What do you consider to be the finest operating system to be released so far?

Question

Don't just say Windows, MAC or Linux be specific as to which release.

Answer 1

Windows 3.1. The last big one before Windows 95 screwed everything up.

Answer 2

The best experience I've had with an operating system was when I had an account on Cyberspace.org's Sun Sparc machine running Solaris. I had to drop it after they switched to a better machine running FreeBSD, but the switch wasn't why.



The best operating system is the operating system which best meets your needs, of course. I'm sorry I can't remember which version of Solaris they were running at the time (and my attempts at playing with OpenSolaris at home have been VERY unsatisfying). But where I was at that point in my life, that account was more helpful than any OS has been before or since.



EDIT: I just read Weinter (FreeBSD 7)'s response. Wow. I have and occasionally use (I'm thinking about it now) a Debian Etch HD for my Gentoo laptop. Normally I use Debian Lenny/Sid on this machine. Obviously Etch no longer meets my normal needs.



That's a slap at both Ubuntu and Slackware (sometimes called vanilla linux because it's as close to a precompiled linux-from-scratch as you can get). Obviously my feeling is that that both are sometimes considered mainstream distros is an example of Linux's strength. And someone should tell him he's full of it.



EDIT2: To Weinter (FreeBSD 7): If you mean is Hurd ready for normal use, that is, is it as flexible and well-developed a kernel as the BSD kernel, or Linux, or even Mach in Apple's machines , no. However if you have spare disk space you can download a Debian Hurd distro and see what you can do with it. The Debian website tells you where to go. I'm sure the FSF would love you for it. For everyone else: the Debian Hurd distro is the same as Debian Linux, except it has a different kernel.



http://www.superunprivileged.org/hurd/live-cd/

Answer 3

opensuse 11.0, I know its not been released, but it will bring linux to the level of mac os x leopard.



Some people at distrowatch.com, I think some of the linux specialists have called it the most advnaced linux os ever.



OpenSUSE 11.0, one of the most technologically advanced distribution releases the Linux world has ever seen (Ladislav of DistroWatch) (And the most beautiful OS you have ever seen, I might add).



What about u linux ubuntu geek, whats your favorite OS? :)



You can't ever expect a bsd user to think of linux as the best cause technically bsd is superior to linux.



I know Solaris is as close as u can get to unix but lets face it, its GUI and hardware support sucks horribly and I am never going to use it anyway.



After opensuse 11.0, my favorite is Mac OS X leopard, then Tiger, then opensuse 10.3 and then to some extent windows vista.



Edit:



I never really like windows 98, though it was ok for its time.



I remember if I had a few apps open then something froze and the blue screen would appear and force u to reboot, I hated that. I actually like windows's operating systems using the nt kernel like windows 2000 pro, now that was stable, xp and vista r not as stable as 2000 but they r alright as well.

Answer 4

Mine is definately Mac OS X Leopard, it is so much better than any windows model, I find windows impossible and macs amazing... I also find that Windows are genrally a lot slower and that macs have generally good virsus protection ( have never had a virus on the mac before) Also I find that windows models can be a lot more complicated, and include applications that a mac included a few years before

Answer 5

FreeBSD 7

Solaris 10

Debian/GNU Linux Etch

Tried OpenSolaris looks disturbingly similar to Debian

No coincidence Ian Murdock was in charged

Prefer Solaris with CDE

Anyway just joking always gd friends with UNIX/Linux users except MAC freakish Cult

Btw anybody tried HURD just wan to know is it good for normal usage?

Answer 6

Windows Vista Home Premium

Answer 7

Windows Vista followed by Windows Me

Answer 8

Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard, then 10.4 Tiger, then every other operating system, then Windows Vista.

Answer 9

Mac OSX 10.5



It gets no viruses. Has some very cool Programs pre-installed, unlike PC where you have to buy EVERYTHING extra u want and it is rather pricey also. Macs are just better.

Answer 10

lot of review say that mas os leopard is the greatest system ever but i personally like windows so i have to go with vista. i am hoping for windows 7 to come out soon

Answer 11

there are various variations of vista out to isntall (I also have a company version which you would be able to setting up striaght after formatting)... and while you're into networking desktops, vista is surprising because of the fact it merely works (xp takes some messing around) yet xp and vista the two have their united statesand downs... yet a pre-loaded computer with vista could in concept run greater ideal on vista... yet i took a friends computer pre-loaded with vista top rate x64 and loaded merely maximum dazzling x32 sp1.... the overall performance he has have been given out of it incredibly is a lot greater ideal than that of his production unit vista. individually... i say vista :-)

Answer 12

Windows XP home media center edition baby!

Answer 13

Windows XP is a living legend (even with all the bugs included)...

Answer 14

Slax

Answer 15

windows xp/vista==supports many games, apps, used by many business and corporations

mac==movie editing, fast to boot

linux==virus free

Answer 16

DOS.

Even though it was dead,it is a real and earliest operating system.