Which OS you are using for development ?

[Da_Maestro]

I'm using WinXP with bash. I luv linux but my laptop has a winmodem that linux doesn't like .
(Either that or I pay $US19.95 for a driver).

[kermit]

I'm running linux (four boxes, gentoo on two of them, and slackware on the other two). I have xp laying around somewhere, but I've never felt comfortable developing in it. So its linux for me =]. (and for you freeBSD'ers, I gave it a good go awhile ago, but it wont even boot on this laptop... :/.)

and, like carbonbased said, I use my two older boxes to test out the OS (when I'm not using bochs, that is =])

[desjardins]

Since only 1 other chirped in with FreeBSD, I felt I had to support him by saying its both my development environment at work and home.

[kattmat]

I use the only right thing to use: Mac OS X =) Developing for x86, though, since that's the assembly language I know. Using GNU binutils, GCC and nasm (crosscompiling) and debugging in bochs. Works just great!

[__matt__]

kattmat: I wish I had a Mac or some other non-x86 based computer so I had an excuse to learn a different assembly language. I think assembly hacking for the x86 and PC platform (especially boot code) is painful, although I'm slowly learning how to do it right. I've read some docs and code for MIPS and Alpha AXP, and I think that the RISC-based assembly languages and instructions for each are much nicer than the x86 equivalents. (If anyone has an unused RISC machine like that lying around, I'll be happy to take it off your hands!

For (OS) development, I use DJGPP on Win2K, or Linux. I have no trouble with either, but I can work a bit faster in Linux because I can type fast and I rarely need to use the mouse. I don't have another PC or emulator to use as a test box, so I test my OS projects on my development PC.

[bubach]

I would also love to have a new mac, but the budget is tight enought allready...
I am using XP pro. with fasm (fasmw as editor) and winamp..

/ Christoffer

[kattmat]

Go buy a Mac Mini. $499 only, with a G4/1.25GHz processor. That'll do for most of the stuff you want to do, since I'm on an old G3/450MHz and surviving just fine. ^^

[AWOSDev]

I am using a 1.6GHz Presario 2100 laptop with 496MB RAM (I know that sounds weird but it sucks up video memory) for development, and also sometimes a 300MHz Pentium II with MMX for development too. But she's slow because she has the IP router, Exchange server, IIS, FTP, Active Directory, everything. And on 208MB, I know I'm insane.

For testing I of course use both a evaluation copy of VMware (my clock gets set back frequently ), Bochs 2.0.2 and a Compaq ProLinea 4/50 486DX2. And by OS still boots in < 1 second, with IRQ handlers, sleep mode, timer, and basic keyboard functionality.

And eventually I'll probably test my OS on a Gateway P6-450. It's a P2 with no MMX (?) and 80MB RAM that I found laying on the street next to the dumpster, just shove a HD in it and it's good as new! No case but other than that I needed another computer anyway.

Andrew
http://www.GeoCities.com/AWOSDev *under development*

[Legend]

I wouldn't post this with VMware in a public forum on the net.

[Hery]

I use:
Computer: AMD64 (Athlon 64 3000 (1,8 GHz), 512 MB)
System: Windows XP Professional
Text editor: Crimson Editor
Compiler: NASM
Emulator: BOCHS
Floppy-image writer: PARTCOPY

I also test my OS on:
x86 32 bit (Pentium III 500 MHz, 192 MB)

[intel_breaker]

I use:
CPU: 750 MHZ
RAM: 384 MiB
O.S: Red Hat 9.0
C compiler: gcc 3.2.2
ASM compiler: as 2.13.90
EMULATORS: bochs,qemu

[Osbios]

dev system: Athlon 800MHz; 768MB RAM; XP & Debian stable; Nasm and Bochs on both OS

test system: 2 x P2-200Mhz smp; ~24MB RAM


I dont like C, perhaps because I never learned it. :>
Currently I thinking about my own assembler. Nasm is good, but I have some problems and its more easy to implement self writen stuff in my os then other programs.

[Automatic_Jack]

Well I surf the web, researching stuff etc, oh and code on a Winblows machine. I code with Flat Assembler and slap binary to sectors on disks with debug. Then boot it on the old Celeron sitting next to this computer, or really any other computer in the house that has a floppy... I have too many computers...

Anyways I have TASM, MASM, FASM, TC, DJGPP, all of the M$ .net and prior vb releases, I even have like 4 versions of QBasic on this thing somewhere. Dont use most of them though, just sorta collect them. I actually have MSDOS 4 on 5 and a quarters on the top of one of my bookshelves...

[theubu]

I do all my development on my Ubix Cube.....

[carbonBased]

I'd imagine I've mentioned this before, but:

1.4Ghz Athlon, overclocked to 1.6Ghz, running one of Linux, WinXP, BeOS, or QNX (OS compiled in all four).

GCC 3.2+ (depending on OS)
Nasm 1.9x+
LCC 3.6 (soon to be 4.x)
ant (latest)
...

I do most of my development (aka 99.99%) in Linux.

--Jeff