Posted on 01/22/2010 8:39:10 AM PST by ShadowAce
Never, ever will I have another Windows product! I don’t care if they hand out gold bullion with it.
-shrugs- Your choice, it’s a free country (at least for now). I object more to MS’s predatory policies. But that’s just me.
The two that impress me are KolibriOS, because I miss the amazingly tight and fast old-time programs written in assembly, and Minix because of its extremely robust pure microkernel architecture.
BeOS/Haiku
AmigaOS/AROS
Plan 9
FreeDOS
Minix
I too am intrigued by KolibriOS. Assembler coded; man that must scream on a modern processor. But I have no machines with working floppies. Will it boot off a 5 in 1 card reader (SD)? Or USB thumb drive?
“TI-99/4A
Now THAT was a real computer.”
In 1985 a friend and I wrote a fully functioning football statistics system in BASIC for the TI-99. We used it to provide real-time statistics for the radio broadcast of the local high school football games. Adapted it the next year to do basketball as well.
Those were the grand old days of personal computing. I would kill to have a copy of that code today.
Not sure, but I think so. I once installed it into a 256MB VM and it ran very well.
Hey, good one!
Oh i have. Ubuntu is the only one I have seen I deem pretty enough for the normal ID10T user to use
Because in your view what defines a "winner" or "loser" is the OS they choose to use on their computer?
Not successful happy healthy children, material wealth, job success and/or satisfaction, one's relationship with God or even how articulate you can be on a political board? No, with you its... the OS one runs on their computer.
How interesting it must be to be around you.
You should check out Mint. It’s the “full” version of Ubuntu Linux. My son installed it himself on one of our netbooks. It’s fully functional, unlike Ubuntu itself.
Another great OS is PCLinuxOS. I love it. Most likely one of these two will do all you need for a computer.
They left out FreeVMS, which of the alternative Open Source OSes I've heard of, I'd be mostly likely to give a try if I were really, really bored.
KolibriOS just sounds insane. Writing an OS in assembly language for a class project is rather fun (mine was in HP1000 assembly), but has rather limited application. Kind of like something that is fun to say you did, but know you will never do again.
When it comes down to it, I'm a Unix guy, heart, body and soul. I've run Unix at home for over a quarter century. It has aged extraordinarily well. I'm not looking for a replacement.
Microsoft Windows(tm) is eventually going to wither on the vine. Closed systems are like so mid 20th century. I would expect that there will not be another major system done beyond Unix (=Linux/BSD/Darwin) and something Windows (=Microsoft/ReactOS). The cleaner design of Unix means it will continue to age well. The clear separation of layers means you can pretty much do anything you want to with it. I recommend the Vista haters take a hard look at ReactOS. That is your future.
(I'm rooting for the ReactOS guys to beat Microsoft. Once that happens, the idiots who program computer games will have no choice but to make their games run on Open Source systems. Of course, profitable game companies like Blizzard already understand that).
If you really, really like the Microsoft Windows interface, then take a look at ReactOS.
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Microkernels lost, just like non-stack based architectures lost, just like RISC lost. Get over it.
The skills of compiler writers have exceeded those of assembly language programmers for over half a century. Assembly language programming is even harder to hand optimize on modern processors.
They lost because of performance. That is being addressed, and modern computers have quite a bit of performance to be able to handle them.
BTW, RISC didn't really lose. The modern Intel Core chip is essentially a RISC underneath with an x86 decoder up front.
My everyday machine is this XP unit. However, I just upgraded my Linux computer to Linux Mint. I would highly recommend Linux Mint to anybody, new or experienced Linux users. The interface is extremely “Windows-like” and very easy to use.
They lost because of performance. That is being addressed, and modern computers have quite a bit of performance to be able to handle them.
Face up to the facts. Andy was wrong, Linus was right.
Or, to paraphrase Mr. Spock, Microkernels are like a beautiful rose that smells ... bad.
I think OO is a fad that will eventually go away for similar reasons. It's silly to throw away performance for non-human readable code - you pretty much need an IDE for OO programming. FP FTW!
I also like ReactOS a little more work and it will be a good OS. I am running a tri boot right now Fedora 12, Suse 64 and Suse Edu, I think I am going to go with the Suse Edu everything anyone could need is already on the dvd and it works on my computer. Try them all it’s free
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