Favorite OS

[MeLkOr]

What is your favorite OS?

[Tim]

Is it too much to ask for a few more choices? This is an OS development board, after all, so you'd expect us to be more broad-minded than the average user where operating systems are concerned.

Speaking as a user, my favourite OS is BeOS.

[Tux]

Hmm, I don't have a favorite.

Windows is errornous, made by liars, and costly.

Linux has so many files, kernel is huge, so many versions.

Mac is used in schools too much, crappy name, and too friendly.

QNX is hard to maintain. (Trust me, it is)

I hate how they all setup GUIs.
They make window programming harder.
Why not OOP like:

//Editted C compiler
form main;
main.caption="THIS IS A REAL WINDOW!";
main.id=0;

button pissoff;
pissoff.owner=main.id;
pissoff.x=0;
...
form.load(X,Y,Z);

But noooo, bastards have to make it all harder!

I am sticking with JesusOS.

[Tim]

Windows is errornous, made by liars, and costly.

That's a new one! Are you accusing all Microsoft employees of lying?

Mac is used in schools too much, crappy name, and too friendly.

Eh? These are all good points, not bad ones...

I hate how they all setup GUIs.
They make window programming harder.
Why not OOP like:

Your example looks like Visual Basic without the 'visual' part. You could program VB like this, but people find it easier to use the form designer to set up forms, buttons, etc.

[MeLkOr]

lol! You people are funny. Sorry about not giving many choices but I don't know any other OS's.
-MeLkOr

[Tux]

I know VB, but it ain't the std. It is slow and needs lib. Just another way for micro$oft to make money. I'll be happy with Windows if Bill Gates guarenties, or however you spell it, that the next Windows will be stable. That way, if he is wrong. We can all sue him. They are all lies. I'll be happy on the day he croaks. (Not to be taken as death threat BTW)

[RuneOfFire]

Tux, Windows IS stable... it's crappy drivers that crash it by running their buggy code in ring 0. No OS is without bugs.
Microsoft should concentrate more on quality than deadlines, though.

[distantvoices]

HA!

I've learned programming on a computer which had only a basic interpreter and a small operating environment in ROM: the C64. and even the C64 operating environment could be considered a kind of OS. and with some asm-tricks you also could do a kind of multitasking with this cute little box.

My other favourite is the mac line. I just like the design of the mac boxes and the design of their operating system: something a granny could use. And with the new G5 in mind, maybe I'll spend some money one day and get such a box.

@tux: Please, don't flame around without proof. As another user here has stated, it is not windows itself that craps out but drivers full of bugs which go crazy in ring 0. Windows is a good os. I don't need to like the marketing and other strategies of Microsoft, but their os is not to be blamed for that.

[Tim]

One more time: Windows is stable. I've seen about 5 Windows 2000 blue screens in the last 3 years, and I don't think I've ever seen a blue screen on Windows XP. And look at Microsoft's heavy investment in .NET, the main purpose of which is to write provably secure code.

[Tux]

Windows is errornous, made by liars, and costly.

Hmm, stable you say?
Why does a program which asks for 512 MB file to load on a 256 MB ram pc not stop loading? IT LOADS ALL THE WAY ON XP AND FREEZES AT POINT 256 MB! To fix it, you have to reboot. CTRL-ALT-DEL don't work here bud. The kernel is too busy trying to find more space. I can give you the proggie and tell me after you run it that it is stable. Liars? Check out the court info on explorer, they lied. It can be easily separated. They stated it was built into the system. Also, your explorer keeps double copies of temp, no punk. This is a real log. Why do you think auto complete has all the sites still after you delete all your temp files?
To delete the actual logs, you have to use DOS and co.
Seeing is not believing, it lies when it says it clears all your history. Also, regestering XP lately? They lie about not sending your info. Well, they do.

[Therx]

I've always used windows. I've used 3.11, 95, 98, ME, XP. The only one of those which crashes regularly is ME and that's even when its a fresh install. I can't remember any big problem with 3.11 nor 95. This computer is 98 and the only reason it occaisionally crashes is because I've filled it to the brim with software. I've never seen XP crash (don't have it but used it several times). The reason I don't use it is because I find the 98 interface easier to use.

What's come over me, I'm supporting M$

Pete

[Tux]

"There is no impenetrable fortress"
Same goes for OSes.
If you say an OS is stable, you are a liar.
There is no such thing. All you can say, the OS is stable as much the PC technology lets it to be.
To make a stable OS, you need to remake the pc.

About the RPC worm, I think the hacker's did ya all a favor.

[Tux]

Try running the proggie I have to crash it big time. You need a big file though. XP crashed so badly that it corrupted the user info because it froze when loading the file. It ain't a virus BTW.

[distantvoices]

tux, what do you expect when loading 512 mb of anything, when you actually only have 256 mb available. The kernel *has* to swap like devil to accomplish this. when you don't give it a chance, how shold it then do it? He? This argument of you is not worth of being considered any further, because it lacks realistic premises and concludes.

regarding the logs... imagine an enterprise. you have several employees. one of them uses to bomb the others and the servers, and afterwards clears all the logs he can find. Oh, the sysadmin is *glad* to know about the hidden log files. I don't do anything wrong and evil with my computer so I don't care about log files. and at home: no chance for anybody to get them, cuz I have my local network behind a tight firewall.

that's all about it, and be so kind and stop this flaming. This board is not the right place for flamewars.

[Tux]

K, I'll run the program for 4 hours. Let's see if you are right. BTW, the kernel shouldn't freze up more when trying to end a task.