxes at home for the past year, and haven't seen a BSOD yet. Other than the crappy browser and gaping security holes, XP isn't half bad! :)

Windows on the inside, Linux on the outside. It's the only way I can be sure my network is secure.

I've managed to bump up my XP run time to almost a week by putting a gig of memory in my photoshop machine. Every four or five days, it just starts running slower and slower and, if not rebooted, finally hangs. The little microsoft error thingee says, in essence: we know about your problem, and we're working on a fix. SP2 hasn't fixed this.

The linux box has been up since May. The last time it went down was due to a power outage.

XP? So far, I have to admit that it doesn't suck. Which version of *nix do youse use? And D*, what language do you program in at home?

HP-UX / Linux / Solaris at work along with my workstation which I use to experiment with different distros, currently running OpenBSD 3.5 (previously Mandrake 10). At home, I've got an OpenBSD firewall/gateway, a Fedora Core 1 box for me and the venerable XP box for wifey. I've really fallen in love with FreeBSD and OpenBSD, and still want to try the Gentoo thing out one day.

My problem is with my laptop more I think than with XP. However I have backed out of an SP2 upgrade but noticed that there were still some pieces of it left around. For now I'm limping along on Win2K Pro.

hmm. good heads up. a buddy of mine just got around to doing his sp2 upgrade today. i'm gonna wait an see if the same thing happens to him as you.

D, thass some serious setup. Couldn't get X working on my old box with FreeBSD but i happily make do with Feather-Debian. If you can handle Free/NetBSD, Gentoo won't be too bad (try jumping in at stage 3 if you just wanna play around with emerge).

Gentoo will probably be my next workstation OS here at work (I tend to switch every 3 months or so).

Hey Cobb, what kinda laptop you got? I've seen some flaky XP installs on Compaq/HP Evos.

The machine that is now a media server used to run Win2K. But it limped along. It can only hold 128MB of RAM.

I program in Java "for real" and I'm learning C# and .NET. I haven't played with C++/C for a bit now.