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.

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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

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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

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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)

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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

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At home: Mac OS X, the best-looking OS I've seen and it's stable too. On my PC I have Windows 98, not so stable. Linux is also hiding somewhere on the PC. At work: Windows 95 and Mac OS 9, not too stable either of them..

Win XP Pro on 3 machines, Win 98 on 4th machine and Win 98 on laptop. IE 6 on them all. And no problems with any of them! :)

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Poser user through P5

Win98 and Netscape 6.2 on a Pentiumsaurus (P-II). When I upgrade it will be to Win2Kpro. No way will I EVER use xp/spyware/your-data-is-ours-to-abuse-at-will, and I HATE HATE HATE Internet Exasperator in all variations.

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Nobody is save. With the service pack 3 for Win2000 you get the same spystuff as in WinXP. :PPP

OS X 10.1.5, awaiting 10.2, and Mozzilla 1.1 - can't do without tabs!

Now: Win ME Win 98 SE RH 6.2 Soon: Win XP Pro for the servers Win XP Home for the portable RH 7.2 or RH 7.3 for post-processing( multi-boot same servers)

I just upgraded from '98 to XP home, I find myself completely happy with it, also as a total relief. I was good at maintaining my '98 setup, it was still an "abominable" OS compared to XP. Alex

Still Win 98SE for me at the moment - I'm too busy and have too much important stuff on there to mess around upgrading to another OS right now. (Hate all that nonsense with installing new drivers and fiddling with IRQ's etc! Bah!) Dave (Who really needs to learn the benefits of "Time Management") ;-)

XP Pro retail on the laptop (IE6) Stripped down, and secure. It's "Live Update" day today! I surf from the couch on this one :) XP Pro (MS Select) on the desktop, it came with IE6, but it's a moot point as it'll never be connected to the 'net. I have poser and everything else installed on this one. later jb

Main computer OS9.2 and IE 5, Netscape 4.7 & 6 (different sites need different versions for fetch and purchase). &aol5 for the family chat rooms on Sundays. Will go to OSX.2 when I get a new computer and only install the OSX programs, forget the switching to classic. Golden oldie computer OS 7.5, Earthlink and aol.

Win98 SE. Athlon T-Bird 800, 128 PCI 100 RAM, 20 Gig HDD, ATI Rage 128 XPERT 2000 display adaptor, 20 inch monitor. Poser 4.0.3.

Win 98SE on 4 PCs + 1 multiboot PC running RedHat 7.2, Win 2000 Pro & Win98SE & 2 senile laptops running Win95.

oops, hit post before saying Poser 4.0.3

Win98. Cybermax pc, 30 Gig HD, 17" monitor, 300Mhz Cyrix processor (yes, i know cyrix sucks), 64MB RAM (even worse), and Internet Explorer 6.

This one is different: Modified Win95 prior to OSR2, Windows 3.11 with win32s, Linux , each is his own partition. Browser = Netscape 4.78

Stupidity also evolves!

2k pro. Don't want to deal with 98 or XP, thanks. :)

Win XP Home and IE 6. Love XP!!!!

Hey... where's my thread gone?!? I could have sworn I replied at number 8 or 9! XPPro on my home workhorse, Win98 at work and soon an iMac running 9.1ish or X. But I have to promise to let Kit use that one! It's a girl-box! She'll not get a look in. Wooaahahaha! H:)

MAc os 9.1 at home Mac OS 8.6 at work (one of these days I'll upgrade). Use IE 5.0 most of the time

OS X at home Win 2k at work ( no chioice here )

Mac OSX and Classic, use both IE and Netscape (can only make secure purchases at the 'Rosity Marketplace with Netscape)

OS 9.2.2 two versions of Netscape and IE 5.1 5 is is the only version of IE that had more than a 5 min life span on my system this was due to crappy graphics handling of previous versions.

