Let’s all have some fun and leave a comment about what we liked most in the OS scene this year!We don’t have an engine to simply click some radio buttons and fire away the results, so everyone will have to copy/paste the categories and fill up next to them his/her choices. Find below the categories and just some suggestions which are there just to show what goes where. Fill up your choices, don’t get influenced by the samples.
Best Hobby OS [e.g. SkyOS, AtheOS, MenuetOS, Syllable etc etc]
Best Desktop/Workstation OS [WinXP/2k/NT, Win9x,* BeOS, Linux, OSX, etc etc (no individual Linux distros here)]
Best Server OS [e.g. Solaris, IRIX, Win2k, FreeBSD, Linux etc etc (no individual Linux distros here)]
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year [e.g. Lycoris, Gentoo, OSX, OpenBSD etc]
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year [e.g. Lindows, QNX, AtheOS etc]
Best desktop environment [e.g. Aqua, Luna, KDE, CDE, BeOS/Tracker, Gnome, Syllable etc.]
Most profound application of the year [e.g. Mozilla, Photoshop, Evolution, Outlook XP, OOo, iCal, KaZaA, VS.NET, Eclipse etc]
*Note 1: WinXP, NT and 2k are considered the same OS (they share the same core). Win95, 98 and ME are the same between them, but not against XP/NT/2k (Win9x/ME doesn’t have the same core as XP/NT/2k).
*Note 2: Please stick to the pre-selected categories. Not that it really matters, just for consistency’s sake. We don’t want to confuse readers. 🙂
And my vote goes too…
Best Hobby OS: Syllable
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: MacOSx
Best Server OS: Solaris
Greatest distribution surprise of the year: Redhat 8.0
Greatest distribution dissapointment of the year: Mandrake 9.0
Best desktop environment: Aqua
Most profound application of the year: Mozilla 1.*
Best Hobby OS [N/A]
Best Desktop/Workstation OS [Solaris/CDE]
Best Server OS [OpenBSD]
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year [Gentoo]
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year [Lindows]
Best desktop environment [Aqua]
Most profound application of the year [Evolution]
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Best Hobby OS AtheOS
Best Desktop/Workstation OS MacOSX
Best Server OS – Linux
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year MacOSX Jaguar
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year: No new Amiga yet
Best desktop environment Aqua
Most profound application of the year: Flash MX
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Best Hobby OS: SkyOS
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: MacOSX.2
Best Server OS: AIX5L
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year: Gentoo
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year: Mandrake 8.0.
Best desktop environment: Aqua
Most profound application of the year: fink
Best Hobby OS: Linux
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: Windows XP PRO
Best Server OS: Linux
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year: Lycoris
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year: Mandrake 9.0.
Best desktop environment: OS X Aqua
Most profound application of the year: Mozilla
Best Hobby OS: OpenBeOS
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: WinXP
Best Server OS: FreeBSD
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year: RedHat 8.0
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year:
Best desktop environment: BeOS
Most profound application of the year: Eclipse
Best Hobby OS: n/a
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: FreeBSD (favorite windows os is Windows 2000)
Best Server OS: FreeBSD
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year: RedHat
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year: Windows XP
Best desktop environment: Gnome2
Most profound application of the year: Anjuta
mike: “A focus shift? Let’s hope there is no OSNewsIA or even a EugeniaIA/Eugeniaia. E-I-E-I-O.”
hehe EugeniaOS turns into EugeniaIA!
Eukalia: You’re funny! hahahahahahaahh
Well, let’s go:
Best Hobby OS: BeOS
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: BeOS
Best Server OS: FreeBSD
Greatest distribution surprise of the year: maybe OpenBeOS, BlueEyedOS and Zeta beta versions
Greatest distribution dissapointment of the year: Windows, of course!
Best desktop environment: Gonx (BlueEyedOS GUI) and, of course, the future GUI of OpenBeOS, design by “stubear” (if Mr. Phipps wants)).
Most profound application of the year: Mozilla 1.*/Phoenix for BeOS/OpenOffice!
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Well, the year is finishing, but always we have forces to bring BeOS back to life!
