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Poll: What is your primary development system? Mac, PC, Linux, Other

• mindcrime 16y ago
  Primary dev box: Fedora Linux on a Toshiba laptop. Miscellaneous dev/experiment boxes: Various flavors of Linux (CentOS, Fedora) on a mishmash of PC hardware; and EC2 instances when needed, or just for playing around with Hadoop.
• hector_ka 16y ago
  Primary dev system is a Windows 7 laptop because i bought it like that.Secondary system is an Ubuntu machine. And the third is an embedded system with Debian.
• watmough 16y ago
  iMac White 20". Oldie but a goodie. However, the LCD is starting to decay somewhat, with lines and smudges internally, and 3 Gigs ram is getting a bit tight.
• spooneybarger 16y ago
  i cast 2 votes as i have two machines, one linux, one mac.
• shiftb 16y ago
  I use my MacBook Pro 15" as my main development system. I have virtual machines setup for some projects usually using Ubuntu.
• alex3t 16y ago
  4 years ago worked on Windows, when tried Ubuntu and after that Mac, I never return back. I cant understand how LAMP or Rails developers working on win machines, I'v 2 XP running computers at home and using them only for gaming(very rare)
• beej71 16y ago
  Arch Linux on a quadcore with FVWM is my machine of choice. VirtualBox for XP and Win7, but that's just for web testing, and for using my old copy of Adobe CS3 when needed. Secondarily, I have an Arch netbook I use on the run (also for video skype). The lid switch works, even. And lastly, a MacBook Pro that gets used for iOS dev.
• dman 16y ago
  Debian with gnome and devilspie
• bitwise 16y ago
  Ubuntu 10.10 x64 Core i7 2600K 16GB DDR3
• iwjames 16y ago
  Windows 7 (PC game development). I would probably be on Mac if I could.
• shii 16y ago
  No love for BSDs?
  • jarin 16y ago
    Does anyone use any BSD distributions other than OS X? ;)
    • shii 16y ago
      Yes. I use FreeBSD on production and dev servers. I use OpenBSD for other uses unrelated as well. Darwin is based off of FBSD. NetBSD runs anywhere, and OpenBSD is one of the most security-concious operating systems. Just because some people use Apple's shiny new fad doesn't mean everyone does.
      • jarin 16y ago
        A 10 year old operating system is a new fad?
        • prodigal_erik 16y ago
          And most of it dates back to NeXTSTEP in 1989.
        • shii 16y ago
          Sorry, I meant to convey the idea of Macs often being fashion statements. All the cool, hip kids use it to build their social coupon webapp weekend startup from a coworking space in RoR with a NoSQL backend while listening to indie rock.
          • jarin 16y ago
            Well I gotta admit you have a point, that's pretty much me except with Lil Wayne instead of indie rock.
          • rosenjon 16y ago
            I would never use RoR for my social coupon webapp. ;P
• patio11 16y ago
  Windows Seven w/ Ubuntu running in a VM. It would be 100% windows but faking all the server-side components got too tough.
  • baddox 16y ago
    I haven't used VM software for ages. Do you get good enough performance on virtualized Ubuntu to do all your developing?
    • asymptotic 16y ago
      Yes. It turns out 12GB of RAM does come in handy. (I have the same setup, Win7 w/ Ubuntu VM). What's more annoying is doing port mapping through VirtualBox's XML configuration files, but this is a one-off task and not too complex. I'm seriously considering purchasing Mac OS X Server edition and using that in a VM as well but I can't figure out if this actually works. Does anyone know?
      • thirsteh 16y ago
        Just switch to Bridged networking in the VM and don't care about port mapping at all? (It will have its own IP.)
        • asymptotic 16y ago
          In case anyone else stumbled upon this thread, I've always thought running a VirtualBox VM in Bridged Networking mode still did not allow the VM instance to be externally accessible. However, then I read this ServerFault thread and realised the bridge is a _new interface_, and hence you must either bind directly to it or bind to all interfaces in order to get your VM to become externally accesible! http://serverfault.com/questions/206498/virtualbox-bridge-network-unable-to-access-certain-ports http://serverfault.com/questions/206498/virtualbox-bridge-ne... Fantastic!
