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"Linux" is a kernel, and you can create different OSes around it, and that's what Linux distros are. But Windows and Mac OS X are full OSes, not kernels. They are like Linux distros, not like the Linux kernel. And finally, where did the user you were replying to ("-demo-", I assume) say that he thought that there was one "Linux" and didn't know about the difference of Linux and Linux distros? |
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Windows was "free" to me- it came on my computer (Wasn't aware of the Windows buy-back then)...yet I choose not to use it, because Linux works better; allows me to do more; and doesn't drive me nuts and waste my time. There may be no perfect OS...but Linux is as close as we have to that! I used Windows for 10 years....it was driving me crazy and requires ever newer hardware just to do half of what it did 10 years ago. The EULA is ludicrous and I hated booting up my computer and hearing the fan screaming and the hard disk moaning and straining while Windows loaded it's gigabytes of bloat. Switched to linux 1 year ago, and never looked back. Now I'm Linux-only. |
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Microsoft Windows is a line of Operating Systems. The reason behind this is Win32/64 API has been the same since NT came out. The binary formats, software IRQs, etc have been the same forever. |
One other thing I thought about is that it depends on how you define an OS. It can be anything from a kernel, userspace, and applications (such as a Linux distro), or just a kernel (which can do stuff on its own without userspace processes).
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Semantics?? |
Windows 98 ;)
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a better question would be "what is your second favorite O/S "
mine would be DOS 6 even with a GUI I spend a lot of time on the terminal (most of it as root) so much so that more often than not I'm booting to run level 3 and using startx& |
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BeOS is my favorite OS.
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API's have nothing to do with the instruction set, while INT's do. Software interrupts are implemented as instructions in the instruction set, which cause a context switch to an interrupt handler similar to a hardware interrupt. This has nothing to do with API's at all! |
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Because the "OS" was not restricted to any PC operating system, then I assume it can mean any system that sits between me and hardware and allows me to operate the device. Based on this assumption, the "other" I vote for would be my calculator "OS" which never glitches on me, doesn't require security updates, boots very quickly and can do some very basic numerical integration ;) Next would come the two obvious ones. |
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