Michael VI
Best Hobby OS Linux
Best Desktop/Workstation OS W2K
Best Server OS linux, solaris
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year Lycoris/Gentoo
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year RedHat psyche
Best desktop environment fluxbox & KDE
Most profound application of the year mono(www.go-mono.com)
Best Hobby : Linux
Best Desktop/Workstation : Linux for all, Win 2k for Word and Excel
Best server, gateway : linux
Best Distribution : Mandrake 9.0
Greates disapointment : Windows XP (to many annimations, it’s not an OS but a cartoon)
Best enviroment : KDE 3
Best Hobby OS: Linux
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: Windows XP PRO
Best Server OS: Small Business Server
Best desktop environment: WinXP’s Luna
Best Hobby OS: Syllable
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: Windows XP pro
Best Server OS: FreeBSD.
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year: Gentoo.
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year: Mandrake 9.0.
Best desktop environment: WinXP’s Luna
Most profound application of the year: OpenOffice
“Michael VI” is wrong!
Michael Vinícius de Oliveira
BlueEyedOS Webmaster
Best Hobby OS – Linux
Best Desktop/Workstation OS – Linux
Best Server OS – Solaris
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year – OS X
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year – OS X
Best desktop environment – Gnome
Most profound application of the year – Eclipse
Best Hobby OS SkyOS
Best Desktop/Workstation BeOS
Best Server OS FreeBSD
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year: OSX
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year
Mandrake 9
Best desktop environment BeOS/Tracker
Most profound application of the year
OpenOffice
Best Hobby OS: AROS http://www.aros.org
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: Linux
Best Server OS: Linux
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year: Mandrake
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year:Redhat
(no xine, mplayer)
Best desktop environment: xfce
Most profound application of the year: Phoenix
Best Hobby OS : hobby ?
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: BeOS
Best Server OS: Linux
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year: Suse Linux
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year: Debian Linux
Best desktop environment: Beos/Tracker, KDE
Most profound application of the year: http://www.thelavalamp.org
Best Hobby OS:
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: Linux
Best Server OS: Linux
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year: Gentoo
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year: Lindows
Best desktop environment: KDE
Most profound application of the year: Konqueror
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: OSX or Linux
Best Server OS: Linux
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year: Knoppix
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year: ESware
Best desktop environment: KDE 3.1
Most profound application of the year: Konqueror 3.1
Also I like to note the Koffice 1.2, Mozilla and OpenOffice.org
Best Hobby OS [e.g. SkyOS, AtheOS, MenuetOS, Syllable etc etc]
BeOS
Best Desktop/Workstation OS [WinXP/2k/NT, Win9x,* BeOS, Linux, OSX, etc etc (no individual Linux distros here)]
OSX (yes, its slow but damn it is slick)
Best Server OS [e.g. Solaris, IRIX, Win2k, FreeBSD, Linux etc etc (no individual Linux distros here)]
Solaris (Proven, solid but slow once again)
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year [e.g. Lycoris, Gentoo, OSX, OpenBSD etc]
RedHat 8.0
(never expected it to actually feel that slick)
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year [e.g. Lindows, QNX, AtheOS etc]
Mandrake 9.0 (expected so much more)
Best desktop environment [e.g. Aqua, Luna, KDE, CDE, BeOS/Tracker, Gnome, Syllable etc.]
Aqua (not as revolutionary as I had hoped but still very nice and very livable)
Most profound application of the year [e.g. Mozilla, Photoshop, Evolution, Outlook XP, OOo, iCal, KaZaA, VS.NET, Eclipse etc]
Evolution (it has gotten a lot of great press for the opensource movement)
Best Hobby OS: BeOS
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: FreeBSD
Best Server OS: FreeBSD
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year: Gentoo
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year: AtheOS
Best desktop environment: KDE
Most profound application of the year: Mozilla
Best Hobby OS:
OpenBeOS (or whatever name they have now)
-> Gee, they’re doing a great job! Hope in 2003 they go further. They deserve a note (fala BGA!)
Best Desktop/Workstation OS:
Linux
-> If I could vote on XP separately, it’ll be my vote, because XP is impressive as a desktop despite the Luna ugliness. But the most interesting happenings on Linux in 2002 was on desktop. It’s nearly a whole new world compared to 2001.
