Just curious, what OS and Version are people running on their "main" machines? Win 2K here... (I showed you mine, show me yours? :) (And you may or may not find this interesting: 85% of the folks surfing 'rosity free stuff are running MSIE as their browser)

XP on the main machine here. 85% MSIE? I'm not sure what the general average is, but it sounds low. Are Renderosity people more geared towards Netscape than the general public? (If they were, I would welcome it! Every move to disturb the Micro$oft plan for world domination is a good one)

I use Windows XP Home Edition. Yes, I used Internet Explorer 6. I'll refrain from commenting on the other comments.

W2K server. Hasn't crashed yet... crossing my fingers.

linux and vmware

XP home, IE6 stable as a rock and I never shut it down except when installing new hardware or software

XP Pro on this machine, win2k pro on the rest and IE6 on all of them. And I never have any problems either.

Depends which way the swivel chair is facing... '98, XP Pro, 98 and if the lap top is docked, Win ME.

XP Home IE6 and just happy as heck with them both also, very excited about P5

I'm using Mac OS9.2 and Internet Explorer (5 I think!)

Win2K Pro on 3 main systems, Win XP for home on notebook, not my choice, and Win98 on one of my other test machines. Happiest with Win2K Pro. Use Explorer 6.0 with the exception of two sites which will not work unless I use Netscape, Daz being one of them and this just recently started so it must be something new on their end. I don't know why so many people hate B. Gates, he's a businessman, he does good business. If you will notice AOL/Time Warner has the DOJ looking into their business too, and I think more will be coming under the scrutiny of the DOJ since this thing has happened with all these companies committing fraud. I buy Microsoft products because I like them, and I haven't found anything yet that compares to them. Every program has bugs, so you deal with them and move on. Marque

I almost skipped this one, but just for the random amusement value of being different: At home, Mac OS X 10.1.5. (With Mozilla 1.1b, by the way. IE is probably 2nd best, but Mozilla's tabs are addictive. I'm surprised IE hasn't stolen them yet.) At work, Tru64 UNIX V5.1 on an Alpha. Also with Mozilla 1.1b. (Though my lowly EV6 chip is no longer the fastest on the planet, it's still faster than most. It'll never run Poser, though... ;-) )

Oh, and I don't slam other OS's like Mac and Linux, I don't worry about what other people like to use as long as we are somewhat compatible. Some people like to wear spiked hair and rings in their noses, some people like to dress up in the latest fashions, I don't do it but I don't care if someone else does. If it works well I use it, if it doesn't I can it. Marque

Kelderek: On the "85% MSIE," below are the browser statistics for www.geekantics.net. The only "significant" content on that site are 53 "free stuff" items offered here and a couple of other "poser centric" sites. Most of the "hits" come from people looking through the free stuff area here, which dowloads the corresponding thumbnails. The site has been on this server since mid June.

MSIE   627165   85.221% Mozilla   77800   10.572% Opera   11167   1.517% Mozilla (compatible)   9832   1.336% [not listed: 74]   9966   1.354%

Win2000, WinXP and Linux. I browse on all systems with Opera. ;D

Interesting statistics, jchimim. I just looked up statistics we did on a commercial site with about 2 million visits per day, it showed 97 % IE. But, enough about browsers, this thread was about OS ;-)

Yup, I think this community is a bit more "anti-M$" than most. :) What got me curious was someone stating in an earlier thread that Mac had about 10% of the overall market, but someone else pointing out that Graphics people tended to use Macs more than the general population. John

Win 2K Pro

win 95 here and red hat

OS X on both the tower and laptop. IE 5.1 on both.

