Subj : Re: Computer operating system of choice?
To   : boraxman
From : tenser
Date : Tue Feb 08 2022 12:23:33

On 07 Feb 2022 at 07:31p, boraxman pondered and said...
 
 bo> Probably a banal question, but I'm curious as to what Operating Systems
 bo> people prefer to us.

Interesting question.  Systems I use regularly at home:

* macOS (laptop and workstation)
* Plan 9 (runs most of my network infrastructure; I also
  regularly use a physical plan9 terminal)
* OpenBSD (all my firewalls/routers and a few servers)
* FreeBSD (dev boxes)
* DragonFly (for development and ham radio)
* Linux (mostly Arch; Mint on the kiddos' computer,
  Armbian/RaspberryOS for some ham radio stuff; Pop_OS!
  on a System 76 laptop)
* Multics on DPS/8M
* TOPS-20 on DECSYSTEM-20
* OpenVMS on Alpha (need to fix that fan...)
* RSTS/E on PDP-11/73
* 7th Edition Unix on PDP-11/70
* Pr1meOS on Prime 50
* 4.3BSD on VAX 8650
* NOS 2.8.7 on a Cyber-175
* VM/CMS on an IBM mainframe
* illumos

Obviously, many of these run on emulated hardware; my
actual VAXen are all powered down, but it's faster and
more reliable for most of these things to run virtual.

Hardware architectures include x86_64, Alpha, MIPS,
RISC-V, ARM (aarch32 and aarch64), VAX, PDP-11, PDP-10,
Pr1me, 6180, z/Architecture, CDC 6600.

I'm a systems person; I work on OSes for a living.  The
variety gives me a lot of valuable perspective that's
useful in my work.

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