          • thirsteh 16y ago
• justrudd 16y ago
  An iMac 27" is my main development hardware, but I use VMWare to run Debian where I do all my development. I've also got an i7 Debian Server running where I deploy to make sure stuff works on real hardware before it hits my host. I'm currently in the market for a "sofa programming" laptop. I'm thinking the 11" MacBook Air or the new Lenovo X220.
  • baddox 16y ago
    I too am interested in the X220, but man are all those ~13 inch laptops pricey.
• jagira 16y ago
  Linux Mint + Windows 7 Dual Boot
• jarin 16y ago
  2010 Mac Mini with an 8 GB RAM upgrade so I can just leave MySQL, Postgres, MongoDB, and Redis running all the time without giving me problems when playing Starcraft II. I have Windows 7 running in Parallels, but the only thing I ever use it for is testing in IE.
• nantes 16y ago
  Yay geek porn! Desktop -- 2009 Mac Mini 2x2.26ghz/4GB/320GB running Ubuntu 10.04 Laptop -- HP Pavilion dv2700(something or other) AMD Turion(tm) 64 X2 TL-60/4GB/60GB SSD(!) running Ubuntu 10.10
• prodigal_erik 16y ago
  Home is a gaming desktop which dual boots Vista and Ubuntu. Commuting is a new Win7 netbook; Emacs and GHC work fine, so I haven't bothered saving the recovery image and settling on a GNU distro yet. Work is a decrepit XP box due to be replaced, apparently with a Mac, which I guess I'm okay with if OS X (unlike iOS) continues treating owners as human beings and tinkerers. Servers at work are openSUSE.
• emeraldd 16y ago
  Gentoo running on a Dell Inspiron 1525 at home. At work I run Gentoo on a Dell Optiplex 980 ( I think I have that model right)
• jfdi 16y ago
  27" iMac, 15" PowerBook. Win 7 in a VM on each. Laptop is the mobile option when the desktop gets too cramped or need some air. Now & then I'll boot up an EC2 image (typically Ubuntu) and dev in the terminal if I'm in a pinch.
• ygooshed 16y ago
  i have 4 machines. 3 runs ubuntu. 1 runs windows.
• koenigdavidmj 16y ago
  Home: Laptop with Slackware. A lot of the supposedly more user-friendly (okay, less user-hostile) distributions have a knack for leaving a mess of my machine without my telling them to. Or ignoring my configuration files. Or changing their init system every other release. Slackware gives me vi and bash and then stays out of my way, so I have no need to switch. The laptop has a bit of exotic hardware that plays poorly on the BSD flavours; otherwise, I would probably use one of them. Work: The thing sitting under my desk runs XP. It has three purposes: Outlook, internal IM, and a NoMachine session hooked up to a VM with CentOS 5.
