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Old 05-05-2010
Which OS you use for Desktop

I am on Solaris 10

Code:
cat /etc/release
                       Solaris 10 10/09 s10x_u8wos_08a X86
           Copyright 2009 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
                        Use is subject to license terms.
                           Assembled 16 September 2009

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Old 05-05-2010
Code:
$ cat /etc/release
                       OpenSolaris Development snv_134 X86
           Copyright 2010 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
                        Use is subject to license terms.
                             Assembled 01 March 2010

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Old 05-05-2010
Code:
$ cat /etc/release
                        Solaris 10 8/07 s10x_u4wos_12b X86
           Copyright 2007 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
                        Use is subject to license terms.
                            Assembled 16 August 2007

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Old 05-05-2010
No-one said it has to be Solaris, right Smilie

Code:
$ system_profiler SPSoftwareDataType
Software:

    System Software Overview:

      System Version: Mac OS X 10.6.3 (10D573)
      Kernel Version: Darwin 10.3.0

and loving it Smilie

But I've been using this one at work most of the day:
Code:
# cat /etc/release
                     Solaris 8 HW 7/03 s28s_hw3wos_05a SPARC
           Copyright 2003 Sun Microsystems, Inc.  All Rights Reserved.
                             Assembled 11 June 2003

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Old 05-05-2010
Code:
OS X  10.4.11
Darwin 8.11.0

# 6  
Old 05-05-2010
my work laptop: solaris 10 update 6
private laptop I: mac os x 10.6.3
private laptop II: ubuntu 10.04
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Old 05-07-2010
Code:
$cat /etc/debian_version
5.0.4

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