Operating Systems Comparisons

Solaris

I grew up using the Apple ][e in grade school, eventually graduating into a Macintosh LC575. It was a school oriented computer with no software aside from the OS. I was using TeachText to write documents for school. Eventually, I snagged the CD out of CD-ROM Magazine at my grocery store, and went from there into the wonderful world of Mac OS 7.1. (Don't start bashing me yet guys). I moved up through all the changes with Apple's OS up until I graduated high school, and worked for my school district as a tech. I realized during the political turmoil at Apple that I would never get out of a school job knowing Macs. So my PC buddy at work told me about Sun Microsystems OS known as Solaris. I payed 8 grand to take as many classes as I wanted to within a year. I took 7 classes one of which was the E10K Admin class. For those of you not familiar with Sun's hardware, at the time the E10K was the high end server with 16 motherboards each capable of holding 4 processors and up to 4 gigs of RAM in each board and the low end config was over 1 million bucks. On top of that, if you wanted to upgrade, you had to have a Sun employee authorized to upgrade it for you. But back to my point; I was always a Mac enthuesiest, but realized there's more to life than Apple. Sun. Sun opened me up to Unix and from that I leaerned a whole lot about the computer insdustry. Look where Apple went with it's OS. MacOS X. Runs on BSD which branched from the original Unix. So now I have both again in my life, Apple and Unix. So everything I learned from Sun, helped me with Apple's new OS. But as I write this, I am running XP on my homebrewed PC. I love Solaris though. It is so robust and so powerful. If you want high end server admin type of an OS, go with Solaris. If you want a desktop PC, go with OS X.

 

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XP for me

As far as OS's go I'm way impressed with XP. Robust and user friendly is essentially all you need for the end user.

I used to bash MS in the past but I think they are working hard now to close the gaps. Used Lotus app's previously and migrated across to Office. Must tip my hat to MS for VBA, a little clunky to get a handle on at first but way impressive tool for customising working environments and app's that probably over 90% of the population use.

For now I'm sticking with MS..............convert me.

Allcare

Tony H2o

 

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I, too, have an Apple running OS X and it's the best all-around computer I've ever used. It is so easy that a tech-moron like me can use it, yet it is still powerfull enough to run Mathematica and all the other apps I need to use.

Not to mention, I don't have to deal with crashing or viruses. Two things I don't miss from my previous Windows 98 computer.