FTO here, so naturally a cell phone to set off IDE's. OS of cell phone doesn't matter. It needs to be cheap because I'm just going to ditch it anyways.
Edit: Maybe a bad joke but a shoutout to the people of the world who only have a cell phone as a computing device.
Designer here, so OS X at home and work, DropBox across the board for files (hence making the laptops stationary), but I also use Outlook, PowerPoint - and check IE7/8 using Parallels when I absolutely have to. But I prefer Chrome. ;)
I run Ubuntu with a guest XP installation at home, a Windows 7 box at work for my e-mail and other corporate BS and a Solaris 10 machine at work as well for real work.
As much as I like Ubuntu and open source, Gimp won't replace Photoshop anytime soon. Photoshop is the only reason I still keep a Windows 7 VM on my machine.
Mostly OS X, plus ubuntu on my netbook. I suppose I'm going to have to get used to Windows when I work at Microsoft this summer... (haven't really used Windows since XP)
I ran freebsd in virtualbox at microsoft, and nobody cared.
edit: I should admit it would be nearly impossible to actually work in virtualbox (I was on the windows team, ymmv), but you can run it for whatever crap you want to do that isn't programming or email or editing docs
Probably more ahead of the game on new shiny things than Gentoo, too. Arch is the only OS that I have seen where the difference between testing and stable is about two hours.
No, really. The official process requires two signoffs on each architecture (x86 and amd64), and then they ship it.
And typically the AUR has whatever else you may happen to need, up to date as well. That was really what pushed me from gentoo to arch, maintaining portage overlays is a pain, and the official gentoo package repo never updates what packages _I_ think are important.
Back when I was compiling Linux on a 120MHz PA-7200 I would literally wait for days to compile KDE and a few other related packages, but with a modern CPU I now wait only a few minutes. I'm not sure that Gentoo has any real advantages over Arch but it's pleasant to use and it makes me feel good to tune my compiler flags and rebuild everything.
Use Windows 7 when doing engineering things (nearly all engineering programs are Windows only). Dual boots into Ubuntu for all my web development work.
There's something weird about the hardware specialization with chromeos though. About fall 2010 I accidentally my whole win 7 notebook and installed a copy of chromeos onto the harddrive before switching to arch Linux. Twas terribly slow and unresponsive, but this may have just been because of it still being a sec build not designed for a dualcore lenovo box.
Happy to report CR-48 is much more stable and fast with latest daily images.
Try out Jolicloud? I don't have a CR-48 and so I tried installing Jolicloud on my laptop but it wouldn't recognize my wireless, other than that, it seemed cool.
Dual boot my work laptop Windows 7 (Work image) and Ubuntu (personal image). The "browsing laptop" at home is on XP and Ubuntu. The netbook is Ubuntu NBR. The desktop is Ubuntu. Two other laptops had recent, uh, physical failures in their LCDs and mainboards getting too thirsty - both ran Ubuntu.
At that time if you read articles about people going to Java conferences(1), they kept remarking about how many people were using Powerbooks. Apple also had this really small Powerbook ... 11 inches?
Anyway, Apple also had the most modern Java installed by default. Linux was still involved in a persisting match with Sun about whose freedom was the freest (probably just Stallman, but nobody wants to get in his way), so Java was hard to find and would get you ostracised. IBM had their own bizarre mutant version that ran on their boxen. Microsoft was still not returning Sun's calls after the big court battle over visitation rights, and the version of Java you'd get on any new PC was essentially random in the range of 1..N-1, where N = most recent Java.
So, if you wanted to do Java development, Apple was the coolest.
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But here's the thing. Apple fans may mock Balmer(2) jumping around on stage like an Orangutan screaming 4.('developers!') but Apple doesn't grok developers the way Microsoft does, and probably never will.
Apple is just a hair's breadth away from actually disliking developers. There's times when I feel like if they could they'd lock third party devs out and never even shed a tear over it. There's times when they throw us a bone, but those are few and far between. And fairly often they'll just take the bone back.
