Which OS do you guys use ?

[Code]

Hey, which OS do you guys use for OS development ?

[Pype.Clicker]

Real Yodas only code under Linux ;D

[Curufir]

Linux. Tools and scripting are just less hassle to use than on Windows (Most of the tools are available for Windows though).

[smiddy]

Windows XP, DOS, and smiddyOS. Occasionally SolarOS and Menuet OS.

[Dex4u]

I use, win98 for OS Dev, as in a dosbox and notepad, i have both linux and xp, but much perfer win98.

[Warrior]

Windows Server 2003 or Windows XP

[AR]

Windows XP and Windows XP x64. I have Gentoo Linux and FreeBSD installed as well but I find the desktop environment to be less comfortable then Windows with Cygwin.

Plus it's also easier to just start up a game after coding for a while.

[Colonel Kernel]

XP Pro with Cygwin, and Linux running under VMWare. Mostly Windows though -- I just use Linux to make sure my build environment works on more than one host OS.

[Candy]

Solely Slackware Linux, since I usually spend around a day customizing it to make my osdev commands take only one command for compiling and testing & stuff... Most windows stuff is still windows and I just don't trust it. I have never seen a decent windows box hold up for more than a year (yes, my own box which was stable for a year is now screwing up - doesn't recognise USB sticks at all). I think my OS dev is going to take more than a year so I'd like the box to hold as well.

Average for windows boxes depends on the "experience" of the user. If he's very unexperienced and using it reasonably much, it'll hold for 2 weeks. If he's fairly experienced (say, senior Informatics student) it'll hold 4 months (which sucks, since our current project is in its 5th month). If he's very experienced it'll hold over a year, but not much. These all assume you use your computer fairly much and install/uninstall quite a lot.

I only use linux for serious stuff. My laptop has only linux (and a windows partition that's never even been mkfsed) and my main box has only windows (to make place for more music ).

[distantvoices]

Linux, for the sake of make outta church o' st. gnucius.

It's just convenient to develop with linux for all the required tools come with it - no install party ala windows just to get a simple compiler-linker-write_to_disk_img thing up and running.

[Solar]

Used to use Windows / Cygwin (hence it was me who wrote up the Cross-Compiler tutorial to get around the various footfalls with Cygwin).

Have changed to Linux since, mostly for security / cost concerns. Can't say how it affected my OS development work since I'm no longer doing any.

[distantvoices]

@Solar: that's a pity, ye olden medieval berserk . May your "bruche" never rip. *sfg*

[mystran]

I use Linux for OS development, and everything else as well.

I've been thinking of installing either Hurd or Plan9 as well, but neither really supports enough hardware...

[TheUnbeliever]

Fedora Core 3 Linux. I tried to do it on Windows and failed miserably, so I did something I wanted to do anyway and dual booted.

[DennisCGc]

For doing OS development, I mainly use Slackware Linux (10.0 fyi). For school things I use Windows.