As a GEEK with a love for techie toys,
Here is what I have:
Work:
Sun Ultra Sparc 5 maxed out with 2 processors and RAM. Running Solaris 2.6 Although I am upgrading to Solaris 8 next week.
Sun Ultra 1 standard build with Solaris 2.6.
Home:I have 100mh Ethernet run thru my house with a commercial T1 for internet access.
IBM P200mmx with 64 mgs of ram (for the wife and kiddies) I am running Windows ME on it and it is pretty stable. Actually I have not had ANY issues since loading it almost a year ago. I keep it running without rebooting it for days.
I have a Micron Dual Process PII 450 with 512 mgs of ram running WIN2K Advanced. I had professional running but the o.s. crapped out on me and I had to rebuild it after about 5 months. With the current service pack everything seems fine. I leave this one up for weeks at a time with no issues.
I also have a Dell CPx Latitude with PII 500 and 256 mgs of ram running Win98se and travel with this alot. I have it set up with 2 different docking stations. And on various networks with ease!
I also have another Dell CPx Latitude with PII 500 and 512 megs of ram. I have a 14 gig hard drive and have a triple boot system with RedHat Linux Professional, Solaris and WIN2K professional.
They all work well, and I have not encountered any issues with those.
I am not bragging, just stating my case.
Solaris on a SPARC is the most stable and reliable system available for development. Matter of fact I connect VIA SSH and use Hummingbirds Exceed as an X server client. I run my whole Solaris Desktop thru my Micron Server.
I would say that second is a tie with Win2k and Solaris for Intel Platform.
I do not develope much in Linux but RedHat seems solid and a very close 3rd.
Win98se is very easy to configure and very capable, but lacks the server support needed for heavy enterprise development. Plenty of client apps but no server stuff.
WinME is okay, and I do not have any problems with it. BUT I would never develope under that OS platform.
My humble opinion!!! :-)
