Poll : Your Operating System

Anything about MUSIC but doesn't fit into the forums above.

What Operating System do you use for your Audio Computer Setup?

Windows XP
155
76%
Windows 2000
8
4%
Windows NT
0
No votes
Windows 98
5
2%
Windows 95
0
No votes
Mac OS X
28
14%
Mac OS 9
1
0%
linux
4
2%
other
2
1%
 
Total votes: 203

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I can't believe he's still calling it "Logic". Lucky for him the OSX users are only 10%!

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Wow, so according to that screenshot you can not only input notes but you can view what you've input too. WOW! What an incredible feature! And in full color! No more green monochrome monitors for me!

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To bring it back on topic, check this out, Babya even made his own OS replacement:

http://www.fileplanet.com/118965/110000 ... em-XP-2004

To Babya: Sorry if I'm coming off as an asshole, but what on earth are you trying to do with this software you release?!!?!

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Why would you want WinXP to look like...that?

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So you can be as cutting edge as the rest of the extraordinary Babya products. Wow, how could you NOT wanna have your OS look like that? I'M SOLD!

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butter wrote:
speccyteccy wrote:
butter wrote:How's Server 2003 running on that laptop? I know a few IT guys that run Server on laptops. How much ram are you using?
Dell Latitude D810, Centrino 2.13GHz, 2Gb RAM.

Installed 2003 in 20 mins, then installed all the Dell XP drivers that came on a cd with it.

Had to manually install the XP drivers for the wireless and the graphics - their setup.exe's detect that it's 2003 and won't install.

Works flawlessly now - it even boots up with no errors or warnings in the event log, which in my experience is unique!

Fast as feck too.
Why did you do Server 2003? Stability? For work? for the hell of it? For the average end-user it's overkill.
It's a work pc - had to install 2003 on one disk to run Sharepoint Server and IIS6. I know it's subjective, but 2003 'feels' quicker than xp - a default install of 2003 doesn't have all the server services running, and doesn't have some of the crap that xp does. Apart from that, it's very similar to xp when using it as a workstation. I still need to compare running audio apps on each though.

I have killed 2003 once though - tried to create a bluetooth pan between my laptop and xp desktop - blue screened them both when i clicked connect!

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Too bad it's radio buttons and not checkboxes.
I can't participate in the poll if I have to pick only one.

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james0tucson wrote:Too bad it's radio buttons and not checkboxes.
I can't participate in the poll if I have to pick only one.
So you use all your OS's equally?
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Well it seems it's no use bothering with old Win 9x machines any more...! That's good news!

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speccyteccy wrote: Dell Latitude D810, Centrino 2.13GHz, 2Gb RAM.
Installed 2003 in 20 mins, then installed all the Dell XP drivers that came on a cd with it.
Had to manually install the XP drivers for the wireless and the graphics - their setup.exe's detect that it's 2003 and won't install.
WOW! I just got a new Dell M70 for work and I had considerably less trouble partitioning the drive and installing Red Hat Enterprise 4. It was every bit as easy as Windoze and nearly as fast. All I did aftertwards was install the latest nVidia drivers for my QuadroFX1400 and the RPM's for the latest build of WindowMaker and I was away. I love it! [but I can't really use it for much beyond surfing the web at the mo'].
NOVAkILL : Legion GO, AMD Z1x, 16GB RAM, Win11 | Audient EVO 8 | Lumi Keys | Studio Pro 8
Korg Odyssey, bx-oberhausen, Proxima, PolyMax, GR8, JP6K, Union, Atomika,
Invader 2, Flow Motion, Olga, TRK 01, Thorn, Spire, VG Iron

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BONES wrote:
speccyteccy wrote: Dell Latitude D810, Centrino 2.13GHz, 2Gb RAM.
Installed 2003 in 20 mins, then installed all the Dell XP drivers that came on a cd with it.
Had to manually install the XP drivers for the wireless and the graphics - their setup.exe's detect that it's 2003 and won't install.
WOW! I just got a new Dell M70 for work and I had considerably less trouble partitioning the drive and installing Red Hat Enterprise 4. It was every bit as easy as Windoze and nearly as fast. All I did aftertwards was install the latest nVidia drivers for my QuadroFX1400 and the RPM's for the latest build of WindowMaker and I was away. I love it! [but I can't really use it for much beyond surfing the web at the mo'].
Funnily enough, I've spent the whole day trying to install Linux on it. DL'd Demudi, but it wouldn't recognize my hard drive (???), so tried Debian, and then x-server wouldn't start. Finally worked out why, but can't get sound to work and can't get a higher resolution than 1024 x 768. Guess I'm going to have to track down drivers for (at minimum) the graphics and sound, and preferably for bluetooth, wireless, touchpad, adsl (if they exist), and work out how to install them (I'm a Linux newb). If I can't get the screen and audio working by lunchtime tomorrow, I'm formatting the disk!

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Which kernal did you install- 2.4 or 2.6? 2.6 is the one that will actally play nice with modeately current hardware. I tried installing Planet CCRMA FC1 a while ago, and the installer locked up because 2.4 doesn't like SATA. I've installed several 2.6 based distros since then without too much trouble (or any at all, really).

Groet, Erik
Pop music delenda est.
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tetraplan wrote:Which kernal did you install- 2.4 or 2.6? 2.6 is the one that will actally play nice with modeately current hardware. I tried installing Planet CCRMA FC1 a while ago, and the installer locked up because 2.4 doesn't like SATA. I've installed several 2.6 based distros since then without too much trouble (or any at all, really).

Groet, Erik
I've no idea - just dl'd the lastest Demudi and Debian distros, so I assume 2.6.

To be honest, I've not really got much idea what I'm doing (or why!), and it honestly seems to me that Linux isn't much of a leap from Windows 3.1 - I'd love to be shown otherwise though.

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Why Debian? I've looked at a couple of Debian-based distro's but they seem awfully hard compared to Red Hat based ones. This is the first time I have installed Linux on anything in 5 years or so and I never really felt like I was anythign but a Linux noob. RPM's make installing things easy, there is no way I could compile anything from a tar.gz myself.
NOVAkILL : Legion GO, AMD Z1x, 16GB RAM, Win11 | Audient EVO 8 | Lumi Keys | Studio Pro 8
Korg Odyssey, bx-oberhausen, Proxima, PolyMax, GR8, JP6K, Union, Atomika,
Invader 2, Flow Motion, Olga, TRK 01, Thorn, Spire, VG Iron

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I originally chose to install Demudi after Fake's posting on how to get VST's running - that was the distro he used. When that didn't work, I chose Debian, for no particular reason at all - I just went to distrowatch and looked a the top ten. Ruled out Ubuntu and Knoppix (I'd tried them before and wasn't too impressed) and SUSE and Fedora wanted me to download four or five cd's - I like the fact that I could download a minimum installer for Debian and let it get what else it needed of the net.

What would you recommend?

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