Best Server OS:
Solaris
-> It’s my choice. Linux is great, FreeBSD is fantastic, 2000 is capable (I haven’t testes OS X Server), but Solaris is still the king of the hill.
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year:
RedHat 8
-> Bluecurve is great, the overall distro is impressive. Now all free/Open Source OS that want to be a desktop contender will have to be better than RH 8.
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year:
Lindows.com
-> They supposed to be the ‘agent of change’. Nice try, Micheal Robertson, but RedHat, Mandrake, Xandros and Lycoris are ahead of you now.
Best desktop environment:
BeOS/Tracker
-> It’s still the most elegant desktop over there, Luna is ugly, Aqua is too childish to my taste. Hope in 2003 I vote for Gnome. Go Gnomers!
Most profound application of the year:
OpenOffice.org
-> I could have voted for Mozilla here, but the OOo team are achieving some impressive feats.
Best Hobby OS: None have really sparked m interest
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: Mac OS X
Best Server OS: Linux
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year: Gentoo
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year: None
Best desktop environment: Aqua
Most profound application of the year: Chimera
Best Hobby OS: ???
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: WinXP/2k/NT
Best Server OS: Solaris
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year: Xandros Desktop 1.0
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year: Lindows
Best desktop environment: Aqua
Most profound application of the year:OOo
David
Best Hobby OS : BeOS… runs fine on my dual-P3@800 and U160 SCSI
Best Desktop/Workstation OS : BeOS… multi-thread, stable, quick
Best Server OS : FreeBSD… for personnal home serve
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year : OpenBeOS… keep on guys
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year : Lindows…
Best desktop environment : BeOS/Tracker
Most profound application of the year : BeShare
Best Hobby OS:
OpenBeOS
Best Desktop/Workstation OS:
BeOS
Best Server OS:
FreeBSD
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year:
Gentoo
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year:
Red Hat
Best desktop environment:
BeOS
Most profound application of the year:
Phoenix
Best desktop/workstation OS: Red Hat Linux 8.0
Best server OS: Red Hat Linux 7.3 or OpenBSD 3.2
Best applications: Phoenix and PostgreSQL
OS disappointment: Mandrake 9.0
OS surprise: NetBSD 1.6 (just because I hadn’t used it before)
Best Hobby OS: Linux
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: Linux
Best Server OS: AIX
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year: Slackware Linux 8.1
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year: LindowsOS
Best desktop environment: KDE
Most profound application of the year: OpenOffice
Best Hobby OS: Syllable
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: BeOS
Best Server OS: FreeBSD
Greatest distribution surprise of the year: Gentoo
Greatest distribution dissapointment of the year:
Best desktop environment: BeOS/Tracker
Best Hobby OS: –
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: BeOS
Best Server OS: Linux (really depends on what you are doing)
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year: Xandros
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year: AmigaOS 4
Best desktop environment: BeOS/Tracker
Most profound application of the year: Visual Studio .Net (as much as I hate to admit it.
Best Hobby OS: OpenBeOS
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: MacOS X.2 Jaguar (power of unix + all the great apps)
Best Server OS: Linux
Greatest distribution surprise of the year: New Amigas (finally!)
Greatest distribution dissapointment of the year: Windows XP (a real step down from Windows 2000 in my eyes).
Best desktop environment: Aqua
Most profound application of the year: Chimera
Best Hobby OS: Well, for obvious reasons, I’m partial to Dynapad (http://dynapad.swiki.net).
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: Mac OS X 10.2
Best Server OS: FreeBSD
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year: Gentoo- it really came from relatively nowhere to one of the more popular distros!
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year AtheOS- too bad he lost interest…
Best desktop environment OpenStep 4.2’s desktop environment is still winning, which is sad- why hasn’t anything else caught up yet?
Most profound application of the year Nothing on the list seemed profound to me, just business as usual… Even though no one else will know what this is, I’ll vote for the Faure PIM system (http://russell-allen.com/squeak/faure/).
Best Hobby OS: OpenBeOS, MorphOS, RiscOS (but are they hobby OSs, really?).
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: OS X, BeOS.
