Operating Systems

My cousin’s 17-year-old daughter visited us and got the opportunity to try out my old iMac G3. The experience was amusing for both of us, albeit for different reasons.

Running KDE’s Dolphin File Manager on Windows is weird, but possible.

It’s nice that they’re at least moving to LibreOffice, but it’s still disappointing that they’re sticking to Windows for now.

Apple is changing all versions of their different operating systems to be the number 26. This is what I think about it.

Yesterday, I came across an article on Engadget where the author pointed out a very odd discrepancy in Apple’s use of fonts.

I have mixed feelings about this. More competition might lead to better pricing, but it might also lead to a disjointed user experience.

I recently ran into an article over at Ars Technica that contains the history of the Windows Start menu complete with screenshots of each major release of Windows, including a few beta versions.

This is a post that will most certainly betray my age in that I fondly remember the release of Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard.

This is why the Windows 95 setup team didn’t just use the limited GUI options that were availble in MS-DOS for the setup application instead of three separate operating systems.

I am generally a huge fan of Apple’s interfaces, but this is one of their dumbest design decisions to date.

Have you ever wondered why the Windows 95 setup seems to consist of three different types of UI? As it turns out, that is due to the fact that setup actually runs on three different operating systems.

This is an excellent read for any of you operating system nerds out there. The author compares the architectures of both Windows NT and Unix.