Example: their language support is spotty. They gave up on Java, they supported and then gave up on various trendy languages and their respective Cocoa bridges.
Apple may grok consumers (though I'd argue that) but they sure as heck don't get devs.
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(1) lots of things were cooler back in 2003... nowdays.... not so much.
(2) There were plenty of Microsoft fans doing exactly the same mocking of Balmer, so don't interpret this as an 'us vs them' thing
That's almost identical to my timeline (currently a mix of OS X and Ubuntu.) I wonder what is next. In your timeline you've been on OS X for 6 years and the longest duration you list for any OS is 7. I wonder if I'll ever use Android, iOS, or Chrome enough to consider it primary? And if not, what?
My first computer was powered by Windows 3.1 and DR DOS 5. I made it a dual-boot with RedHat Linux several years later.
When I was working as a developer,there has has been a dual-boot between FreeBSD and Windows XP. But in most of the years I used to run Cygwin on a Windows XP. But Finally I switched to a pure Ubuntu workstation last year.
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edit: I should admit it would be nearly impossible to actually work in virtualbox (I was on the windows team, ymmv), but you can run it for whatever crap you want to do that isn't programming or email or editing docs
No, really. The official process requires two signoffs on each architecture (x86 and amd64), and then they ship it.
Vista is currently on my coding laptop, and I will be replacing it with with Win 7 or Ubuntu.
I want to check out Mac sometime soon though.
OS X at work (Rails mostly & PHP).
Edit, just noticed the "desktop OS" specific part. So, yeah, Fedora on my laptop, and - if you want to count this - Android on my phone.
There is a 64 bit kernel floating around but I haven't tried installing that yet.
Happy to report CR-48 is much more stable and fast with latest daily images.
Android and IOS on the phones.
At that time if you read articles about people going to Java conferences(1), they kept remarking about how many people were using Powerbooks. Apple also had this really small Powerbook ... 11 inches?
Anyway, Apple also had the most modern Java installed by default. Linux was still involved in a persisting match with Sun about whose freedom was the freest (probably just Stallman, but nobody wants to get in his way), so Java was hard to find and would get you ostracised. IBM had their own bizarre mutant version that ran on their boxen. Microsoft was still not returning Sun's calls after the big court battle over visitation rights, and the version of Java you'd get on any new PC was essentially random in the range of 1..N-1, where N = most recent Java.
So, if you wanted to do Java development, Apple was the coolest.
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But here's the thing. Apple fans may mock Balmer(2) jumping around on stage like an Orangutan screaming 4.('developers!') but Apple doesn't grok developers the way Microsoft does, and probably never will.
Apple is just a hair's breadth away from actually disliking developers. There's times when I feel like if they could they'd lock third party devs out and never even shed a tear over it. There's times when they throw us a bone, but those are few and far between. And fairly often they'll just take the bone back.
Example: their language support is spotty. They gave up on Java, they supported and then gave up on various trendy languages and their respective Cocoa bridges.
Apple may grok consumers (though I'd argue that) but they sure as heck don't get devs.
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(1) lots of things were cooler back in 2003... nowdays.... not so much.
(2) There were plenty of Microsoft fans doing exactly the same mocking of Balmer, so don't interpret this as an 'us vs them' thing
1990-95: MS-DOS 5.0, Windows 3.0, and OS/2 Warp.
1995-97: Windows 95
1997-2001: Windows NT 4.0 (Came free with Visual Studio 6.0)
1998-2005: Various versions of Red Hat, for both desktop and server.
2001-2007: Windows XP
2005-2011: OS X (Latest Version)
When I was working as a developer,there has has been a dual-boot between FreeBSD and Windows XP. But in most of the years I used to run Cygwin on a Windows XP. But Finally I switched to a pure Ubuntu workstation last year.