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Subject: Re: *** PLEASE TAKE THIS OS SURVEY ***
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Date: 9 Feb 1996 06:11:55 GMT
Organization: Avalon Networks Inc.
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David Ritchi (ritchi@telebyte.nl) wrote:
: Jim Whitehead <jwhitehe@erc.cat.syr.edu> wrote:
: >Ok... here is the deal.... i have to do a project for my science fair...
: >and I decided to investiate the easiest to use na dmost reliable
: >Operating System/Environment... Please take the following 3 questions...
: >1.) What Operating System/Environment do you most frequently use?
Linux
: >2.) What Operating System/Environment do you feel is the most User Friendly?
Linux (I know it's not for most people, but *I* find text configurations and
horrendously long command lines with pipes etc. easier than scrollbars and
check boxes etc. I know that's very weird 8-). I especially like to
minimize extraneous motions to do things, i.e. having to go for a start
button way in the corner of the screen to start things instead of typing the
name (text) or finding any area not covered by a window to bring up a
program list (in X with fvwm.)
: >3.) Have you ever had a crash on your computer, that was blamed, or the
: >fault of the OS/OE, if so.. which system/environment was the cause?
Yes, when using development versions. 1.1.7x (don't remember what
exact version) and also 1.3.51.
I haven't had any crashes in 1.3.59 though after several weeks,
sometimes heavily using it.
1.1.59 was *very* stable, I had uptimes of weeks with it. Not loads of
users, but I would just leave the thing on all the time; I suppose showed
mainly a lack of severe memory leaks or bugs in the drivers I used.
With umm.. 1.1.95? with kswap patches, I had 10 users simultaneously
(in 10 megs of RAM.. ouch.) No problems.
No when using stable ones (1.0.9 briefly until I started on the early
1.1.xx's, 1.2.10, 1.2.13..)
I suppose summary is stable ones are stable (really *extremely* stable
once they finish a stable series fully..i.e. 1.0.9 and 1.2.13..), and
development ones, it's kind of a Russian roulette, but you can ask around to
hear which are rumored to be most stable (1.3.59 is pretty stable 8-).
: David.