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05 Sep 2008, 1:57 am

apple osx. it works.


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05 Sep 2008, 9:34 am

Well, it used to be OS/2 but then a neat OS called S.u.S.E. Linux 6.0 came into my life and in version 7.0 surely qualified. I mean: it did not need special drivers (like windows at that time) or week long configuration-marathons (like S.u.S.E. Linux 6.0) to display graphics. That amazed me! I also like Linux in general.


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05 Sep 2008, 10:21 am

The one I'm using now: Windows XP, with SP3. Some flavours of Linux are kind of nice, and I've even found some nice touches in Vista (nothing to do with the interface, though), but overall, I don't think I'll be switching from XP any soon.



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09 Sep 2008, 3:47 pm

I'd say Solaris. It's on my secondary pc - a Gateway I picked up at my town dump. What made me wonder is why someone would throw away a perfectly good PC with Vista on it. The only problem with it was that it needed a new power supply. I'm also thinking about getting a Sun computer as my next PC.



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09 Sep 2008, 4:09 pm

^I've considered trying Solaris. How has your experience been with it?


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09 Sep 2008, 4:28 pm

It was great. It seems to handle java based programs like openoffice better, on windows it's a resource hog. I use StarOffice as a suite, though. I think it's a great OS.



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09 Sep 2008, 7:40 pm

Bullzeye wrote:
It was great. It seems to handle java based programs like openoffice better, on windows it's a resource hog. I use StarOffice as a suite, though. I think it's a great OS.

Little surprise, that Solaris (by Sun Microsystems) would run software made by Sun Microsystems really well. Just wondering if it would be worth it, when I get some spare time, to throw a Solaris partition in there.


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10 Sep 2008, 11:57 am

AmigaOS up to version 3.5.



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10 Sep 2008, 12:16 pm

I loved Windows 2k prof. Never crashed and you could really push it to the limits. Ah, I remember it well.



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10 Sep 2008, 1:23 pm

Yup Mac OS X here too although Win XP SP2 comes a close second.



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10 Sep 2008, 2:56 pm

the tiger osx



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10 Sep 2008, 4:53 pm

Bullzeye wrote:
It was great. It seems to handle java based programs like openoffice better, on windows it's a resource hog. I use StarOffice as a suite, though. I think it's a great OS.

Personally I prefered AIX than solaris when I was CAD monkeying. It was the best thing to run Catia on at the time. Now if only I could try a SG box runnign IRIX or SUSE.



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10 Sep 2008, 5:24 pm

I'm too familiar with computers that don't have OS,
and find OS programming unbearably tedious (like typesetting Gutenburg's bible).

I'm currently using a PC with a small linux and no hard drive for internet access only.

I don't remember ever buying software. I wrote a lot of it though.
Half of it is OS-less and the other half is for DOS.

See what can be done with 1K RAM and no OS

(That's not me though.)



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17 Sep 2008, 6:40 pm

The best operating systems I've ever used are (in order of preference):
Windows XP Professional (Home Edition sucks and is low in security)
Windows NT 4.0 Workstation+Server
Windows 2000 Professional
OS/2 Warp Server Advanced 4 (actually should be "OS/2 Warp Server Advanced 3.0", but the packet says 4 for some reason, but it is better than Warp Connect [haven't tried it yet] because you can install Fixpak 43 on it whereas you can only install Fixpak 40 on Warp Connect)
RedHat Linux 7.2

I wish I had OS/2 Warp 4.52! Maybe I should get eComStation (I like the "OS/2 Warp" name better!)

And since they all have their own little flaws, I'm developing my own OS.

NOTE: I am currently using Windows NT Workstation 4.0, and my laptop uses Windows XP Professional.



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17 Sep 2008, 7:37 pm

AgentCROCODILE wrote:
I wish I had OS/2 Warp 4.52! Maybe I should get eComStation (I like the "OS/2 Warp" name better!)


I have an IBM computer with OS/2 Warp 4.52 that I got when 4.52 was new. Still got the software/restore CD's and documentation too. I'll power it up once in a while and play with it. There's a demo CD available for eComStation (http://www.ecomstation.com/democd/). I have it and it's pretty good. It only runs on LiveCD though.



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24 Jun 2009, 1:50 pm

Orwell wrote:
So what's the best OS you ever used?


All depends on what I'm doing and what hardware

But

for X86:

Multimedia/Video editing: Mac OS X/ Darwin

General Purpose: GNU Slackware Linux/ "OS/2 WARP 4.52"

Beginners (for those who just want something that works): GNU Ubuntu Linux/ Derivatives

Beginners (to learn something): FreeDOS or Debian(what I learned Unix on)

Server OS: FreeBSD/OpenBSD

Gaming OS: Windows 2000 (purely due to support, though Wine has very high compatability if tuned)

Programmers: GNU Slackware Linux/ CentOS Linux


for PPC:

Anything: Mac OSX/ Debian Linux


for Sparc:

Solaris (nuff said)


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