Isen Kusima wrote:
My first OS is DOS 2.0. I don't really care about OS at that time, and just use it.
What, you never had a Commodore? :)
After Windows 3.x come out, I bought a 486DX2-66 pre-loaded with it. That's the time I'm more aware of OS. I read PC Magazine & Byte and decide to buy OS/2 Warp 4 in early 1995. I use it until october, then bought new computer pre-loaded with Windows 95. I dual boot the windows & OS/2.
Although I like OS/2 more than Windows95, I can't find enough resource to make me using it more and more.
Sad but true! OS/2 was killed by the fact that it could easily run Windows 3.x apps: so why develop for OS/2? That and the whole issue of Microsoft's behavior re. IBM. I ran OS/2 from 2.0 through Warp 4, and still have it on two machines. I boot it when I need to remind myself what a *real* desktop environment should be like (as opposed to that <flame-bait>tinker-toy KDE</flame-bait>). But then I reboot Linux because I start to feel sad...
In 1998 I saw an article about dual celeron project that lead me to BeOS. I bought BeOS & love it.... and ditch Windows. Unfortunately, Be Incorporated went bankrupt & can't support BeOS anymore. So, I must find replacement OS, because If I want to upgrade (say to Pentium4) in the future or using new hardware, I can't use BeOS anymore. Since it's not supported & no driver for it.
That sounds familiar, too. BeOS never even had the share that OS/2 had, but it was so new and exciting (and of course blindingly fast)! Also still on one of my machines.
Anyway, I am a proud user of SuSE 7.3 Proffesional.
You made the right choice. SuSE Linux rules, and will only get better. I started with Slackware in '95, and made Linux my primary operating system when I switched to SuSE in '98. I have never been happier with an operating system (not to mention the $thousands it has saved the company I work for). -- ======================================================= Glenn Holmer (gholmer@ameritech.net) ------------------------------------------------------- Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn. (In his house at R'lyeh dead Cthulhu waits dreaming.) ------------------------------------------------------- -H. P. Lovecraft, "The Call of Cthulhu", 1926 =======================================================