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Slashdot has THIS poll this week. How many have you used? There was some debate if mac OSX versions counted as seperate oses or if different linux distros were one or individual.

This is my list:

• DOS (its been so long so I’ll ignore versions and count it as 1)
• Windows 3.1/95/98/ME/NT/2000/XP (damn.. thats at least 3, maybe 7)
• Mac OS 7.x/8.x/9.x/X (I will say 2 definitly, 4 is stretching it)
• Linux Redhat, Mandrake, Gentoo, Debian, Slackware (distros count? count this as 1 to 5)
• FreeBSD (what I currently use religiously)
• OpenBSD (secure, but useless as a workstation)
• NetBSD (consequential, .duq.edu mail server)
• OS/2 (remember this?)
• Solaris 7.x, 8.x
• BeOS (fun, but not very useful)

Why did I count *BSD seperatly and Linux as one? Linux is just a kernel. It could be a grey line because different distros sometimes do things differently.. so its pretty loose. The final tally is anywhere from thirteen to twenty three. Pretty impressive diversity, if only all users would try something new once.