For those who are "enjoying" the Windows 8 Metro/touchscreen/smartphone lame UI .... install classic powershell. It will give you a start menu again.

(08-18-2013 03:43 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  And yes, that's a write-in vote for Windows ME.

Only because you are too young to remember Windows 95 / 98. They top the sucktastic list of operating sysytems.

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Yep, XP was like a dream after the Crash proned 95/98 systems. Then MS reverted back next several systems.

(08-19-2013 10:53 AM)Shannon Panther Wrote:  

(08-18-2013 03:43 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  And yes, that's a write-in vote for Windows ME.

Only because you are too young to remember Windows 95 / 98. They top the sucktastic list of operating sysytems.

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I started with Windows 3.1. I got a new computer with Windows ME in Xmas of 2000. That pushed me to use Mandrake 7.0 .... and that was early to mid kernel 2.4 in Linux. By the time XP SP3 came out, I wasn't even dual booting with Windows anymore. Windows 95/98 had serious issues, but they made some improvements too. But they're still woefully short of even ancient versions of Linux.

Windows 95 turned 18 today

http://dagobah.net/flash/windows_95_japan.swf

(08-17-2013 04:30 PM)mattsarz Wrote:  I made sure my parent's last laptop purchase was done before Windows 8. My sister is now in the market for one and I've told her to go Mac or buy a clearance laptop from Best Buy that comes with 7 because of the changes in 8.

I was looking at a Walmart clearance computer this week that had Windows 7 on it. For that reason.

(08-24-2013 12:06 PM)georgia_tech_swagger Wrote:  Windows 95 turned 18 today

http://dagobah.net/flash/windows_95_japan.swf

I laughed out loud at the crunching of the old hard drives and the dial up. The things you forget.

Linux turns 22 today with this humble post made the comp.os.minix newsgroup:

Quote:Hello everybody out there using minix -

I'm doing a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won't be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones. This has been brewing since april, and is starting to get ready. I'd like any feedback on things people like/dislike in minix, as my OS resembles it somewhat (same physical layout of the file-system (due to practical reasons) among other things).

I've currently ported bash(1.08) and gcc(1.40), and things seem to work. This implies that I'll get something practical within a few months, and I'd like to know what features most people would want. Any suggestions are welcome, but I won't promise I'll implement them :-)

Linus (torv...@kruuna.helsinki.fi)

PS. Yes - it's free of any minix code, and it has a multi-threaded fs. It is NOT protable (uses 386 task switching etc), and it probably never will support anything other than AT-harddisks, as that's all I have :-(.