How many pc's do you own and with what OS?

ltam · #1 3rd March 2005, 01:04 AM

My family and friends have been harassing me for owning/running 3 desktops (with several harddrives to make like I have even more pc's) and one laptop. I just realized when looking at the Gallery of 'Workstation', most posters own at least 3 PC's. All of a sudden, I feel as if I'm among friends. How many pc's do you own and under what OS's? Other threads have already asked what you use your pc's for so I don't want to duplicate the discussion. I'm just curious what the distribution of pc ownership is. If you would like to give some description of their usage, that would be good too.

I'm running ...
1 - AMD64 3200, 1.0 Gig Ram, Fedora Core 5
1 - ECS, Duron 1.7 GHz, 512 M Ram, CentOS 4 (file and web server)
1 - MSI, P4 1.8 GHz, 1 Gig Ram, CentOS 4 (file and print server)
1 - ThinkPad A31, XP Laptop, P4 1.8 GHz, 384 M Ram
1 - Acer Aspire 5002 Laptop, AMD Turion 64, 1 Gig Ram, 100 Gig HD, Ubuntu 8.04 as host and Fedora 9 in Virtualbox, Original WinXP removed.
1 - eeePC
1 - MAC Book Pro
1 - Acer Aspire One Netbook
1 - Asus eeePC 1000 - eeebuntu
1 - HP 1000 Netbook

Stats update:
So far, looking at those who voted, the 1 pc owner is the minority. We need more voters.

Message Update February 1, 2006
It's almost been a year since this thread started. Many forum viewers have visited and contributed to this thread. A recent post really made this thread show it's true value. The post listed an inventory of 20 computers. This is a special group of enthusiasts. Our love is computers and our passion is collecting as many flavours of it as we can. If you're visiting this post for the first time or the 10th time, update this thread with updates you have made to your addiction. How many pc's do you own and running what OS's.

Message Update June 21, 2006
Just got a new laptop. Acer Aspire 5002. Updated list above

Message Update May 27, 2008
Acer Aspire 5002. Runs Ubuntu 8.04 as host and Fedora 9 in Virtualbox

Message Update Mar 11, 2009
Got a few more to add to my collection.
MAC Book Pro
Acer Aspire One Netbook
Asus eeePC 1000 - eeebuntu
HP 1000 Netbook

Cheers and happy collecting.

***bob*** · #2 3rd March 2005, 01:21 AM

I've got my main machine running FC2 and Win XP, my test box (on loan to my sister) with FC3 and XP and my wife's machine with just XP (but I still love her). All boxes are boring beige towers with nothing special as far as guts - but have very nice flat screens!

ltam · #3 3rd March 2005, 01:25 AM

I've been considering to buy nice thin flat screens. My worry is what am I going to do with all that space recovered from the 17inch monitors on my desk?

crackers · #4 3rd March 2005, 04:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ltam

I've been considering to buy nice thin flat screens. My worry is what am I going to do with all that space recovered from the 17inch monitors on my desk?

Enjoy it! (I just got a 19" TFT to replace my tube 17" and my "desk" is a two-foot wide table. I needed the space!

Current count:
Two self-built desktop boxes (unfortunately in full-tower cases - them suckers is noisy), both on FC3
One IBM T-41, also running FC3
The home-control system and backup firewall on FC1 (if it ain't broke and you don't use it much, don't fix it).

Hrothgar · #5 3rd March 2005, 01:27 AM

Just the one home built pc.... fc3 and WinXP dual boot.... Antec Sonoma case (black) MSI KT6V mobo AMD 2800 cpu, ATI 9600XT card 1gig ram NEC monitor flat screen.....

DaveW · #6 3rd March 2005, 02:10 AM

I have a total of 4 systems running on a my home network. All except the laptop run 24/7/365....for the most part.

1-FC3/WinXP Pro dual boot desktop
1-FC3 desktop
1-Windows XP Pro (wife's computer)
1-HP ZD8060US Laptop w\17" LCD screen running Windows Media Center 2005

megaprogman · #7 3rd March 2005, 02:15 AM

I have one pc that I use for school with windows xp. Its a 2.0 ghz pentium 4 with a gig of ram and a nice video card.
I have another pc that I use for a server. At the moment debian is installed on it (fedora was just taking up too much hd space) but I don't have it fully configured. 1.1 ghz duron, 512 megs of ram, 40 gb hdd, onboard everything. fairly quiet
I have yet another pc partially dismantled in the desk cabinet. its a dual pentium 3 550 mhz, 512 megs of ram, 20 gb hard drive, i am thinking of removing one of the processors for heat purposes and using it as a router.
My last pc is not really mine, its a company issued laptop, but i'm the head of the IT department, so I use it anyway. It has fedora core 3 on it, no plans to change that. 2.66 ghz pentium 4, 40 gb hard drive. the rest is detailed in my signature.

oUch · #8 3rd March 2005, 02:32 AM

1- Tower with XP
2- Tower with FC3
3- Tower with 2000 Server
4- Laptop with FC3
5- Desktop with 2000

awdac · #9 3rd March 2005, 05:17 AM

Let's see:
Dell Dimension128MB 500MHz Celeron - FC3
Dell Inspiron 5000e 256 MB 650MHz PIII - Windows XP Pro/FC3
Compaq Proliant 800 256 MB Dual 200MHz PPros - Gentoo
Frankenbox 256 MB RAM 450 MHz K62 - Free BSD
Sony VAIO 512MB 2.4GHz P4 - Windows XP Home / FC3

And cheers to the person who came up with the KVM...

age one · #10 3rd March 2005, 05:29 AM

home machines - amd 64 3400+, FC3 /xp and a IBM with AMD athlon running SUSE 9.1 pro
work -a toshiba satalite 1805 with FC3, and a old PII NEC labtop running win 98se, only used to run VAGCOM (volkswagen scanning software, its awsome but no worky with linux)

nephila · #11 3rd March 2005, 08:20 AM

I got:
1. Proxy Server, P1 1Gig 256 RAM running Fedora 3
2. Main Box, P4 2Gig 512RAM running Windows 2000 and Red Hat 9
3. Spare Box, 800Mhz 128Ram running Solaris

chiku31 · #12 3rd March 2005, 09:34 AM

I have two pc and one laptop:
1.) AMDXP-2600, 512 RAM, 80G HD, 20 G HD, Fedora core 3,
2.) P4 2.4, 1G Ram, 2 X 120G HD, 80G HD, Xandros/Xp
3.) Laptop P3 600mhz, 256 RAM, 10G HD, Xnadros/windows 2000

#13 3rd March 2005, 09:48 AM

I have 7 machines and two laptops. My main OS is, of course, FC3. I also have CentOS 4 (based on RHEL 4) installed on a few of the other machines and one laptop.

ltam · #14 3rd March 2005, 11:13 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by greatscot

I have 7 machines and two laptops. My main OS is, of course, FC3. I also have CentOS 4 (based on RHEL 4) installed on a few of the other machines and one laptop.

I just downloaded CentOS 4. Going to install it tonight. How do you like it?

Varkk · #15 3rd March 2005, 10:29 AM

Main Rig:P4 1.8 @2.4, 512MB RAM GeforceFX5900. Runs FC2 it is what I do most of my stuff on, gaming surfing and some work.
Laptop:P4m 1.8, 512MB RAM. Runs RH9 I use this for most of my uni stuff.
Finally a P3 450 with 256MB RAM which sits headless in the corner. I use it as a Torrent server I control via VNC.