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What is Your Fav OS of all time, Old or New. OS WARS!

- via BootCamp: MS Windows...
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BootCamp is nothing more than a wizard that helps you create a partition and get drivers for your laptop. Other then that Windows runs on your computer just like it does on any other machine with the same hardware. Leopard has nothing to do with it.
 
Tough decision on this one. I would have to say the Amiga OS is my favorite, though. Amiga was way ahead of their competitors. They had features that didn't show up in other OSes until years later.

OS/2 Warp 4 was fun. I remember seeing an install of OS/2 running Windows inside of OS/2. I also liked Solaris and BSD Unix. (Hmm, wonder why I like OSX? :))
 
Probably Leopard and Vista Ultimate. XP Pro a close second on the Windows side.

2k Pro deserves an honorable mention.

Also, Tiger.
 
Jethryn Freyman said:
Leopard.

System 8 ... nostalgia value.
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System 8 was never released, not as a complete product anyway. This was the OS known better under its development name as Copland. You are probably thinking about MacOS 8. Ironically, MacOS 8 probably incorporated fewer Copland (System 8) technologies than System 7.5 did.

barkmonster said:
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2) Mac OS 6

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There was no MacOS 6. It was System 6 or more properly System Software 6. The first Apple OS to carry the Mac OS moniker was MacOS 7.6.
 
I'm not an expert at all, but allthough I've only been using Leopard for little over a week, I have to say that it's the smoothest OS I have ever experienced (coming from Windows 95 - 98 - XP - Vista home premium).
 
OS X 10.4/5 is by far my favorite OS, it's elegant, charming, beautiful and sleek. It's sexy, reliable and simple to use.
 
Computers:
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard
Ubuntu v8.10 Intrepid Ibex
Mobile:
iPhone OS 2.2

Enough to manage my whole tech life!
 
IBM OS/400. w0rd to your mainframe.

Ok, maybe not. I'd love to throw my AS/400 out the window. Today.
 
MisterMe said:
There was no MacOS 6. It was System 6 or more properly System Software 6. The first Apple OS to carry the Mac OS moniker was MacOS 7.6.
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Technically, I believe you're wrong. I have a box with System 7 on it, and there's a nice little logo right on the front that says "Mac OS 7", and if I recall correctly (I may not) that same logo is present when starting my old PowerMac 6100/66. I believe it was 7.0, but I'll have to dig it out of the closet :)
 
Leopard is definitely my favorite. My second fav is HP-UX followed by anything Windows (XP, 2000, NT, DOS)

I had the pleasure of using HP-UX before I used Windows. I love the dock! See the six buttons in the middle of the dock? That's what Apple now calls Spaces. This picture is probably 20+ years old:
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UNIX was unix when linux was just an itch in Torvald's pants.
:D
After HP-UX the first Windows I used was NT 3.51 which looked like Win 3.1 but it was 32 bit. NT actually had networking built in whereas 3.1, I think, had to use third party software do anything else besides a simple workgroup.
 
AmigaOS

I too have a soft spot for AmigaOS/Workbench. Version 1.2/1.3 was great at the time and version 2.0 was just as stylish as the Amiga 3000 I ran it on. :)
 
Micro computer operating systems that I've used to the best of my memory:
Atari ??? (home)
Commodore BASI C (home)
DOS on Apple (high school)
DOS on PC (high school)
Mac OS 6 (home, college)
Mac OS 7 (home, college)
DOS/Win 3.1 (work)
Win 95 (work)
Win 98 (home)
Red Hat Linux 5 (home)
Win NT (work)
Win XP (work, home)
Mac OS X Tiger (home)
Win Vista (home)

What I currently have:
Win XP (work: IBM ThinkPad)
Win XP (home: clone PC. After getting the Compaq, I wanted to put Ubuntu on her, but her hardware is starting to fail. Just decommissioned.)
Mac OS X Tiger (home: iBook G4)
Win Vista (home: Compaq Presario)

Favorites:
Atari, Commodore, DOS, and Mac Classic OSes still give me mixed but fond memories, although in retrospect they were cheesy and on zero power machines. The Mac bomb icon still gives me the horrors.

Anything Win has given me the most stress.

Tiger on my iBook is my all time favorite. It's fast, intuitive, and allows me to punish my machine.

I only bought the Comapaq with Vista for some games that don't run on Mac Power PC. I look forward to my next MacBook with Snow Leopard and iPod Touch with OS 3.0.
 
elppa said:
My Picks (from what I have used):
Mac OS X 10.1 had the cleanest implementation of the Aqua UI, there were no metal windows, unified toolbars, non-standard toolbar buttons in Mail, purple scroll bars, black sidebars and a whole lot of other inconsistencies Apple has introduced. It was also the first stable version of OS X, the first to run Microsoft Office and Photoshop. It wasn't done, but it was the first OS X version to be good enough to use day-to-day and that was significant. And the contrast with what we had been using was stark. Aqua looked lovely.
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I agree completely. 10.1 is definitely my favorite OS... it was Aqua at its pinnacle and truest representation, before all of the brushed metal appeared (which was like a strung out transition to Leopard's grey look, which is fine now that it's a little more unified). I remember being awed by it when I was used to 9.2.2...
 
1. Tiger (like leopard better but for its time tiger was better), and 2. mac os 7, 3 leopard (my current fav but not as good for its time) 4. windows 7 then 5. reactos, 6. ubuntu
 
C/PM

It was my first exposure to a command line based operating system when previously, I had to shove a cartridge into a box under the TV.

After that, my parents bought me a BBC micro and I spent hours typing in programs from listings in magazines only to be present by "checksum error" when I tried to run it.

Days of intellectual bliss before it all went point-and-click.
 
PeteB said:
C/PM

It was my first exposure to a command line based operating system when previously, I had to shove a cartridge into a box under the TV.

After that, my parents bought me a BBC micro and I spent hours typing in programs from listings in magazines only to be present by "checksum error" when I tried to run it.

Days of intellectual bliss before it all went point-and-click.
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At least spell it right: CP/M

I used it on my Apple ][ Plus with the Microsoft Z-80 SoftCard.

S-
 
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