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Vista Ultimate and XP Pro. Probably updating to Windows 7 when it's released; used the beta for a bit and was pretty happy with it.

I develop on Ubuntu 8.10 (I'll probably upgrade to 9.04 beta soon though) and Mac OS X 10.5

Well to make this post a bit alive.
I wiped linux and Im sorry for it (probably going to install it back in few min).
Anyway all who multiboot: how do you share information? Im pretty sure you dont store your music on both OSes.

Either you create a FAT partition that you can mount under Linux and Windows or you just put it on ext3 or NTFS (which has more space) and install a ext3 driver on Windows and a NTFS driver on Linux. My FUSE NTFS driver works fine, but I had problems installing ext3 under Windows.

skwo wrote:Well to make this post a bit alive.
I wiped linux and Im sorry for it (probably going to install it back in few min).
Anyway all who multiboot: how do you share information? Im pretty sure you dont store your music on both OSes.

The only thing I need to share between Windows and Linux is my music. For that I have an NTFS partition that I mount on Linux with ntfs-3g.

skwo wrote:Well to make this post a bit alive.
I wiped linux and Im sorry for it (probably going to install it back in few min).
Anyway all who multiboot: how do you share information? Im pretty sure you dont store your music on both OSes.

I've got all my music, movies, and most of my code all located on a linux box with a 750GB RAID array. It runs both Samba and NFS, so I can access the good stuff from most anywhere. On my Macbook Pro I've got a copy of all my favorite music, since the laptop goes with me to work, and I can then listen to my music on my iMac at work via iTunes sharing.


Oh, that copy of my favorite music... is 30GB!

Hosts:
Vist home basic
Windows 7 beta with guests:
Ubuntu 8.10
Puppy linux
Xp Home SP2
Windows 95
Gentoo

Mainly windows 7 beta and ubuntu 8.10...
I had to reinstall ubuntu since i dropped a fork bomb on it... The devastation was so devastating that even the filesystem got unclean. fsck failed to recover it and hence i had to reinstall..

How good to be back to Arch

What - nobody uses their own OS? I suppose I'm being a hypocrite (I don't use mine), but isn't this an OS development forum?

I used to use mine as a network filter that ran constantly, but since I re-arranged my network I haven't.

I doubt many people here *can* use their own OS as a general-purpose desktop OS. It takes a very long time and a lot of hard work to get an OS self-hosting.

My OS is nowhere near self-hosting (probably impossible until I write or port a 16-bit C compiler) but I do keep a floppy loaded with the latest release of TBOS just in case I have a dead hard drive or something for an old box and I need to have a working floppy-booting OS.

[offtopic]I'm soon going to attempt writing a FAT12 HD driver (basically mod my floppy one to take a drive number )[/offtopic]

nickbjohnson4224 wrote:What - nobody uses their own OS? I suppose I'm being a hypocrite (I don't use mine), but isn't this an OS development forum?

We're *close* but still have a long way to go before I can use Pedigree outside of testing. As it is currently I can write software and browse the internet on it, but it's just not functional enough to replace another system

As for my current setup: Ubuntu 8.10 with Vista for gaming and Visual Studio dev.

quok wrote:

skwo wrote: Oh, that copy of my favorite music... is 30GB!

ha.. my friend is running out of room on his laptop cause of his music.. he has about 50G.. if you count movies.. 200G.. and yes it's all pirated.

nickbjohnson4224 wrote:What - nobody uses their own OS? I suppose I'm being a hypocrite (I don't use mine), but isn't this an OS development forum?

I have my OS installed on two of my machines but as it is now it's not really usable. For the next version it should be at least semi-usable though - I plan to have a simple GUI and networking support.