What is your operating system of choice?

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Mac OS X Tiger. It owns children.

Why tiger and not leopard? Owns children?

The pwning of children. This is a good thing?

openvms ftw
they should of used that instead of unix in jurassic park

I haven't upgraded to Leopard yet.

On my servers (on the rack in the basement), Debian Stable (Etch currently). On my ThinkPad, Debian Testing (Lenny currently). On various workstations around the house Debian Testing. On my mac, OS X 10.5.

I'm an IT guy so I do have to deal with Windows quite frequently, but I won't personally run it on any computer I use. I have an old Dell Latitude D600 in the closet that has XP on it.. for when I absolutely positively need Windows for something. Basically it's just when I want to flash a new rom onto my phone.

XP, although I did a dual-boot with Ubuntu before my old hard drive gave way.

I have an XP system and a Red Hat Enterprise 5.1 system at my apartment (the XP is technically my girlfriend's but we use both frequently) we also have the first computer I ever used, my dad's old Commodore Amiga.

My mom has an XP that is in horrible condition because she calls me up frequently because of problems with my two younger sisters clicking things they shouldn't.

XP. Tried Linux Ubuntu but couldn't get drivers for everything so had to junk it.

Avoiding Vista like the plague.

Can I have VAX VMS please? Pretty please? All those neat job control commands.

• OSX 10.5 on my MBP along with Bootcamp/XP for gaming while away from home (probably the system I use most).
• XP on the gaming monster (Will get Vista for more games in future, and OSX86 because the huge monitor will be great for graphics and video work)
• OSX on my file server (Powermac G4 with RAID card and about 2.5TB of disk space. Will be replaced by a pair of 1TB drives in an external firewire 800 enclosure when I can afford them)
• XP on the P2P system (stripped down all in one motherboard system to keep power usage down). Hasn't been used in months though.
• XP/OSX86 on Gaming PC #2 (OSX is so I can have full access to the file server without fetching the laptop)
• XP on the old PII sat on my workbench (For running MPLAB/PIC programmer and looking up docs while doing electronics stuff)
• OpenBSD on my firewall/router/web server.
• Gentoo Linux (amd64 hardened) on my game server (Dell PowerEdge 1950 that is going to be colocated once I've got all the parts, added more games, and tested it fully)

I'd have to say OpenBSD is my favourite, just because it's so easy to use right from the start, and is made by the most anal programmers out there, so every line of code is close to perfect (has to be to track down security holes).

Gentoo needed a little more poking to get an environment I could work in, and came with a huge problem in that the hardened kernel didn't work with hardened userland until I'd recompiled glibc (only mentioned in one forum thread, and not on the download page/readme).

You are wise young Jedi.

My laptop has vista, which doesn't really bother me too badly anymore, but it isn't much fun...
I do carry around a flash drive that boots knoppix so i don't have to deal with the woefully bare school computers.
And I just got a new desktop which has PCLinuxOS on it (not my choice...), so i plan to wipe it and put something more interesting on it. I've narrowed it down to Fedora, OpenSUSE, or Gentoo if i'm feeling really courageous...

My home laptop runs Windows XP Home, my work laptop runs Windows XP Pro, and my devel/file server runs Linux From Scratch.

Currently experimenting with Hardened Linux From Scratch - can't get the damn thing to boot in QEMU.

VMS, which as far as I have been able to tell
is the only stable OS in the universe.

What about OS/400 (or whatever they call it these days since renaming it to iseries.)

theres also MVS and OS/390 those are quite stable as well.

I do have an OpenVMS Hobbiest license though BTW.

windoxs xp proffesional x64 edition