A More Definitive Operating System Poll

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What OS do you use the most frequently?

Linux
21
51%
Proprietary BSD
0
No votes
*BSD (FreeBSD, OpenBSD, DragonFlyBSD, etc.)
4
10%
Windows (NT-Based)
11
27%
Windows (DOS-Based)
0
No votes
Mac OS X
4
10%
Mac OS (9 or earlier)
0
No votes
Haiku
0
No votes
BeOS
1
2%
Proprietary DOS (DR-DOS, MS-DOS, etc.)
0
No votes
FreeDOS
0
No votes
Commerical UNIX (HP-UX, Tru64, etc.)
0
No votes
Solaris/OpenSolaris and derivatives
0
No votes
OS/2 (eComStation)
0
No votes
PureDarwin
0
No votes
Plan9
0
No votes
SkyOS
0
No votes
AmigaOS
0
No votes
Other
0
No votes
 
Total votes: 41
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Alxe wrote:As the typical example: When using the "Linux" system, try removing "glibc" (GNU C Library) and see if any of your beloved applications work. :)
If you have it. Some distros use other toolchains for various reasons, like they work better for imbedded hardware.
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But no Linux system replaces all the little but essential GNU shell tools like ls, rm or mkdir.
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Crush wrote:But no Linux system replaces all the little but essential GNU shell tools like ls, rm or mkdir.
You never know. The ones from Sun might be useable.
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it is even more likely that you use gnu than linux.
missing GNU/HURD
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Isn't there a gentoo linux which has a bsd userland? :P

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Also how do you call Debian with a BSD kernel? GNU/BSD?
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I think I heard is something like kDebian..
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