Gerhard Fiedler wrote:
> Mark Hanchey wrote:
>
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>> I once used windows xp for development but had windows 7 on my
>> desktops. It seemed to be a good OS overall so I then put windows 7
>> on my development computers as well. Lately though I have been
>> annoyed by several things that I didn't encounter with xp. IDE
>> applications that have access violations and close, programs that
>> once worked but now don't due to things like inability to access the
>> parallel port and just general bugs and errors here and there.  Some
>> applications will not run at all and just close because they were
>> written for windows 98 and unfortunately the creators are no longer
>> around or don't have new versions. I tried compatibility options but
>> still some don't work.
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>
> As others said, you can use a VM for WinXP (both VMWare and VirtualBox
> are free and run well on Win7) or Win7 XP mode.=20
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I just use XP
I have 2nd laptop with Ubuntu.
Most of my tools either have no equally good Linux version or not at all=20
on Linux.
My main 1.8GHz 1600 x 1200 screen XP laptop hasn't been re-installed in=20
10 years+
I have 2 x PCs that are nearly 4 years old. Never a problem or crash.

My experience is that XP problems are bad configuration, bad drivers or=20
faulty HW. There is no reliability issue with the OS.

I've also been using UNIX since 1986 and Linux since 1999. We have=20
Apache and MySQL on our win2K server in attic. We only go up to press=20
the power switch when Electricity outage is going to exceed UPS time.
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It depends on the kind of development you do if Linux or XP is=20
appropriate. For 3 years I had Linux on 4 PCs as I was doing a lot of=20
stuff related to VOIP, Firewalls, Routers etc and Linux driver=20
development. I had to have two  kernel  versions back then.
I can't see any point to OS X though unless to develop for iOS and OSX.=20
Overpriced narrow choice of HW and even less of the tools I use run on OS X=
..

I've maintained Vista and Win7 on other peoples machines.
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