Which OS is most stable?


  

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  1. 1. Which OS is most stable?

    • Win 95/98
      1
    • Linux
      12
    • Win nt
      1
    • Win me
      0
    • Win 2000
      26
    • Win XP
      46
    • BeOS
      0
    • MacOS X
      0
    • FreeBSD
      1


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Windows 95 = Utter ****

Windows 98 = Was **** too, but was a tad tweaked

Windows 98SE = Much better than 98 and 95, but you would be guarantee to get the occasional crash.

Windows NT = Stable, but lack of support, PNP support, games didnt run.

Windows 2000 = Microsoft does something right for once, everything runs great and has good support now.

Windows XP = The trigger to take over the world :D

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Originally posted by [Neo] 

...Windows 2000 = Microsoft does something right for once, everything runs great and has good support now.

Some games dont work and music plays with ambience, see a past post.

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Windows XP = The trigger to take over the world :D

True...can't wait. :)

... don??t misunderstand me.

I love Windows XP and I think it?s the best Operation System M$ ever created. But that doesn?t make it the most stable.

Stablity of M$ OSs:

9x/ME = No need to mention, those aren?t real Systems!

NT 4 = with SP 6a the most STABLE System ever ... especially due to its lack of features. Since most DirectX and 3D stuff simply won?t run they won?t make it crash.

W2k = (alias NT 5.0) High stability and most the features missing in NT4 are included ... but with SP2 it still has some annoying bugs and security holes. Let?s hope for the next service packs.

WXP = (alias NT 5.1) It?s Win2k with a smarter and more colourful GUI and some new features and improvements. But due to to the high integration of the three main components (Eplorer, IE 6 and WMP 8) and the huge ammount of graphical features the GUI isn?t that stable (although the System itself is!). I?m using RC2 [german] at the moment and explorer.exe crashes rather often. And you can create a bleuscreen with a simple twain application. I think WXP is good, but not the most stable!

For other OS ....

Linux is extremly stable and in more than one way far superior to Windows. But since M$ simply has the better software support and is beginning to copy some of the coolest features of the newer Linux distributions and including them into WinXP Windows gets closer verey day ....

BeOS 5 pro is stable .... but only because there are no Apps for it that could make it crash ...

Mac OS ... sorry, never used it ...

Linux is stable, but it doesn't support as many hardware as Windows does.

Windows 2000 is the first stable MS OS ever. I have experiences installing Windows 3.1/95/98/98SE/Me/2000/XP, and Win2k is the first one that didn't give me too much headache after I fresh install it. I am sure most of you know that when you install win98, it often doesn't have the right driver for sound and graphics card. Well, both Win2k/XP recognizes my hardware setting perfectly. Sadly, I cannot install Geforce graphics card on my computer because my Intel graphics card is intergrated on my motherboard. I see a great improvement in Windows XP software compatibility. Many programs that I can't run in Win2k works great in WinXP.

Honestly, I don't think Windows XP is the trigger to take over the world. I think BlackComb is the one becasue of the .Net and HailStorm Technology (or HellStorm :ninja: ) ....I wonder how many people are gonna subscribe to their service when it becomes available to the public. Before MS release these advanced technology, they need to make sure that their central server will never be down like what happend few month ago. Windows Messenger and a buncha Passport things didn't work at that time, and I doubt how stable .Net will be..mmm

I just love it NOT , but my new machine wont run Win 2k , Installs , does the first boot , gets to the w2k screen you know the one , has those little blue squares , then Blank nothing nada

So I am currently stuck with ME and XP

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Originally posted by hob_se  

wonder why WindowsXP isn't NT version 6...

Windows98 is windows 4 (and abit) and has IE4..

Windows2000 is NT 5 and has IE5..

Do I have to little to thing about?... :s

Windows 95 was Windows 4.0 and had IE 2/3

Windows 98 was Windows 4.1 and had IE 4/5

Windows ME was Windows 4.9 and had IE 5.5

Windows 2000 was NT 5 and had IE 5.01

Windows XP will be NT 5.1 and will have IE 6

Windows Longhorn will probably be NT 5.5 and have IE 6.5

Windows Blackcomb will be NT 6 and probably have IE 7

Windows XP was originally intended to be a minor upgrade for Windows 2000 that was intended for home users as well. Longhorn will probably be NT 5.5 and Blackcomb will be NT 6.0.

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Originally posted by Stevie  

Hi,

It impossible to run Linux on a separate petition?  I am currently running Windows 2000 and Windows XP.

I have never had any experience with Linux but wouldn't mind giving it a try.

Stevie

You can install Linux on a seperate partition and you can even make a boot flop that boots you to Linux ... remove the flop and you have your standard windows bootmanager again..

Use the flop to prevent Lilo boot from messing up your boot sector

If you want to delete Linux just repartition and your're done

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Originally posted by MaddogMDD  

Not once was good ol' Windows 3.1 mentioned! :o  

Not that it was stable or anything, but it brings back both good and bad memories.  It was my first OS, back in like 91 or something.

actually, Win 3.1 was pretty stable, but I should point out that it wasn't a real operating system, but rather a gui and multi-tasking add-on for dos..

but someone said they voted for dos, I agree with that :) I vote for dos too :)

Of all the OS's created by Microsoft. The worst has to be Windows Me this is the most crappiest OS i've ever used.

I dont know why they developed it since Windows XP was pretty close to release.

In my rating from least stable to most would be something like this.

1. Windows 95

2. Windows ME

3. Windows 98

4. Windows 98SE

5. Windows NT SP6

6. 2000/XP are about the same :D

The scary thing is Microsoft products are getting better, which means their ultimate goal of taking over the world is getting closer hehe :D

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Originally posted by [Neo] 

Of all the OS's created by Microsoft. The worst has to be Windows Me this is the most crappiest OS i've ever used.

I dont know why they developed it since Windows XP was pretty close to release.

In my rating from least stable to most would be something like this.

1. Windows 95

2. Windows ME

3. Windows 98

4. Windows 98SE

5. Windows NT SP6

6. 2000/XP are about the same :D

The scary thing is Microsoft products are getting better, which means their ultimate goal of taking over the world is getting closer hehe :D

I agree, except for Win NT4 SP6a, i think that is the MOST stable OS, out of the 6 mentioned.

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