• rosenjon 16y ago
  Bought a Mac off Craigslist a year and a half ago to do development for iPhone; it was a beat up MacBook Pro 15" from 2006 with slightly messed up screen (backlighting was uneven). However, it was a good deal compared to a new Mac ($600). It turned out I ended up using the Mac much more than my Windows machine. Why? Because it would come back from sleep in < 15 seconds, whereas my Lenovo would sometimes take 5 min to come back from sleep. Also, Windows would sometimes reboot my machine in the middle of coding a project. It had apparently "warned me" with some difficult to see message, and then just started shutting down my machine with no significant prompt. It would then sometimes hang in the update process, forcing a hard reboot and then another 10 min wait for startup. This was Win 7, mind you. I took a nice paying dev project back in October, with the intention of using it to buy myself a new machine. I ended up buying a new MacBook Pro 15" with the anti-gloss screen and on the higher end of the hardware specs. Am in love with the computer. One of my housemates asked if he could borrow my Windows machine for an Excel class this weekend; I handed it over without hesitation. Haven't turned it on in months. I originally thought I would have to install Parallels or boot camp when I first got my new Mac, not wanting to have to parallel path with the a separate Windows machine. In truth, I haven't ever installed any of these options. With Mac Office 2011, 99% of what I need to do is available. In the rare case when it's not, I may boot up the Windows machine for a one-off look at an Excel spreadsheet or something like that. If I were MSFT, I would be worried. Around campus, the Apple logos outnumber the Macs in a big way these days. Two years ago, this was not the case. I'm a business school student, and Windows has always had significant crossover on campus from the corporate world. Our official school laptop is the Lenovo I don't use anymore. Windows was always kind of a pain, but the variety of software available for it gave it tremendous leverage. I was a Mac addict as a kid, all the way up to around Windows 95, when it just became impossible to continue supporting the platform; the ecosystem had wilted at that point to a shadow of its former self. I have basically been on Windows since then, until the recent switch back to Mac. Windows continues to ride the legacy train all the way to the graveyard. You can't do as bad of a job as MSFT has done in terms of maintaining a core platform and expect to maintain market share. Everyone from the CEO down should have been fired for Vista. Win 7 is basically the maintenance release that Vista should have been. In the meantime, the Mac has exceeded it by leaps and bounds.
• cowpewter 16y ago
  Hackintosh: Intel 3.1 ghz core 2 duo with 8gb ram on a Gigabyte GA-EP45-UD3P. Vanilla retail install of Snow Leopard, only thing I had to patch was the sound kext, and it (so far) has taken automatic updates all the way up to 10.6.6 (haven't tried 10.6.7 yet) seamlessly. Love OS X, love getting to pick my own (cheap!) hardware even more. Though if I ever get rich, I want one of those Axiotron Modbooks so hard (Macbook pro taken apart and given a Wacom penabled touchscreen).
• carucez 16y ago
  win7 not by choice
• daimyoyo 16y ago
  Once I decided to start a new career as a developer, the first thing I bought was a new MacBook pro. It's great. Keep in mind that the computer I'd had before this was a Dell Latitude from 2006. I bought it back in 2008 and while it worked for what I used it for, it was REALLY slow to boot, had almost no RAM, and the outside was broken. One thing I've believed in since I had my first job was to use the best equipment you can afford, because that way you can grow your business without outgrowing your equipment.
• jensnockert 16y ago
  MacBook Pro with OS X for most of my hacking and a desktop running Fedora for when I feel like I want a nice proper linux desktop (instead of VNC/X11-forwarding to a server).
• ypirate 16y ago
  Good to see the Apple "defend the flag" alert list getting used to good effect this morning. No, they're not fanboys. They're .... just ... enthusiastic.
• sbalea 16y ago
  Main dev machine is an old MacPro, with 2 x 3GHz quad core xeons and 8 GB ram (and dual 30" cinema displays :) The laptop is an even older MacBookPro, first gen 1.83Ghz Core Duo, with 2GB ram. Still works like a champ. Windows 7 and Debian Squeeze run in vmware fusion VMs. Debian is also what runs on my deployment servers.
• actf 16y ago
  I think these results will be inaccurate. How can I answer this question if I run Windows 7 as my OS, but use a Linux VM to do development work? Does Windows 7 count as my primary development system? What if I run Windows 7 at work, but do all my personal projects on Linux or OSX? Again, it's unclear to me, what counts as one's primary development system is in this scenario. It's also worth noting that the pole permits more than one selection, which defeats the purpose of asking, "What is your primary development system".
• octopus 16y ago
  MacBook Pro 13" from 2010 with 4GB of RAM. I also run Windows XP/7 and Ubuntu 10.10 on VirtualBox 4.0. From my experience VirtualBox is faster and more reliable than Vmware.
• euroclydon 16y ago
  I'm working on a print server written in JavaScript using Mozilla Rhino, and I have configuration definitions for: Windows Server, Windows 7, Windows 7 Parallels, and OSX.
• eccp 16y ago
  Ubuntu 10.10, Windows XP on VirtualBox when needed
• chorny 16y ago
  Windows + Strawberry Perl - almost all CPAN modules can be installed without problems.