OSs & problems...

**MrBert** · October 25th, 2002, 01:35 AM

I am a big fan of Mac Os X and BEOS

**Chuck56** · October 25th, 2002, 02:35 AM

MrBert. How does OSX do concerning stability? I've convinced myself to jump from the M$ bandwagon in the next year or so.

BeOS, I guess has gone to OS heaven, unless somebody revives it.

**chefer** · October 25th, 2002, 02:56 AM

My favorites are as is follows :

1. FreeBSD - now don't get me wrong, getting this installed and configured can be time consuming to the newbie, but once it's there, it's rock solid stable. The only times I have issues with this any longer are when I'm screwing around with source that I probably shouldn't be (but if we don't go there, how are we to learn?) It's also free.

2. Mac OS X - based on the darwin system. This *nix variant has proven itself to be quite powerful, relatively easy to configure, and quite solid in the stability. The only downside that I've really seen to this is the cost to get yourself OS X. Mac systems are just far too costly for the most part.

Many of the others out there are left to interpretation. MS systems that seem to be relatively stable are minimal and I think really limited to Windows 2000. The others windows OS's are good on a base install (well, if you don't have to modify them after the fact they are any how, but then again, who wants to keep that thing under glass, we want to use it all the time)
Most of the *nix distros are the same way it seems.
Any how, just my $0.02

Regards.

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Please note : my blanket statement are not meant to be all encompassing. They are just generic based on my experiences. I know that there are exceptions and I just didn't care to delve to deeply into it at this point.
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**4MidgetHitmen** · October 25th, 2002, 04:38 AM

I have been using XP Pro for a while now... A year or so and I haven't had any of the problems normally associated with Windows... It has been farily stable and does a good job for me... the draw back is that if you upgrade to many things you have to re-activate the damn thing

**Chuck56** · October 25th, 2002, 06:18 AM

I have no criticism yet of xp home. Mine was an upgrade version and I've done a few things, such as remove the media player and disabled windows update and the messenger. I don't need Bill telling me what I want to update. The messenger (not msn, which I also got rid of) is another thing and I'm not sure what it's purpose was. I didn't like it so turned it off. XP home has yet to crash or freeze on me. My wife's xp pro is solid and stable.

I do have a correction. I mentioned slack linux on the old box through which we're networked. It has never crashed. I, on the other hand, have managed to crash it a few times. I have this crazed need to play with it when the wife isn't online.

***r3b00+*** · October 25th, 2002, 09:03 AM

Well for me personally, it was W2K, very stable windows OS!
But since jumping on the Linux bandwagon, i really dont want to go back to windo$e, except for here at work, were ive no choice.

I use RedHat 7.3 and have yet to have a problem with it (v. good for newbies also), you can also run a variety of windo$e proggies on it and the way things are going, Linux is the OS of the future!

r3b00+

**RejectKnowledge** · October 25th, 2002, 11:18 AM

Well, here's my two cents..

I'm running four different OSes on my machine. WinME, Win2k, WinXP Pro and Red Hat 7.3.

Now, WinME has GOT to be the absolute WORST version of Windows ever released. Yes, a lot of people have had problems with it, and a lot of people using it will have more problems to come. Instead of WinME, I would suggest you use Win98 SE.

Win2k is probably Windows' most stable operating system. I personally recommend it if you have a good enough machine. The Windows2000 Professional is a good choice for a stand-alone machine. It's reliable, and has decent support for multimedia too.

WinXP Pro, I've had a slight few problems with, but thats because of my own messing and tinkering around. It's a pretty good operating system. True, flaws have been popping up left and right, because it's bein scrutinzed to closely, but all in all, it's a fun operating system. but M$ Operating Systems are known to be resource hogs, and WinXP is no different. Don't bother installing this OS unless you've got a a bare minimum of 128 MB of ram. And that, I repeat is a BARE minimum. I'm running it with 384 MB of RAM. On a 128 MB, it was annoying. And ofcourse you'll have to deal with all the activation crap too. Another problem with it is that most of your old softwares will need to replaced by newer more current versions. Luckily, the installaion CD has an option that lets you check which programs might not work with WinXP, so there no need to panic.

Red Hat 7.3 on the other hand is a sweet OS. I would recommend it for any newbie wishing to delve into Linux. RH 8.0 is out, but I haven't been able to get my hands on it yet, so I can't say. But this is a good stable operating system folks. Fun to use, easy to install with anaconda ( The installation program. If I'm wrong, please correct me, though. ). it'll lead you through the partitioning, the detection of your mouse, keyboard, network card, display card etc. If you're looking for a good linux distro to start off with, I'd day try this one.

There we go.
Cheers.

**Cemetric** · October 25th, 2002, 11:42 AM

I have to concur with r3boo+

Although I'm now using RedHat 8.0 with latest kernel ... it is a very stable OS ...after years of using W$ and M$ I jumped on the Linuxwagon and I've been using it ever since the 6.x release... back then it was a bit difficult to install (drivers) but now ...even a rookie can install linux on a machine.

As for windows I would recommend win2000pro , since I use it at my work and it doesn't crash to often.

Also the freeBSD and openBSD releases are very stable after you get them to run

Also .. with just a floppy you can setup a router/firewall on an old pc wich os do you think they use for this...right .. Linux or a BSD release .. cannot see M$ do this (or am I wrong?)

For you to deside

Gr33tz,
Cemetric

***Spyder32*** · October 25th, 2002, 12:09 PM

My suggestion to you would be for Windows, Win2000. As for Linux, Linux Redhat. Both work extraordinarily well for me and have done a great job in their purposes. I used to be partial to WinMe, but that's before I discovered SuSe, Mandrake, and Redhat.

**El Diablo** · October 25th, 2002, 06:57 PM

mmmm BSD or VMS. Both of which have had very little problems that I have had to deal with.

Almost all of the MS products have been nothing but one big patch fest after another.

Linux is usually pretty good, but that is dependant on the distro you are using.

El Diablo

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