Best Server OS: FreeBSD.
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year: ?
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year: ?
Best desktop environment: BeOS/Tracker, Aqua.
Most profound application of the year: Groboto
Best Hobby OS: Gentoo Linux
Best Desktop/Worstation: Mac OS X.2 Jaguar
Best Server OS: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year : Gentoo Linux
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year : LindowsOS
Best desktop environment: OS X’s Aqua
Most profound application of the year : Mozilla and kids (Phoenix & Chimera)
Special mention to Mandrake Linux 9.0, which is according to me a pretty good worstation OS.
Best Hobby: Any linux distro, and then BeOS
Best Desktop OS: Lycoris Desktop/LX
Best Server: I dunno…I don’t have a server…
Greatest OS: Lycoris Desktop/LX
Greatest Dissapointment: Mandrake 9
Best Desktop environment: KDE3
Most profound app: Open Office or Evoloution (too bad Evo is gnome based)
Best Hobby OS: MenuetOS
Best Desktop OS: Linux
Best Server OS: OpenBSD
Greatest distribution of the year: Gentoo
Disappointment of the year: Lindows
Best desktop environment: Enlightenment
Most profound application of the year: Mozilla
Best Hobby OS: BeOS (and derivatives)
Best Desktop: Mac OSX
Best Workstation OS: Linux
Best Server OS: Linux (almost a tie with xBSD)
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year: Tie: Gentoo and RH 8.0
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year: OEOne’s HomeBase. Great idea, decent implementation, but no K6 support and it’s still quite slow.
Best desktop environment: KDE 3.1
Most profound application of the year: Four way tie for very different reasons: Eclipse, Freevo, Crossover Office and the Fluxbox WM (yes, you read that right.)
Just an elaboration with Fluxbox: As tabs are an addictive feature with browsers and xterms, they become quite central with window management. While Fluxbox’s implementation could use a few tweaks, it is _very_ productive. I tried it on a lark, and now I find using anything else very cumbersome. (Including OS X, Win32, KDE and Gnome…)
My $0.02CDN.
Best Hobby OS: Open BeOS
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: w2k
Best Server OS: FreeBSD
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year: RedHat 8
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year: Mandrake 9
Best desktop environment: Aqua
Most profound application of the year: Mozilla 1.x
Best Hobby OS SkyOS
Best Desktop/Workstation OS Linux
Best Server OS Solaris
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year Gentoo
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year QNX
Best desktop environment KDE
Most profound application of the year AMSN
Best Hobby OS: BeOS, BlueEyedOS
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: Windows2K/XP <Shame>
Best Server OS : *nix
Greatest OS surprise of the year : Gentoo
OS dissapointment of the year : WinXP
Best desktop environment : BeOS/Tracker
Most profound application of the year : Mozilla, OpenOffice
Best Hobby OS: Syllabe
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: WinXP
Best Server OS: FreeBSD
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year: OpenBeOS
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year: AtheOS
Best desktop environment: Luna
Most profound application of the year: Mozilla 1.0
Best Hobby OS : OpenBeOS
Best Desktop/Workstation OS : MacOS 8x/9x ( OSX?? Next year…)
Best Server OS : ……..
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year : Lycoris
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year : AtheOS
Best desktop environment : BeOS/Tracker
Most profound application of the year : OpenOffice
Best Hobby OS:
——> OpenBeOS, Syllable
Best Desktop/Workstation OS:
——> BeOS R5, KDE2, W2K
Best Server OS:
——> Linux 2.4, Apache, PostgreSQL
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year:
——> BeBits, SourceForge
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year :
——> Win2K, WinXP, Linux, Mandrake.
Best desktop environment:
——> BeOS: Tracker & Kits, BeFS
Most profound application of the year:
——> Mozilla, Flash MX, BeIDE, GCC, GDB, Embedded Javascript, Mesa3D, GLUt, Xerces XML, DirectX, OpenGL, LibArt, Visual .NET.
