Poll: Operating Systems

#1 Dharmesh

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Posted 31 July 2003 - 05:44 PM

Im thinking about operating systems and they all have thier special features for differen't people. Tell me which is your favourite

#2 sapiens74

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Posted 31 July 2003 - 05:57 PM

XP Pro

You can have the eye candy if you want, but also make it look and feel like Win2k

Its stable ,fast, and has so many features to mention

#3 Tomay

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Posted 31 July 2003 - 07:26 PM

You forgot win2k3. It's the fastest microsoft os since windows 2000. If you use it as a workstation it beats win2000 and xp.

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Posted 31 July 2003 - 11:07 PM

^^^ buit for home users u need to enable alot of services that are turned off, which is not good for people scared of their compouters.lol

if you know what your doing then yes, but Xp can also be tweaked down to 2003 level and Xp does not have all the extra stuff like dns serevr, etc etc.

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Posted 01 August 2003 - 12:30 AM

Who's got the money to shell out for 2003 Server only to run it as a workstation at home!!!???

Windows 2000 SP4 is my pick. Never had one problem with it. I ran XP for 2 years and granted it boots faster (yippee) it was a fuster cluck of problems.

#6 Christianb

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Posted 01 August 2003 - 12:50 AM

Hi Gang,
I would like to vote for Windows 2003 server even though I no longer have it installed (120 Day Trial). I've never used anything faster or more stable. It features just the basics and once you turn of the security features and enable sound the OS is absolutely bitching.
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#7 Christianb

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Posted 01 August 2003 - 12:53 AM

Hi Mr. Guverment,
Actually I don't think you can get Windows XP to run as fast as Windows 2003 I turned of all the features in XP when I was using it and it never got as fast as 2003. I wish they'd make a workstation version of 2003 though.
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Posted 01 August 2003 - 12:55 AM

Define fast.

Same application? Game? Speed at which it opens documents? What is your test or set of tests?

#9 jmmijo

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Posted 01 August 2003 - 05:55 AM

Of course the best OS was omitted from this poll so hence my Others vote.

I guess I can date myself somewhat and say that I think AmigaDOS is the best thing since sliced bread

#10 Mr.Guvernment

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Posted 01 August 2003 - 07:53 AM

yes as in what fast

did u turn off all services - indentical to 2003? themese and all

i do not deny that 2003 is a fast as i have used it myself, but the way i tweak my xp i cna get it to run likely as fast

do not forget to make setting like how memory and cpu usage is et to back ground apps or foreground ones type thing.

2003 is a great O.S as u install it and it is fasdt, where as Xp u would need to tweak a bit to get it close to 2003 speeds - but again - the cost.

#11 Christianb

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Posted 01 August 2003 - 10:59 AM

I agree 2003 costs too much, but fortunately I used to work at Microsoft and have friends that still work there.
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#12 duhmez

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Posted 01 August 2003 - 12:14 PM

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FEEEELTHy PIRATES! that's who!

#13 Mr.Guvernment

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Posted 02 August 2003 - 03:02 AM

ARrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! m8ty!

OH, not those pirates..lol:D

#14 Dharmesh

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Posted 04 August 2003 - 04:39 AM

Is it any good.............. people are saying its fast but its a "server" windows not a workstation. How are games like Quake 3 and Ut 2003 and stuff and what :x interface does it use....... 2ks or Xps...... Anyways who got money to afford such a product and pirating is not the way to go.

#15 Christianb

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Posted 05 August 2003 - 02:57 AM

Hi Dharmesh,
By default Windows 2003 has Win2K's UI, but I think there's a way to install the Windows XP UIs.
Cheers,
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Posted 05 August 2003 - 04:46 AM

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By default Windows 2003 has Win2K's UI, but I think there's a way to install the Windows XP UIs.

You need to enable and start the Windows Themes service.

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Posted 05 August 2003 - 09:39 AM

Hi Adam,
Thanks for the tip I'll keep that in mind if I play with it some more. All I have is the 120 Day trial. Even though I could probably get it at an extreme discount I really don't like playing with Operating Systems until they're more mature. I'll let somebody else play around with intermittent data loss

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Cheers,
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Posted 06 August 2003 - 04:57 AM

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Thanks for the tip I'll keep that in mind if I play with it some more. All I have is the 120 Day trial.

No problem, currently all I have is the evaluation copy too. If you're interested, by the way, if you order the Exchange 2003 evaluation kit, you can get a copy of Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition for evaluation, too. Although not too much of a difference between that and the Enterprise Edition, at least for evaluation purposes.

While semi-on topic about operating systems, Gentoo Linux 1.4 was released today... Finally out of beta/RC!!