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I think need to categorize this by it’s usage: server, desktop and mobile. For server usage there is several kind such as Solaris, HP-UX, AIX, RedHat Enterprise, etc. And for desktop usage we have Windows, MacOS, Linux, etc. How about mobile usage? It almost the same with desktop, the different was just for mobile version.

For server usage I prefer to use Solaris, it is really awesome OS with so many features but not recommended for entry user (even vi on Solaris is really sucks, it’s unix based man not linux :p). Solaris came with so many advance features, the latest is ZFS which is a file system. ZFS have good compression, almost no limit file size and creation on virtual storage pool based called zpool. We can create ZFS on top traditional UFS, no need to changed disk layout. Snapshots are the best feature in ZFS for me, we can do backup maintaining without third party software and do it on the fastest way. We can create a snapshot from a pool and move it into backup storage, also we can do a daily backup using incremental snapshots that only use a few disk space because it only capture different things from last backup not capture the whole thing. Using ZFS Snapshots make us have a time machine that can rollback to any save point when problems come, this is really good for disaster recovery plan. Solaris have native hardware with Sun’s machines (of course it is caused Solaris is Sun’s product ), same thing for HP with HP-UX and IBM with AIX. Combination of these are one of the best (Sun servers are invading other vendors market share I think). Other OS I’d like to prefer is RedHat Enterprise Linux, no need to explain it Linux is easy to use and manage compared to unix. Other reason for choosing RedHat it because I think gnome still better than KDE .

Desktop OS, *sigh* this market share are definitely owned by Microsoft. Who doesn’t know Windows? It’s really easy to use and with so many applications build on top of it, even the security issue and to much consuming resources are still cannot solved by Microsoft as per my assumption (hackers wont do an attacks as intensively to other OS than Windows since it owned more than 90% market share cookie). But once I’m trying MacOS it changed everything. Powerful as unix but ease of use like Windows also the interface are more far better. MacOS are using customer approach to improve, is there any other OS enabling Web 2.0 technologies? Nope, trying to do it with many add on maybe….

Last one is for mobile usage, Windows Mobile is really fit for me. It’s really same thing with desktop version, what you can do in desktop version also available on mobile version. But since Apple realease iPhone, there is a new thought on everyone’s mind including me. It’s amazing, how can Apple make a great innovation on mobile technologies? I bet Steve Balmer was very shock when iPhone launched :p, even it not take Microsoft market share the innovation is really brilliant. How about Symbian? Geez… it’s nothing to compare with, but it use on Nokia’s phone and others also. That makes Symbian lead the market. Linux still struggling to prove them self on mobile.