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Win 2K pro here

On the various machines around here we use; 486 with MS DOS6.2 and Window 3.11 (used strictly as a CADD machine - some of my old hardware, a scanner and a plotter will not run on anything newer), the 10 P3x733 units that make up the render farm use NT 4 SP6, my laptop is dual boot Win98SE and W2K Pro, my main machines are a Mac G4 running Mac OS 9.2 (I have a copy of OSX but reformatted back to 9.2)and an Intel P4x2Gig which runs W2K Pro hooked to a KVM

win 98 se (for some reason, its rock stable on my PC)

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Right now, I'm running Win98 SE, but I'm trying to get a dual boot with Red Hat Linux 7.3 set up. Having a bit of problems with partitioning; looks like one of the partitioning programs I tried is confusing the Linux install now, so I'm trying to fix that. (Suggestions welcome. ^_^;)

The Lone Dragon of the Apocralypse is running Win98 First Edition, and will not upgrade to XP until he can afford to replace his motherboard, processor, memory, etc. Or until Win98 FE self-destructs. Whichever comes first. Butch, I remember OS/2 Warp. I remember hearing good things about it. I also remember watching it get crushed by the release of Win95. sigh

Win2kPro, Win98, and Mandrake 8.1 Linux. If Poser was Linux compatable it would be my number one OS.

Win2k, runs best, I have used Poser4 on NT4.0, Win98 and XP. I use Win2k on home PC's, Laptop and work PC's.

Dual boot ME / W2K sp3. Both on same partition and I share program directories. Can install a program to a custom directory, reboot, and reinstall to same directory. That way when switching OS's my settings from the previous session show up. It also saves on HD space. There are problems associated with using a non partitioned C drive, but they can be overcome. IE6. 1.4 amd, 512ddr ram, ATI 8500DV card. Network for Bryce Lightening. DSL. Two scanners, HP 890C, dvd and cd burner (cheapest backup device you can get. Lots of USB game stuff (I prefer saitek). Firewire for the camcorder, usb for the digital camera. But the dream machine, aside from top end amd/ram, may be dual processor (almost built this one that way) and purely win2k. As soon as I'm done with home kernal type software, I'll ditch ME and stay only with w2k. We use xp pro at work on the workstations with w2k server. That's ok there. I don't want xp at home.

At home: MacOS X. Mozilla 1.1b. Looking forward to Poser 5 for MacOS X.

At work: Sun UltraSparc. It does not run Poser :-(

95 online 98 3d

9.2.1 . . . and it crashes and freezes relentlessly. I make sure it does, otherwise it isnt being pushed far enough. Got OS X to get iMovie 2, then left it to late to get Office 2001 so I need it to run Office X. Maybe if Poser 5 only came out in 9.2 it will be out at the same time, let the X version be late. My version of OS X is labled BUILD 5J34 whatever the hell that is.

At home: XP Pro & W2K Server; Mozilla 1.0 At work: XP Pro (IE 6), W2K Server, NT4 (IE 5.5) and NT4 Server -- Mark

Mark

laptop: Win2000 Pro workstation at home: WinXP Pro server at home: Win2000 advanced server Butch, I remember OS/2 Warp also. Used it for quite a long time in a dual boot with Win9x. It was a very good OS, but I think 2000 and XP are the same quality.

Millennium here. (Windows, not Victoria ;-) ) Win2000 Professional on my other machine.

Thanks for the response everyone! Gonna watch it another day or three, then tally up and post results here...

Laptop: Win200 Pro Desktop: .net server D

Win2K Pro on one and W98SE on the other. (I'd upgrade the other in a heartbeat..... I love 2K, but I can't find a driver for my printer that'll work with it, and can't affford to replace it right now)

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Results: 88 responses for Windows (76%) (38 for XP, 28 for 2K, 22 for others (NT, '95, '98)) 27 responses for Mac OS (24%) (18 for OS X, 9 for others) Many people were running multiples, each was counted. Also a few folks running Unix/Linux/Solaris. NOTE: Purpose was to satisfy curiosity, not start a "my OS is better than your OS" war. Thanks a lot to all who responded!