What's the best OS?

[Spicedaddy]

You separated Mac OS9 and OSX, yet you put XP in the same category as 95??

 

[CraigRT]

Windows 2000 professional/server.

to put 9x in there is absolutely ridiculous... they are NOT the same beast.

 

[Anubis]

Win 2000 or some version of Linux

 

[Jugernot]

You seperated out Mac OS 9 and X, but not Win9x and Win2k? What's up with that?

 

[aphex]

For all practical purposes, they are the same

No, they are really not.

 

[everman]

It kinda depends on what you need to do.

 

[sash1]

Linux:

SuSe
Gentoo
Debian

In that order!

~Aunix

 

[Chiboy]

Longhorn

 

[newbiepcuser]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
...for serious work FreeBSD...

unless you're one of the 99% of people who use thier computers at work, and run mostly apps that are only avaialable on Windows and MacOS.

Yeah, what is considered serious work for you? I know very few companies that use FreeBSD OS as their enterprise OS, come to think of it I can't name one.

 

[yoda291]

Originally posted by: newbiepcuser

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
...for serious work FreeBSD...

unless you're one of the 99% of people who use thier computers at work, and run mostly apps that are only avaialable on Windows and MacOS.

Yeah, what is considered serious work for you? I know very few companies that use FreeBSD OS as their enterprise OS, come to think of it I can't name one.

I agree, I've been all over and I can think of 2 places total that use freeBSD as their OS of choice. Both are very small shops too.

 

[FoBoT]

Originally posted by: everman
It kinda depends on what you need to do.

oh great, adding some logic to the whole thing, you are such a radical

 

[SnapIT]

Originally posted by: dejitaru
Naturally, I couldn't include every operating system.

I didn't include specific Linux distros or seperate Win ME and 2000 as I felt it to be impertinent. For all practical purposes, they are the same.

Click where it says "reply" and explain yourself.

And you didn't include xBSD either... but i will vote "unix" as xBSD is unix based...

 

[compudog]

I voted for the Windows OS mix, though they should be split up. Windows 2000, XP have great software compatability and broad markey acceptance. When Linux flavors have the same market penetration that MS has, then I'll go with Linux.

 

[SnapIT]

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
...for serious work FreeBSD...

unless you're one of the 99% of people who use thier computers at work, and run mostly apps that are only avaialable on Windows and MacOS.

Well, you got office packs, database software and the whole heep running on FreeBSD, what do you miss, IE?

Openoffice can handle the same files that your weeny MacOS can, and it will not even crash all the time...

Too bad at half the cost you can run cheap hardware with more stability than apple systems with their CS software can...

I am going to buy a powerbook soon, because i like it, it will be running FreeBSD...

 

[ndee]

Some might like Windows XP but not Windows 95 so that's actually a pretty stupid poll.

 

[theNEOone]

Originally posted by: ndee
Some might like Windows XP but not Windows 95 so that's actually a pretty stupid poll.

yah. change it and then i'll vote

 

[Skyclad1uhm1]

Originally posted by: newbiepcuser

Originally posted by: notfred

Originally posted by: Skyclad1uhm1
...for serious work FreeBSD...

unless you're one of the 99% of people who use thier computers at work, and run mostly apps that are only avaialable on Windows and MacOS.

Yeah, what is considered serious work for you? I know very few companies that use FreeBSD OS as their enterprise OS, come to think of it I can't name one.

Shrug, I'm forced to use Microsoft OSes at work too for a lot of things, but for the firewall and webserver I get to choose myself. May well be implementing a FreeBSD machine as backup domain controller too, although I may try out SuSe Enterprise Edition (or whatever it's called) for that.

 

[thirtythree]

I prefer Win2k .. nice and stable. I haven't used a large variety of OSes though so who knows.

 

[Imaginer]

Now why would one in a best OS poll put WinME and Win2000 and XP in the same option????

 

[Zim Hosein]

Originally posted by: Imaginer
Now why would one in a best OS poll put WinME and Win2000 and XP in the same option????

I still have no idea Imaginer

 

[Cerb]

None, because you lumped the Win9x bunch in with the WinNT ones.
Win95...eh
Win95B...eh
WinNT4 SP3...Wow, I could run Quake2 for hours (or until my voodoo2 overheated )!
Windows 2000...It's NT...but w/o having to mess with pnpisa.
Windows XP...No more WindowsBlinds
Mandrake, RH and Knoppix...neato.

 

[Sketcher]

Originally posted by: dejitaru
Naturally, I couldn't include every operating system.

I didn't include specific Linux distros or seperate Win ME and 2000 as I felt it to be impertinent. For all practical purposes, they are the same.

Click where it says "reply" and explain yourself.

There's nothing practical about lumping Win 9x & NT Kernel OS's. And why the duplicity in separating MAC OS's regarding not doing so w/Win OS's?

You might as well have asked which is better, MS, Apple, Nix etc... for all practical purposes that is. (which, if you don't know is a "what are you wanting to accomplish and how do you prefer to get it done" discussion.)

 

[JetsFanatic]

come to the dark side

MAC OS X rulez!!!!!