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which operating system you like most....
Edvard:
FreeDOS: Why last? Well, I never actually used it besides setting it up on a couple computers at school, but seems like a nice clone.
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Actually, FreeDOS is nice for playing old dos games, such as they are...
I've found that most *good* dos games play in dosbox like a un-accelerated 386 and the "protected-mode" dos games I've run into don't run at all.
40hz:
FreeDOS: Why last? Well, I never actually used it besides setting it up on a couple computers at school, but seems like a nice clone.
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Actually, FreeDOS is nice for playing old dos games, such as they are...
I've found that most *good* dos games play in dosbox like a un-accelerated 386 and the "protected-mode" dos games I've run into don't run at all.
-Edvard (October 13, 2008, 03:07 PM)
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That's why I kept my old Northgate 386-20 and NEC MultiSync 15" Monitor. Ultima III Exodus and Leisure Suit Larry just don't look right in emulation.
Besides, it a real laugh watching some techno-snob Half-Life 2 fanboy (with a tricked-out $4K gaming rig) admit that "These old games are awesome!"
Sometimes P.O.S. can also be read as: Perfectly Obvious Solution
Deozaan:
Besides, it a real laugh watching some techno-snob Half-Life 2 fanboy (with a tricked-out $4K gaming rig) admit that "These old games are awesome!"
-40hz (October 13, 2008, 05:24 PM)
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Anyone spending $4k on a personal computer these days is compensating for something.
iphigenie:
I don't think I love an OS anymore - I think you only love and OS early on, the first few times you encounter a good OS that does things in a way you find better/clever...
So my Operating System loves were...
SunOS/Solaris, with the CDE - used it daily for 4 years and got to love some of its tools, and it defined what I expected of a basic OS and Shell. CDE definded things for a lot of people. I still think xrn is the way a newsreader ought to work. I also think fondly of xpipeman which was handy during classes... Bought an old Sparc 20 and Solaris 7 in 2002 out of nostalgia :D
Silicon Graphics - showed me what a multimedia OS ought to be like. Never had it, barely used it, wanted it sooo badly. Stupidly expensive even at student specials...
OS/2 Warp - the one OS I loved enough to be an activist for. Seriously activist, running workshops and promotions days and going to Zurich for the launch etc. (got a free copy of the OS for that, so turned out well worth it). Joined the developer connection even though it cost a LOT at the time and it was purely a hobby. Ahead of its time and badly let down by IBM. But warm fuzzy feelings when thinking of this piece of software (equaled only by the warm fuzzy feelings I feel towards Turbo Pascal, my first IDE)
In the current day I can pretty much happily work with any OS, and thanks to open source I can find certain staples on all the platforms.
Desktop:
Windows - my base OS simply because of habit - I have apps and tools to make it work fine for me
Mac - it actually is the winning desktop platform in my industry - last week at FOWA was 75-80% macs! - and has some killer apps, but I cannot justify the cost both of hardware but mostly of having to buy the software all over again. I am also put off by some of the lock in the OS comes with.
Linux - have used it as a desktop several times in the past, and what happens is always that my favorite distribution gets bought or falls behind. Also the lack of games and apps have put me off in the past. Now I play with slackware whenever there is a new version, and try some others occasionally. I tend to not be keen on the default apps which are popular so it is a lot of work to get everything swapped around
Server:
FreeBSD - my platform of choice when i need control, performance and security
Linux - can work with any flavors, although I am not impressed with the redhat/fedora branch on average, have had more mysterious problems with servers using those than any other, *including* windows servers!
Windows Server - nothing wrong with it except cost, really
Mac Server - too expensive but makes some awesome servers
Open Solaris - both for nostalgia's sake but because it comes with some pretty interesting clustering/replication tools in the package, got the latest version and plan to try it this month again.
40hz:
The problem is now that nobody can or will make a decent modern OS.
-Renegade (October 08, 2008, 01:35 PM)
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Yes. Especially now that everybody knows exactly how to do that - and agrees on what constitutes such a "decent modern OS."
I don't think there's anything even close to universal consensus on that topic. ;)
The open source guys couldn't manage it if they tried because they're all sucking the Linux Penguin tit and ranting about how good it is.
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Now there's an image I won't be getting out of my mind anytime soon. ;D Thanks, I guess... (yuck!)
A fully object oriented OS is what we need, and want, but the market just won't allow it now.
An OO OS would advance computing by leagues. But who's going to pay to develop it?
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Didn't they try to do that already with Smalltalk- which was (arguably) a rather nice little operating system that most people mistook for a programming language? (Many loved it. Very few used it.) ;D
Objects are only one approach to dealing with programming complexity. They're not the only one. And while the object paradigm has proven useful, it has only resulted in improvements to our methodolgies for software development. It has not produced the world-changing, indisputable, all encompassing benefits that were originally claimed for it. It just turned out to be a better way of doing things. There is nothing in the object-oriented methodology that has conclusively proven it to be the best methodology for all classes of applications.
At least as far as I've seen. ;)
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