Poll

What operating systems / environments you use for your data mining / analytics work? [170 voters total] Windows XP (113) 66.5% Linux (58) 34.1% MacOS (18) 10.6% Unix other (15) 8.8% Windows Other (12) 7.1% Solaris (11) 6.5% Windows Vista (7) 4.1% GNU Cygwin (6) 3.5% other (1) 0.6%

Note: multiple choices were allowed, and percentages represent the percent of respondents who chose the particular system.

Corrin, OS I use or OS the tools use?
I sit at a computer which is the same one I use to write reports etc. and it is from that computer I issue queries to analyse data but whether those queries are ssh to remote R sessions, SQL or rsubmit, the data or its processing never touches my desktop.

I went with my desktop's OS since that seems to make more difference, though I found out yesterday that Oracle running on a 32 bit windows server cannot access more than 4GB of ram. Obvious when you think about it.

Here are the results of 2005 KDnuggets Poll: Operating System for data mining work