Poll: Best OS (1 Viewer)

[Winston]

uno as being computer savvy i have yet to use Linux in my total life...
perhaps i have no idea how to use it, and duno wat flavour to choose as there are so many bias opinions, some say red hat some say debian

gosh..

i remember back then i talked to some guy who just deluded me cause i was new to computing, he said this linux OS im using has a built in hacking tool, im like eh? serious lol

ahh gullible gullible

but i still duno as i havent used it before

 

[Huy]

Originally posted by Winston
uno as being computer savvy i have yet to use Linux in my total life...

Never???

Not even Mandrake?
It's really a piece of cake,

but I prefer Windows because I've grown up with it.
(I have grown up around Macs, but the older PowerMacs and system 8/9 -- I've used X a few times, but I'm not at that "pro" level when it comes to OSX)

 

[Winston]

Originally posted by Huy
Never???

Not even Mandrake?
It's really a piece of cake,

but I prefer Windows because I've grown up with it.
(I have grown up around Macs, but the older PowerMacs and system 8/9 -- I've used X a few times, but I'm not at that "pro" level when it comes to OSX)

u wanna know how long ive used a PC? i only started in the beginning of yr 10 and up until now

i do believe ive learnt alot in comparison to some people whos touched a computer since they were 5 lol

i never knew wat a computer was till the end of yr 9, i heard about ICQ, and yea the hype lol

ahh well


nah im so afraid Linux's bootloaded (lilo) will fuck up my entire MBR,and when i erase the linux partition it will render my windows instalation as not-bootable

 

[Huy]

Originally posted by Winston
u wanna know how long ive used a PC? i only started in the beginning of yr 10 and up until now

woh, now I've heard everything

I'm the type you've described, who has "touched a computer since they were 5" -- in effect, but I've been using them for about 10 years (3.11 days and the old Apple's). I still had my 486DX100 up until a few years ago, running Windows 95!

Yeah, I would say that you've learnt heaps in comparison to most. (You've never known what a computer was until the Year 2000? Didn't you have computer-sessions in Years 5-6, or Internet usage in the 96-97 boom?).

Oh well, it doesn't matter.

It's good to hear that you've learnt heaps in a reasonably short amount of time.

 

[Winston]

Originally posted by Huy
woh, now I've heard everything

I'm the type you've described, who has "touched a computer since they were 5" -- in effect, but I've been using them for about 10 years (3.11 days and the old Apple's). I still had my 486DX100 up until a few years ago, running Windows 95!

Yeah, I would say that you've learnt heaps in comparison to most. (You've never known what a computer was until the Year 2000? Didn't you have computer-sessions in Years 5-6, or Internet usage in the 96-97 boom?).

Oh well, it doesn't matter.

It's good to hear that you've learnt heaps in a reasonably short amount of time.

our scool primary scool didnt offer computers, we had those old old computers that were orange font and thats it LOL

for the library, that was about the most advance i was in primary scool then wen i got into yr 7 - 9 i finally saw windows 3.1
woah lol im not kidding i never seen it and im like woah madness..

then when i got my first comp in yr 10 i remember in march it was a IBM which i still have, running windows 98 SE

it was revolutionary lol

but yeah oh wells....

 

[-X-]

Originally posted by Winston
uno as being computer savvy i have yet to use Linux in my total life...
perhaps i have no idea how to use it, and duno wat flavour to choose as there are so many bias opinions, some say red hat some say debian.

Well in my most unbiassed oppinion, id have to say NEVER go for redhat. I used to use it back when they had their 6.xx versions untill their 8.0 version which turned crap. It slowed the computer down and had allot of memory problems. So i swapped to slackware 9.0 and havent looked back since. Fast, stable and smooth compared to deadrat! I've also tried mandrake which is meant to be another nebie friendly OS which is heaps better than redhat. So if u want to try out linux, go for mandrake. Debian is another great OS which i havent tried. The top 2 linux dirstros i belive for stability and performace are slackware and debian. I will try out debian soon after the stupid HSC, lo.

 

[McLake]

First vote for MacOS!!

MacOSX is definately the best (and I have used Windows, MacOS and Linux).

A must to use it in conjunction with its UNIX core (much like a Linux "xterm").

 

[Beaky]

I'm running Mandrake 9.0 and have to say, it kicks arse ova Windows!!! i love it!!!

I agree Mac Os is quite good, however more developers need to develope software for the platform... but im sure thats why your doing software engineering McLake...

 

[-X-]

Hey McLake, how is software engineering compared to computer systems engineering? Are they really different or similar?

thanks

 

[jm1234567890]

Mac OSX looks so damn good, pity it has crappy file handling and is too user friendly

 

[fatmuscle]

I'll admit MacOSX is good!

used it for graphics/video stuff. It's heaps good. iMovie!

go win2k!

 

[Soliah]

MacOS is awesome

But I'm on XP .

And *nix rules.

 

[Huy]

Go the Mac support.

I used a G4 last week (graphite), it was mad!
I want an iBook with OS X 10.3 panther (even though its beta, why not )

but $$$
maybe next year...

 

[Comedy_Al]

Mac OS 10 isn't that awfull.... it has non-sequential file feching ie no defragging ever. But i still hate the interface.

 

[Comedy_Al]

Go the Mac support.

True.

 

[McLake]

Originally posted by -X-
Hey McLake, how is software engineering compared to computer systems engineering? Are they really different or similar?

thanks

Which uni has "Computer Systems Enginnering"? If you mean Computer Engineering then the main difference is hardware. Comp Eng has a 1/4 hardware (electrical and telecom engineering) component, whereas Soft Eng has a 1/4 Commerce component ...

 

[McLake]

Originally posted by Beaky
I agree Mac Os is quite good, however more developers need to develope software for the platform... but im sure thats why your doing software engineering McLake...

Of course. I hope to begin to fool around with Carbon/Aqua next year ...

 

[Winston]

Originally posted by McLake
Which uni has "Computer Systems Enginnering"? If you mean Computer Engineering then the main difference is hardware. Comp Eng has a 1/4 hardware (electrical and telecom engineering) component, whereas Soft Eng has a 1/4 Commerce component ...

UTS does

lol

 

[McLake]

Originally posted by Winston
UTS does

lol

Well I don't know much about the UTS course (ask one of the admins that go there ....)

 

[-X-]

Ok so thats the only difference between SE and CE in UNSW? Nothing more?

Thanks for your reply btw. Who does computer systems engineering at UTS?