[aipz]

I'm using Win98 because:
1. It wastes less resources of my old computer than XP
2. I've had troubles with soundcard drivers after intalling Win2000/2003, and the system crashed...

[wolfdog]

98, 2K Pro SP4, XP Pro SP2....

With 2K as my primary OS, since XP is just a little too unstable for me...

[Scuddie]

XP unstable?  Maybe if you're not running with enough RAM, but otherwise, you shouldn't see that in XP.

Anyway, I've got XP SP1 for my primary machine, and a Server 2003 machine for tinkering with (though it hasnt seen much action lately).  

I would have voted Linux, but due to the fact that nothing in linux is commonly unified, I was driven away from it, with my most previous distro being Ubuntu.  Now that's pretty sad.  Why, oh why doesn't linux have a common library setup?  Microsoft had the right idea with DirectX and MSVC++ runtime libraries.  All you need to run Windows are essentially those two things.

[Darkage]

XP pro, Solaris8,9 and 10.

[Martinus]

Originally posted by vyper


Define stripped-down.

[color=66ff00]Hmmm, lets see.

I entirely got rid of WMP, as much of IE as I could do away with, all unnecessary themes and media other than the oldschool, less memory intensive classic theme. Got rid of as many windows components as possible without breaking anything.

I got rid of file protection as it's largely unnecessary and just keeps a folder full of identical files.



There's a few tools that allow you to do this, GreyWolf does it manually but that's a bit too much hassle for me to be honest as I'd rather invest my time learning more about Linux in any case.
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[Primus]

I apologize... I have the Win Me.

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]You have my pity Primus, nobody should have to go through that.
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[kode]

xp/ubuntu

I have plans to give solaris a whirl, tho. if the download had been smaller than 2.5 gigs anyway. 500k "broadband" not ftw.

[Martinus]

[color=66ff00]Ouch, haven't looked at Solaris myself.

Why such a large download?
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[kode]

Originally posted by Maeglamor
[color=66ff00]Ouch, haven't looked at Solaris myself.

Why such a large download?
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they have it at uni, but I haven't seen the server side of it, and I'm a bit curious.

I dunno, but I figure it has something to do with it being "the most advanced operating system on the planet". I could order the dvd, but that costs money. they might not have online repositories. full set (non net-install) of debian is like 15 cd's or something, isn't it?

[aldo_14]

Solaris is Open Source now, IIRC.  Incidentally.

[kode]

Originally posted by aldo_14
Solaris is Open Source now, IIRC.  Incidentally.

yeah, it is.

what I really want though is a sparc server.

[wolfdog]

Originally posted by Scuddie
XP unstable?  Maybe if you're not running with enough RAM, but otherwise, you shouldn't see that in XP.

yes, it simply crashes more on me than 2000 -'specially while gaming-
and explorer (not IE, I don't use that) also has a tendecy to hang at least a few times a day. Guess it just doesn't really like my hardware/drivers.
And unless 1GB is not enough.... oh, well.. I never really understood it myself either... and I  don't really care... 2000 works just fine.

[Fury]

wolfdog, your issue is starting to sound something like BIOS update and resetting BIOS settings after the update might solve.

[kode]

Originally posted by Scuddie
XP unstable?  Maybe if you're not running with enough RAM, but otherwise, you shouldn't see that in XP.
 

your directx/msvc++ comments aside, what drugs are you on? I've succesfully running windows xp on 256mb of ram on two computers for weeks (only one computer now as I upgraded ram for this one...), without anything crashes. and then I've also run ram intensive java applications and abused the hard drive a lot. If you know how to set things up, you can run a stable xp on very little ram.

not to say that ram doesn't help performance...

[Darkage]

The Solaris 10 Download is indeed rather big the 4 required CD's are together 1.69GB.

Although you can download Solaris 9 wich is 655Mb
You only need the CD1 and CD2 iso files.
you can also download the Software supplement wich is onmly 403Mb

Lucky for me i got Solaris 2.6, Solaris 7 Sever, Solaris 8 and Solaris 9 with tons of software on original CD's for both Intel Platforms and Sparc platforms the Solaris 9 pack i have the CD and DVD install packages.

And i Downloaded Solaris 10 Sparc version and the X86 version.







The las pic is a general view off my messy desk:D

Hosting 2x Sun Ultra 5 sparc stations and 2x 21" inch CRT Monitors.

[CP5670]

XP is quite stable. I haven't had it outright crash at all since I was testing overclocks several months ago. You just have to disable all the crap that runs in the background normally, which makes it similar to 2000 anyway.

[Scuddie]

Kode, do some thinking before you post.  When someone says "XP with not enough ram", they usually mean the bare requirements - 64MB or 128MB.  It is possible for there to be not enough ram for the OS to work, ya know.  256MB is plenty for moderate use, and is definately not "very little ram".  You should know that by now.

[kode]

Originally posted by Scuddie
Kode, do some thinking before you post.  When someone says "XP with not enough ram", they usually mean the bare requirements - 64MB or 128MB.  It is possible for there to be not enough ram for the OS to work, ya know.  256MB is plenty for moderate use, and is definately not "very little ram".  You should know that by now.

64mb ram was a friggin lot years back. heck, when I started with computers, 8mb was a ****load of it. nowadays, 256mb is very little. 1024 is almost average.

with little ram, you increase pagefile size. then it'll run pretty stable, but slow.

[mikhael]

*shudder*

If you run any 2k or XP machine with less than 512mb of RAM, you're either a cheapass or a masochist. With RAM as cheap as it is these days, almost anyone can afford to max out the slots on their motherboard (assuming of course, you could afford to buy the machine in the first place).