MS Windows XP - Hardware support is one of the advantages of windows xp, along with games , security, wireless networking was also a big part in the Windows XP empire. You would not have to fiddle around with those pesky acess codes. Software availability like office and all of their products. Availability of community help , price on computer, plug and play which means it is easy to set up and guarenteed availablilty which means that you can almost guarentee there will be one of these on the shelf . It could do either 32 bit or 16 bit. Windows XP can hold up to 3.24Gb of RAM. It can read and write fat 32 files.
Windows Vista – is windows xp with a fresh new look and some new security stuff. Some advantages of windows vista is the improved graphical user interface and being able to search the net without the worry of needing to check up on internet security. Knowing the time across the world, being able to edit photos and stuff and also it has a total diffrent experience. 32 bit can hold up to 4 gb of ram and 64 bit can hold up to 8 gb of ram. A file system that windows vista can hold is the Windows NT file system. Windows vista also has a search option on the start menu.
Ubuntu Linux – One advantages is that it is “eye candy” it is an easy to install aplication, secure , easy to change options, Free, Simple networking, Mozilla firefox , it’s fast, and it updates every six months. The max amount of ram it can hold is 1.7 GB. It can support ZFS file systems. Also uses FAT file systems. It is also free.
BeOS
BeOS was an operating system for personal computers which began development by Be Inc. in 1991. It was first written to run on BeBox hardware. BeOS was optimized for digital media work and was written to take advantage of modern hardware facilities such as symmetric multiprocessing by utilizing modular I/O bandwidth, pervasive multithreading, preemptive multitasking and a custom 64-bit journaling file system known as BFS. The BeOS GUI was developed on the principles of clarity and a clean, uncluttered design. The API was written in C++ for ease of programming. It has POSIX compatibility and access to a command line interface through Bash, although internally it is not a Unix-derived operating system.
BeOS was positioned as a platform which could be used by a substantial population of desktop users and a competitor to Microsoft Windows and Linux. However, it was ultimately unable to achieve a significant market share and proved commercially unviable for Be Inc. The company was acquired by Palm Inc. and today BeOS is mainly used and developed by a small population of enthusiasts.
Be Inc. sued Microsoft claiming that Hitachi had been pressured to dissuade them from selling PCs loaded with BeOS, and that Compaq had been pressured not to market an Internet appliance in partnership with Be. BeOS also claimed that Microsoft acted to artificially depress Be Inc’s IPO. The case was eventually settled out of court with no admission of liability on Microsoft’s part.
MAC OS X (latest version)
Mac OS X is a line of computer operating systems developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc., and since 2002 has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems. Mac OS X is the successor to the original or “classic” Mac OS, which had been Apple’s primary operating system since 1984. Unlike its predecessors, Mac OS X is a Unix-based operating system, built on technologies developed at NeXT between the second half of the 1980s and Apple’s purchase of the company in early 1996. Version 10.5, while running on Intel processors, is certified UNIX 03.
