[Swordmaker]

Something for everyone in this face off... LINUX vs. OSX vs. Windows Vista vs. Windows XP... PING!

Linux, OSX, Vista, XP Ping!

If you want on or off the Mac Ping List, Freepmail me.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

Wow.

Four OS reviewed. Zero FUD.

[roamer_1]

Funny how the XP guy spent a good portion (not to mention the first portion) of his article hacking on Vista.

LOL!

My favs (in order): DOS/Win98, Ubuntu Linux, Win2k/WinXP, WinVista. I am looking forward to my first Mac box, now that it is BSD, hoping that I can get to a bash console... If I can, I imagine it will also beat my preference for WinXP and Vista...

Doubt it will ever beat DOS/Win98 or *nix with me tho...

[MarkL]

Where are TRS-DOS, MPM, and BeOS?

Mark

[Westbrook]

What’s with the picture of Mookie Al Sadr in the Vista screenshot?

Putting a picture of that swine on your screenshot is not a good way to promote your fave OS.

Unless, of course, there’s a bullseye on it.

[antiRepublicrat]

The Vista one is so easy to tear apart it’s almost sad.

[Mr. Jeeves]

The Windows guys sound really grumpy. It’s like they know their day is over. ;)

[Gideon7]

All you need is

C>_

Back then we didn't need any fancy graphical user interfaces. We used EDIT.COM and we liked it.

Yer all a bunch of spoiled wimps.

[ShadowAce]

[Golden Eagle]

You put Linux at the top? Then posted some terrorist picture in the Vista sample. Don’t tell me...they got to you, too?

[aruanan]

Yet it’s Mac OS that can run them all.

[TiberiusClaudius]

About two weeks ago I upgraded to Vista on my main development box and I really like it.

I'm a pretty devoted *nix guy and C/C++ programmer. And to be fair, I haven't messed around w/ OS X much recentely, and run pretty scaled-back versions of Linux for server-side stuff.

I really like Vista.

I might spin up a virtual machine and try Ubuntu...

[TChris]

I love the typical FUD about Windows crashes, DLL hell and registry disasters.

It's all B.S.

I've been a Windows network administrator and desktop support analyst for over 10 years, and since Windows 2000 I have NEVER seen a Blue Screen that resulted from anything other than a hardware failure. No O/S can keep running when the hardware dies.

I haven't seen DLL version issues for years. None at all since Windows 2000.

The only registry messes I have ever encountered have been the result of 1) my own registry hacking gone awry, not Windows' fault, or 2) a crappy application installer/uninstaller, again, not Windows' fault.

Text-based configuration files are terrific, until you have some complicated, hierarchical information to manage. The tree structure of the Windows Registry makes such information logical and organized in its presentation. In a flat text file, it can be pretty hairy to make sure you have it all straight.

I have absolutely nothing against any of the other OSes, and am (slowly) learning more about the *nix world. The others have a lot to offer, and have some advantages over Windows. But the worn out FUD about Windows crashes, DLL hell and the Registry is just not accurate.

Those criticisms were pretty stinging to Windows... ten years ago.

[red state girl]

I use Linux Debian and Wine to run Windows apps.