Best Hobby OS: OpenBSD
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: Mac OS X.2.x
Best Server OS: FreeBSD
Greatest distribution surprise of the year: Gentoo
Greatest distribution dissapointment of the year: RedHat 8.0/WinXp (Always a disappointment)
Best desktop environment: Aqua
Most profound application of the year: Chimera 0.6.0
And, the Best OS of the year is: Mac OS X.2 (Jaguar)
Best Hobby OS: OpenBeos (walter?!!)
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: MacOSX (10.2), WinXP,
Best Server OS: Linux
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year:Lycoris, Conectiva Linux (Brazil)
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year: Mandrake
Best desktop environment: MacOSX, BeOS, WinXP
Most profound application of the year: OpenOffice, Mozilla
Best Hobby OS: OpenBeOS
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: Mac OS X
Best Server OS: FreeBSD
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year: Danger OS*
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year: Lindows
Best desktop environment: BeOS/Tracker
Most profound application of the year: Ogg/Vorbis**
*If that doesn’t count, then RedHat 8.
**If that doesn’t count, then Chimera.
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: FreeBSD (I have used it on my desktop for a little over a year).
Best Server OS: FreeBSD
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year: OSX
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year: OSX (Why do I have to be locked into a GUI) WindowsXP (It is just broken)
Best desktop environment: FVWM2 (I can make it act any way I want it to)
Most profound application of the year: Delphi 7 (Kylix)
Best Hobby OS: Linux
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: Windows XP Pro
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year: Xandros
Best desktop environment: Luna or KDE
Don’t know enough about the rest of the categories to make an intelligent guess.
Best Hobby OS – AtheOS (for good apps availability)
Best Desktop/Workstation OS – BeOS (can’t beat a thoroughly thought GUI, AND low latency)
Best Server OS – OpenBSD (obscure. OpenBSD wins because it does the work just as well as others, but with much greater security)
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year – MacOS X (Everything from the new interface, and the mutation of FreeBSD(or was it NetBSD?))
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year – RedHat Linux (I’m a KDE guy, period.)
Best desktop environment – BeOS/Tracker (Still the best GUI ever)
Most profound application of the year – OpenOffice.org (A major catalyst for the focus shift of linux distro towards desktop)
Best hobby os: Menuet OS.
I picked this one because it is truly something different from the rest. Everything else uses the same conventional stuff. The architecture may be a little different from Linux, Be OS and/or Windows, but nothing really interesting. Menuet OS on the other hand is. Probably it would become the Amiga OS of x86.
Best desktop/workstation OS: Windows XP
I have to say, I’m mighty impressed by it. There are some annoying bugs, but they are fine anyway.
Best server OS: Solaris
Of course, any other UNIX other than IRIX is fine, but it really depends on what kind of server. For example, web servers I would find FreeBSD and Linux great.
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year: Red Hat Linux 8.0
It was a surprised, considering a few months prior to that, they didn’t have much interest in the desktop. It has a .0 quality, but it should be fixed in the next release, for sure. Others, like SuSE, was good, but didn’t surprise me.
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year: Amiga OS 4
Still not released yet. It was supposed to be released last year.
Best desktop environment: NeXTstep
Simply the best design ever, not the same conventional design. Everything was design for produtivity and ease of use, rather on familarity.
Most profound application of the year: KOffice
I would say Office because it has been truly remarkable having so many features, but this isn’t something out of the usual. KOffice had, with so little help, manage to go so far in just 11 months. I’m real proud of it. Now, in the 1.2, it has all the features I would need. Features that would be nice (SmartTags, for example) should come in handy, but I’m not demanding.
Best Hobby OS: OpenBeOS
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: Mac OS X
Best Server OS: Linux
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year: Red Hat
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year: Lindows
Best desktop environment: KDE
Most profound application of the year: Mozilla
Best Hobby OS: AROS
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: AmigaOS
Best Server OS: Solaris
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year: New Amiga HW!
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year: ???
Best desktop environment: Workbench/Intuition
Most profound application of the year: gcc-3
Best Hobby OS BeOS & friends
Best Desktop/WORKSTATION OS Linux
Best Server OS Linux
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year Gentoo
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year Mandrake 9
Best desktop environment Gnome (2.0)
Most profound application of the year OpenOffice.org
>…biggest disappointment: OS X (Why do I have to be locked into a GUI)…
Actually, you don’t! Enable the >console user, log in as them, and there’s no GUI in sight, unless you logout.