Graphics Workstation: Windows 2000
Programming Workstation: Windows 2000/XP Pro/ME/98SE
Server: Windows 2000 Server

Chris

jchimim, according to recent IDC statistics (Q1 2002), Apple holds a market share in the US of 3.48%. I have no worldwide figures, but I doubt they differ significantly from that. They have a higher penetration in the graphics market, they focused very early on this market and still has a strong presence there.

jchimim, Mac has only become a good system for 3d since the advent of OSX, so a 3d forum probably isn't the best place to test this! I think 'graphics people' refers to the publishing industry and even there I think it's more like 50/50 mac and windows these days. It varies throughout the world too. Here in the UK publishing is still mainly Mac. This survey was done a few months ago and if I remember rightly this site had a higher than average number of Mac users but it's still mainly windows, about 20-25% Mac I think. Baz

WinXP Home and IE6 here :o)

WinXP home and work Win2000 on server

Almost same as PhilC here: WinXP, WinME and WinXP. IE6 on all three, steady as a rock.

98 on my net machine (the one I'm typing this on) and XP Home on my main machine.

work (physicist) Mac OS X home/hobby Mac OS X all machines have never crashed ... current uptime points to the time the current version of the OS was installed.

XP Home Edition and IE6.

On my home computers Mac OS 9 and X and on my PCs Win 2000 and 98, though I do also work with other OSs both on Macs and PCs where I work.

XP pro and IE6

Mac OS X and 9.2 at home, Win 2000 and Mac 9.2 at work.

Win98

OS: Win98 SE (ya, if your lookin at me now it shows Win2K; cuz I'm at work....AND WITH NO POSER, WHAAAAAA!) if it matters: IE 5.5 and sumtimes NeoPlanet (whatever the most current is?)

Home is XP Home and IE6. Work is XP Pro and IE6. Have not had a creash since XP was loaded. Laptop is only one still using Windows ME. Don't use it for graphics anymore.

Windows 2000 IE5.5 Two 60 GIGs HD (7200) 21in flat monitor GForce video card (32Bit) 1.5 AMD Athlon 3x512 RAMs "can't pur anymore in ;("

Mac OS 9.2 at home (I'll migrate to OSX when the Mac version of Poser 5 comes out) Windows 95 (yes, I know they ought to upgrade but that's not my decision) at work (but I never use Poser there) IE both places

Mac Os X, IE 5.2

XP Pro Swedish and XP Pro English

Win 2K Pro. Bill's best that I've tried, almost as stable as DOS 3.3!

OS-X at home and powerbook, XP at work. IE for browser.

Mac OS 9.2.2 on G3 & G4, OS X on iMac but I don't like it so it just sits there! IE 5.1 won't let me purchase (error) so I have to use Netscape 4.7 for that.

XP Pro, Netscape.

OS 9 at home. 8.6 at work. Netscape and IE for browsers.

Win 2K on two machines, XP Pro on the third. All rock solid, with no crashes. IE on all. Microsoft all the way and happy with it. Years ago I used to buck the trend. I owned many Amigas and Atari ST's. I even owned a Mac back in the monochrome days. Funny how back then, when there was some <> choice in the marketplace, everybody wanted to flock to Microsoft like lemmings. If you argued the merits of anything else, you were shot down in flames. Today, now that there's no longer any viable choice, everybody seems to hate Microsoft. People are funny that way. As for me, I don't care. I just want to get my work done.

Win 2K with no intention for XP at the moment.

Windows XP here on my new Dell. It has to be the best windows yet in my humble opinion. Does anyone remember OS2 Warp from IBM? That was a great OS!

Win XP Home & IE6 only ever crashes when I fiddle with things I'm not supposed to otherwise is the most stable windows I've used so far.

Win2K and 98SE on a dual boot system. The '98SE is for games and stuff. Win2K is just amazing.... installed it in June, been 99,9% stable. Netscape mostly, IE when I have to. :] FishNose

Win 2k on one machine, Win XP on the other. Teeter between Opera 6 and IE 6. Opera seems to cache pages much better.

Win2K pro and ie 5.1. Would you believe my work pc had win 3.1 on it till only a short while back.