<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 2/13/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Emerson, Tom</b> <<a href="mailto:Tom.Emerson@wbconsultant.com">Tom.Emerson@wbconsultant.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
At
the general meeting, 20 people signed in, [though we had 22 in the
"drawing", and I know about 4 or 5 declined]. The question
of the night, scientifically chosen to match the subject matter, was<br><br> "how many systems are on your boot menu (and what are they)?"<br><br>Outside
of a couple of tongue-in-cheek answers of "which system?" [from folks
with many many systems], the usual answer was "2" (about half of the
respondents overall); and the two systems were generally some form of
windows and a big-name distro. The odd answers within this
were:<br><br> -- Fedora Core (4) and DOS<br> -- slackware and Ubuntu (the only claim of two different Linux distros)<br><br>Perhaps the oddest combo of linux + windows (in my mind) was Slackware and win98.<br><br>The
most common "windows" was XP (though I'm not distinguishing between
"home" and "pro") There was at least one win2000, and as
noted above, one instance of "DOS" [though this is technically more
correct than all the other "windows" respondants, which are actually
answering the question "how many user interfaces do you actually use on
your system and what are they", though this would have generated
answers such as "win9x and KDE" or "Gnome and XP", "bash and the DOS
command line" -- you get the picture I'm sure...]<br><br>I suspect you
could draw some conclusions about the order in which the answers were
written (i.e., whether windows or linux was listed first) but that
could all-too-easily incite a flamewar :)</blockquote><div><br>
I think I listed XP (Pro) first, followed by Fedora Core4. Since I have
only used XP 5 or 6 times in the last year, just long enough to do
whatever I started it for, plus update XP, Spybot, etc., the correct
conclusion about listing order may be that /dev/hda1 is XP and hda5-9
are Fedora.<br>
</div><br></div>To expand my response, I also have <br>
PII running Solaris 7 and NT4, <br>
two Linksys WRT54Gs running White Russian<br>
Sparc5 running RedHat6<br>
Mac with OS 10.4<br>
two Macs with 10.2<br>
PIII with Ubuntu and XP<br>
an old PC a client gave me which will probably end up with BSD or Gentoo or something lean.<br>
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