Best Hobby OS: Hmm, haven’t used any
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: Linux
Best Server OS: Linux
Greatest distribution surprise of the year: Gentoo
Greatest distribution dissapointment of the year: Gentoo 1.4 (because it hasn’t been released yet!)
Best desktop environment: KDE 3
Most profound application of the year: Quanta 3.0 (Quanta has just blown me away, it makes my life as a PHP programmer so much easier)
Favorite Hobby OS: SkyOS
Favorite Desktop OS: Debian Linux
Favorite Development OS: Debian Linux
Favorite Server OS: OpenBSD
Favorite window manager: WindowMaker
Surprise of the year: Xandros (somebody finally made Debian accessible to the masses)
Dissapointment of the year: The outcome of the Microsoft trial.
Favorite newly discovered application: Zope
Favorite newly discovered game: Frozen-Bubble
Favorite OSNews article: All of them I participated in.
I hope next year is a great as this one was. Thanks Eugenia.
One of the really interesting things about what people have posted is the large number of those who chose Red Hat 8 as the Greatest Surprise or the Biggest Disappointment. A lot of divided opinion on that.
Best Hobby OS: SkyOS
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: Windows XP
Best Server OS: FreeBSD
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year: Gentoo
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year: Lindows
Best desktop environment: Windows XP with Luna or Classic
Most profound application of the year: they all suck or aren’t original.
Best Hobby OS ….. Linux
Best Server OS ….. Linux
Best Desktop/Workstation OS ….. Xandros/Libranet
Greatest Distro Surprise ….. Xandros DEsktop 1.0
Greatest Distro Disappointment ….. Mandrake
Best Desktop Environment ….. KDE
Most Profound Application ….. Codeweaver’s Crossover Office
Best Hobby OS: We don’t need no steenking hobbies!
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: <insert your fave distro here>Linux
Best Server OS: <insert your fave distro here>Linux
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year: The prices Apple dares to charge for .x upgrades. Have these people no shame?
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year: The continued existence of Microsoft, Inc.
Best desktop environment: xfce!
Most profound application of the year: Kword – finally has the features I need most and exports to WordPerfect 8 well enough to let me do the final layout touches there. This one is going places, folks!
Eugenia you’re the one that made this site(and BeNews) enjoyable and informative to read everyday. Not enough people appreciate how much work you have done! You are just too dedicated when you have a commitment:-)
Thanks for the effort.
Once you get some rest, I’m sure you’ll be up to your ears in some endeavor again. I just hope I can find the fruits of your labor !
Keep in touch
Don
Best Hobby OS: SkyOS
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: WinXP/2k/NT
Best Server OS: FreeBSD
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year: OpenBSD
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year: Lindows
Best desktop environment: XP Media Edition
Most profound application of the year: VS.NET
Eugenia, thankyou for this site which is my favourite for OS related material. Your news and comments have been interesting and insightful. I hope you enjoy your new found freedom but I also hope that OSNews will continue on in the same spirit it has in the past. I find that not only is it you who makes OSNews but also the participants on the forums and the general community you have gathered to your site.
I can list quite a few apps that have really gathered my interest this year are Opera beta 7 ( a great browser others can learn from although Mozilla is a great development platform), Open Office (which allows for decent competition in the office suits that is cross platform), Cubase SX (which ties me into WinXP unfortunately but it is a great program and much better than Logic 5 which I swapped it for (after Apple’s buyout)), and of course Il2 (my fav entertainment piece of software).
I am really rooting for Open BeOS (aka Walter, a name I quite like) to get going strong on the desktop as BeOS is ideally the best OS for my needs which are audio and gaming. Hopefully with the initial release, many developers like Steinberg will release apps for it as I know they had a beta of Nuendo running rings around their Win2K version on BeOS 5. Then Mac OS and Windows can go the way of the Dodo as they deserve cause they are bloody archaic Operating Environments who think making the desktop pretty and bloated is innovation. I’m sorry but it ain’t. It is shite and just gets in the way of using the computer. Nothing has surpassed BeOS/Open Tracker in that regard which adheres to the “Keep It Simple Stupid” principle of life.
