On 7 Apr 2012, at 08:20, Terry Coles <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Saturday 07 Apr 2012 00:03:49 Tim wrote: >>> Anyway, what's your favourite? I should add I mean for desktop use >>> rather than server use, but it's all relevant! > > The Mac had a better desktop at the time, but there was no > shell at all, so you could only do what the GUI let you do. Apart from that, > Datatypes were introduced around 1992, which meant that apps knew what to do > with different file types without resorting to clunky mechanisms like file > extensions like Windows did (and still does). I mainly use BackTrack, which is now Ubuntu-based, but that because I work in Information Security and the distro is probably the best equipped for penetration testing and malware research. Apart from that, it's Ubuntu. I just like the the package management system, it reminds me of BSD which is my heritage (along with Digital VMS). I know that Fedora now has a similar package management system, but every time I've tried installing it I've had hardware compatibility issues. In my previous role I was responsible for about 5,000 CentOS servers - I wouldn't recommend that for a desktop OS! Funny Terry mentioned the lack of Terminal on the original Macintosh operating system, I used to use a Macintosh application called "Mach 10" in the late-eighties that ran a separate BSD kernel in each instance of the application. With this, for instance, you could start multiple kernels each handling a separate NCSA Webserver instance and if one dropped, you could respawn the instance, this is virtualisation 10 years ahead of VM Ware ;) Jimmy -- Next meeting: Bournemouth, Tuesday 2012-05-01 20:00 Meets, Mailing list, IRC, LinkedIn, ... http://dorset.lug.org.uk/ New thread on mailing list: mailto:[email protected] How to Report Bugs Effectively: http://goo.gl/4Xue
