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Posted by dick-richardson on 11-15-2001 04:19 AM:

The "name your OS" thread.

What the hell, the idea was made and I'll run with it. I didn't include any "soon-to-be" options, desires are irrelevent.

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Posted by BobbyMike on 11-15-2001 04:26 AM:

Kinda limited in the choices though. I'm currently running WinMe on this machine and Linux on my other desktop and my laptop (not to mention Qnix on my Audrey). Should I vote for highest total processor speed in a particular OS, or total weight of computers + monitors?

"...desires are irrelevent."

Tell that to a three year old!

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Posted by dampeoples on 11-15-2001 04:36 AM:

quote:
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Should I vote for highest total processor speed in a particular OS, or total weight of computers + monitors?

I think you should vote for the one that crashes the least, can I retract my vote for Windows?

Posted by Yorick on 11-15-2001 04:38 AM:

"name your OS"

I named mine "Horatio"; does that count?

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Posted by homer on 11-15-2001 04:40 AM:

What if you use more than one?

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Posted by jeff318 on 11-15-2001 12:18 PM:

quote:
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I think you should vote for the one that crashes the least, can I retract my vote for Windows?

my winxp is very stable....

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Posted by Keefer Lucas on 11-15-2001 12:47 PM:

XP Patriot

All the paranoia about Microsoft aside, the XP operating system is running rock-solid for me. A staggering improvement in speed and stability for my system.

Posted by imabug on 11-15-2001 02:38 PM:

Is this a name your favourite OS, or name the OS that people make you use most.

As for favourite OS, mine is NeXTSTEP. Haven't encountered anything that comes close to it, for ease of use and application development.

Windoze I only use because other people make me.

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Posted by Arker on 11-15-2001 02:54 PM:

NeXTSTEP is an OS now?!?!

Ark.

Posted by dick-richardson on 11-15-2001 03:29 PM:

Name the OS you use the most. Should've put that at the beginning - can y'all f'give me?

bobbymike, I've tried [telling that to a 3 year old]. I've had more fun having dental work done. I just keep telling myself that I'm the parent.

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Posted by bradhaak on 11-15-2001 04:06 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by imabug
Is this a name your favourite OS, or name the OS that people make you use most.

As for favourite OS, mine is NeXTSTEP. Haven't encountered anything that comes close to it, for ease of use and application development.

Windoze I only use because other people make me.

OSX is derived from NextOS and Cocoa (OSXs native development environment) is NextStep. Give it a try.

Posted by usonian2001 on 11-15-2001 05:14 PM:

Hmm, I have a hard choice between Linux and Windows; in the end I voted Windows since it's the one I'm usually using natively on whatever computer I'm physically sitting at... but I use Linux extensively at work and at home for its rock-solid web/mail/file server capabilities. At work I'm usually logged into one of several Linux boxen either via telnet or X, or directly logged into the Linux virtual machine I have running under Windows NT. Or better yet, telneting to another Linux box while logged into the VM.

At home I'm usually logged into my old Pentium 200/RedHat box which serves as firewall/samba/apache/etc server. I'll be ditching Windows at home just as soon as I can afford a Ti Powerbook. In the meantime I'll suffer with WindowsME and an occaisional session in KDE 2.2 under Mandrake 8, which lives on a separate partition from WinME.

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quote:
Originally posted by BobbyMike
"...desires are irrelevent."

Tell that to a three year old!

Heh, one of many reasons I don't (and won't) have one.

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Posted by Burns on 11-15-2001 05:36 PM:

Um, where's PALM OS???? Believe it or not, I use it the most.

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Posted by dick-richardson on 11-15-2001 05:42 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by Burns
Um, where's PALM OS????

Um, Other.

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Posted by Toby on 11-15-2001 06:10 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by Arker
NeXTSTEP is an OS now?!?!

It wasn't before?

Posted by bradhaak on 11-15-2001 08:15 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by Toby
It wasn't before?

NextStep is (was) an operating environment that ran on a number of different OSs including Windows. In the version that ran on the NEXT boxes, it included the Mach OS.

Posted by imabug on 11-15-2001 08:24 PM:

quote:
Originally posted by Arker
NeXTSTEP is an OS now?!?!

Ark.

Sure, always has been. NeXTStep consisted of a BSD-ish flavour of Unix running a Mach kernel and the DisplayPostScript driven GUI. It was the GUI that rocked though.

But, I digress...

Posted by homer on 11-15-2001 09:42 PM:

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It was the GUI that rocked though.

Are there any sites that go into the NeXT GUI? I'd be interested in seeing what made it so unique...

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Posted by Galley_SimRacer on 11-15-2001 11:48 PM:

Windows XP Pro, BeOS 5 Pro

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Posted by BobbyMike on 11-15-2001 11:52 PM:

I'm going to vote for Linux 'cause I enjoy using it so much more. I only use WinMe 'cause I have to (for now).

D-R, does reminding yourself that you're the parent work for you? It didn't work for me at 2AM this morning when Martin wanted to sing "Shine Jesus, Shine".

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