Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 31st Jan 2003 00:09 UTC
Well, we all have used Unix, in one form or another (maybe even through embeded products). But which one is your favorite flavor of Unix-based/Unix-alike OSes? Read more and vote! Update: SHAME on you, who ever you are: Messing/hacking with go2poll's code and altering the results in favor of FreeBSD. By doing so, you are doing MORE BAD than good to your favorite platform.
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I nearly voted for OS X, because of it's ease of use and applications. In the end I went for NeXT, NeXTSTEP may be dead and lacks modern software, but it's still a fantastic OS IMO.
NeXTSTEP 3.3 is quite fast and responsive on the old 64Mb P233 I use for messing around with old software. It's certainly much faster than Linux with KDE/GNOME, or Windows 2000 on the same system. To me it feels even more responsive than the latest OS X running on a 500Mhz G3, which seems strange considering how similar OS X and NeXTSTEP are.
Package management is brilliant, installing and removing software is easier than in Windows, so there's no comparison with Linux. If anything I like the NeXTSTEP GUI a bit more than Mac OS X, I prefer the NeXTSTEP Dock/miniwindows/shelf to the Dock in Mac OS X, it tries to do too much and can get cluttered. Plus NeXTSTEP is more consistent, as there isn't the mix of cocoa, carbon and classic apps.
Despite being over 10 years old, the only desktop UNIX that comes close is Mac OS X, and that was based on it. If Linux ever becomes half as elegant and easy to use as NeXTSTEP I would switch in a second.