The Best, Worst, and Ugliest OSes of the Decade

itwbennett writes "Hundreds of Operating Systems were released during the past decade, finding their way into microdevices, watches, refrigerators, mobile phones, cars, motorcycles, jets, even the International Space Station. Some worked; some even worked well. Others, sadly, didn't. And some were just ahead of their time. Blogger Tom Henderson takes a look back at the best and worst OSes of the decade. Among the worst? Vista, as you'd suspect, along with WinME. But what about GNU Hurd? And some of the best? Solaris/OpenSolaris 10, Mac OS X, and newcomer Google Android."

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Re:like...WHATever, dood...

[yurtinus]

WinME was the best of the 9x line

hee hee

hehehahahahaha

hoo hooo

BWAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!

/wipes tear

Thanks, I needed some cheer this morning!

uh, what?

[amicusNYCL]

GNU rewritten Unix utilities tool set were invented by through the purity in effort of Richard Stallman

Why did the author feel the need to run his text through a Chinese translator then back to English?

Re:uh, what?

[PCM2]

Your post made me go back and read the article. And it's true -- this is one of the worst-written articles I have ever seen. Every paragraph is a mish-mosh of subject/verb confusion, mixed metaphors, redundant wording, run-ons, and just about every other mistake you could make. You cherry-picked the best example of the lot, but among other howlers we have:

• 1. The world was looking for the joiner of Novell's time-honored and rock-solid NetWare network operating system to be joined fully to Linux.
  1. Technically, it arrived late in the 1990's, but its inclusion here is to remember the pain of the name.
  1. The love/hate relationship becomes anchored with deep emotions about the merits/detractions of the devices they use-- through the lenses of operating systems.
  1. Even a leopard can change its spots, sometimes as scar tissue.
  1. A natively 'jailbroken' open phone will test carrier promises to just deliver wireless pipe.

Taken as a whole, TFA becomes a kind of demented poetry. Kudos to whatever maniac got it published.

Re:IMHO solaris has a really bad userland

[Nerdfest]

That's why you rarely hear anyone say "This is the year of the Solaris desktop".

Re:BeOS

[asherlev]

I still miss it. So much potential and such high hopes. I suppose I should check out Haiku.

Checking out Haiku is going to be like resurrecting your dead mother. Her soul is gone and she'll just try to eat your brains.

Re:GNU Hurd is not an OS

[VGPowerlord]

Yes, the complete OS is GNU GNU/Hurd.

Re:BeOS

[AndrewNeo]

Or you'll get your arm and leg torn off, and your brother will have to live in a suit of armor.

Re:BeOS

[imakemusic]

I'm still missing it.
Such high hopes and potential.
Should check out haiku.

ftfy

Re:IMHO solaris has a really bad userland

[shirotakaaki]

The beauty is Windows 7 is just Vista SP2 without that nasty Vista name attached. So if you already had Vista you had to pay a second time for 7. **KA-CHING

Re:IMHO solaris has a really bad userland

[amRadioHed]

[citation needed]

Here you go.