Thursday, June 21, 2007

Intro [You can always skip this part!]

"I am a huge fan of Operating Systems" - I know it sounds odd. Most of my friends reacts like "Cool! ... but what is it?" or "OS? You mean Windows?". Well I am not going into that story, but I have used and seen a lot of OS's since 1992.

My first experience of OS was with DOS in 1992. I did not use it rather seen my uncle using it. Then my dad got his computer at office in 1994. I got introduced with Windows 3.1 ... which was a new experience for me. In 1997 my best friend got a computer with Windows 95, which actually let me know there are different windows. At last I got a PC of my own in mid 98, with windows 95 loaded. That was just the beginning. Later I have used Windows 98, 98se, ME. In year 2000, I got introduced with another OS, which was totally different - BeOS5. Then I got QNX. I learned that there are other things rather than windows. Rad Hat 6.0 was a break through. I never knew there was a substitute of Windows, but RH was a bit complicated. In 2004, I bought a new computer with better specification, I installed Fedora Core 3, and that seemed to be a lot better. In 2005, Ubuntu 5.04 was a complete breakthrough for me. I used to start using linux beside windows XP. Then Ubuntu 6.06 was enough to convince me I do not need windows anymore. Meanwhile I tried Fedora Core 5,6,7, Mandriva 2007 and openSuSe 10.1. All are good, specially for general users. But in this year Ubuntu Fiesty Fawn 7.04 let me use quit windows completely. I play games, I compose musics, I watch DVDs, I use MSN messenger, I transfer songs into iPod, I use bluetooth to transfer stuffs from my cellphone. Everything is nice - without crashes, scan disks and blue screens of panic. Windows Vista seemed to be a lot better than the previous versions, but it is most resource hunger OS in the universe. Finally, I always tried to use Mac OSX. But I don't have a mac. Just a little information ... I use a MacOSX transformation pack on windows, which made my windows look like MacOSX, including the command prompt.

As a Computer Science and Engineering student. I always wanted to do something with Operating Systems. I have no intention to develop an OS from scratch, which is useless unless I make a open source MacOSX substitute for x86. I rather chosen an important sector of OS which made OS's this much usability. Yes, that is Device Drivers.

P.S.: I have earned an 'A' on my OS course! :D

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