2003 is shaping up to be a great year for computing (and simming, go Il2 FB) and I hope MS and Apple are relegated to the scrap heap as they deserve.
Sorry for the Rant.
Piers
Best Hobby OS : BeOS
Best Desktop/Workstation OS : Win2k ( for windows specific devices
)
Best Server OS : OpenBSD
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year : Gentoo
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year : Lindows
Best desktop environment : BeOS/Tracker
Most profound application of the year : OOo
Best Hobby OS: OpenBeOS
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: Mac OS X
Best Server OS: FreeBSD
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year: redhat 8
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year: —
Best desktop environment: Aqua
Most profound application of the year: Phoenix
Best Hobby OS: Syllable
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: Win XP
Best Server OS: FreeBSD
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year: mandrake 9
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year: redhat8
Best desktop environment: XP, but hopefully soon Syllable
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Most profound application of the year: Codeweaver’s Crossover Office
Best Hobby OS SkyOS So much work done by mostly one person.
Best Desktop Linux, XP PRo
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year: Gentoo!
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year: AtheOS
Most Talked about OS: Open BeOS
Best Potential OS: B.E.O.S
Best From the Ground Up OS Open BeOS
Best desktop environment DANO even though it’s from last year!
Most Profound Product of the year MOZILLA
Most Profound Game: Exult , Unreal 2003
Best Hobby OS : OS/2 Warp 4
Best Server OS : OpenBSD
Worst OS in all area : Windows series
Best hobby OS – OpenBeOS (though not exactly a “hobby”)
Best Desktop OS – BeOS
Best Server OS – Solaris
Greatest Disappointment – Windows XP
Best environment – Be/Tracker or QNX Photon
Worst ” ” – Windows XP
Most Profound Application – Opera 6/7
Best Hobby OS : M$ DOS 😉
Best Desktop/Workstation OS : Linux
Best Server OS : dunno
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year : Slackware 7,
RedHat 8.
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year : SuSE 8
Best desktop environment : blackbox
Most profound application of the year : kstars
Best Hobby OS: BeOS (because it sure doesn’t have any apps to do work with)
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: Windows XP Pro (amazing how stable and usable a MS product can be)
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year: Jaguar
Best desktop environment: Windows running Litestep
Most profound application of the year: OpenOffice (amazing that a program that great could be free and open source)
Best Hobby OS: MS-DOS
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: FreeMiNT/N.AES (Atari)
Best Server OS: Linux
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year: WinXP (who knew windows could be this stable!?!)
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year: HP-UX (why use this outdated hunk-of-crap over Linux?)
Best desktop environment: jinnee (Atari again)
Most profound application of the year: GTA3
Best Hobby OS SkyOS
Best Desktop/Workstation OS BeOS
Best Server OS FreeBSD
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year OSX
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year AtheOS
Best desktop environment BeOS/Tracker
Most profound application of the year Mozilla
Best Hobby OS: SkyOS
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: Linux
Best Server OS: OpenBSD
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year: Tie Gentoo/Knoppix
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year: RH 8.0
Best desktop environment: KDE
Most profound application of the year: Evolution
Best Hobby OS: SkyOS (unless GNU/Linux can count as such too
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: Win2k
Best Server OS: GNU/Linux
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year: Gentoo
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year: Lindows
Best desktop environment: KDE
Most profound application of the year: Konqueror (the konq team really did a great work!)
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By mX (IP: —.eas.sinp.msu.ru) – Posted on 2002-11-28 12:37:51:
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year : Slackware 7,
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Slackware 7? Apparently, you don’t realise that 8.1 is the latest, and that 7 isn’t from this year?
Best Hobby OS: Cosmoe. Just for what he’s trying to do.
Best Desktop/Workstation OS: Win2K Pro
Best Server OS: Don’t know. I haven’t tried running a server.
Greatest OS/distribution surprise of the year: Lycoris. It works!
Greatest OS/distribution dissapointment of the year: WinXP Win2K was soooooo nice.
Best desktop environment: BeOS 4ever.
Most profound application of the year: Pheonix, plus any flie sharing that’s managed to stay open. Mozilla with out the bloat.