If you could only run one OS for the rest of your life, which would it be?
| Mac OS X. |  33.9% (404 Votes) |
| Windows. | 30% (358 Votes) |
| Linux. | 31.5% (376 Votes) |
| BSD. | 2.5% (30 Votes) |
| Other. (Comment?) | 1.8% (22 Votes) |
Total Votes: 1190 | |
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GNU/Linux
2005-03-31 12:15:46 johnMG [Reply | View]
It'd run GNU/Linux.
I think I'd have a rough time of it with just a kernel. :)
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Definitely Linux
2005-03-31 08:58:59 David Brickner [Reply | View]
Several reasons:
1) It runs on multiple platforms. It feels more future proof because I can buy x86, AMD64, PPC, ARM, whatever in the future and still be able to run my OS of choice on it.
2) It is evolving rapidly. Mac OS X is great, with the near yearly updates, but Windows is largely stagnant.
3) Upgrades can be very cheap, and when using a meta-distribution like Debian, Gentoo, Ubuntu, or Arch those upgrades are very easy and ongoing.
4) Its future direction is not controlled by one person, or one company.
There are more reasons, but I don't want to sound too much like a fan boy. Hopefully my life will be long, and I want to keep as much flexibility in it as possible, and Mac OS X and Windows just seem too limiting.
Anyone else notice how the poll question is different than the question that appears at the top when you post a comment? The comment question is: If I could only choose one solar powered laptop to take onto a desert island, what os would it run?
My answer to that question would probably still be Linux because it comes with a lot of developer tools which give me a lot more flexibility to entertain myself than base installs of OS X or Windows.
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Linux??
2005-03-30 09:51:13 FDDI-C3nT [Reply | View]
Linux is not all that great.. nothing is where it should be.. the second you try to treat a linux distro line UNIX weird things start happening... the exception is slackware
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OS poll
2005-03-29 16:07:24 aleksandrmylnikov [Reply | View]
It will be perfect time to develop totally new OS. All current OS are far from perfect and locked in 30 year old paradigm. Unix like Os are much more able to adapt new features, but at the end they are too dependant of existing tools and applications set. -
OS poll
2005-03-30 03:20:01 zeeyed [Reply | View]
Your suggestion is logical.
But I think that Linux is already a modern OS, built with modern thaughts, needs, design and implementations.
There's lots of energy being spent on Linux, I won't bet on new a OS (look at BeOS), all we need is enlarge the linux community and .... may be we need to modernize the tools.
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None of the OS's of our present days can do any good to you when you're lost somewhere on a desert island. We need to look into the future...