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	Operating system advocacy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A further assumption often made by OS advocates is that most of the users of the majority OS only use it because they are familiar with it or they are locked in.
		Advocacy of the majority OS is most often in reaction to the sometimes over-zealous advocacy of the minority OS's.
		Advocacy is also one of the common pastimes of those who have a deep and abiding interest in the design, construction and usage of operating systems.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operating_system_advocacy (859 words)

	Mac OS
		Mac OS was the first commercially successful operating system which used a graphical user interface.
		Mac OS 7.6 (which debuted in 1996) was the first to be named Mac OS because of the appearance of Mac "clones," workalikes from other companies such as Power Computing and Motorola, and Apple wanted to make it clear that the operating system was its own intellectual property.
		Classic Mac OS The "classic" Mac OS is characterized by its total lack of a command line; it is a completely graphical operating system.
	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/m/ma/mac_os.html (1036 words)

	Operating system - Encyclopedia.WorldSearch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		It is also noteworthy that some people use "kernel" to mean the core piece of the OS that deals most directly with the hardware, and have a slightly broader definition of "Operating System".
		Apple's Mac OS X, a BSD variant, has replaced Apple's earlier (non-Unix) Mac OS in a small but dedicated market, becoming one of the most popular Unix systems in the process.
		Mac OS X: The Missing Manual ranks among the best books to have at your side as you explore the latest Macintosh operating system as an everyday user who wants to get some work done, have a bit of fun, and feel part of the Mac community.
	encyclopedia.worldsearch.com /operating_system.htm (1339 words)

	[comp.os.linux.advocacy] FAQ and Primer for COLA, Edition III
		Sometimes advocacy groups are viewed as a place where the bickering undesirables of other newsgroups are directed, in order to remove a disruption from another group on the same general subject.
		It is worth noting two facts here: this support is not available in any other OS from within the kernel, and it is available due to the efforts of amateurs around the world who have contributed to the development of the Linux kernel.
		Linux is the only OS that supports amateur radio from the kernel, allowing the Ham to leave the TNC in storage and packet away in style.
	www.opennet.ru /docs/FAQ/OS/Linux/faq-and-primer.html (16101 words)

	Limitations of OS advocacy today
		Anyone arguing against the forces of inertia has to present a pretty compelling case for someone to fight inertia. That means that the thing they are arguing for has to be substantially better.
		Infoworld column on why Linux is a good desktop OS that you should choose over Windows. At this point in the game, odds are that the reader of the article is already using Windows.
		But I would argue that at this point in the game, an alternative OS has to be more than good, it has to be much better in significant ways to justify switching to it.
	www.stardock.com /stardock/articles/article_osadvocacy.htm (288 words)

	Operating system - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In computing, an operating system (OS) is the system software responsible for the direct control and management of hardware and basic system operations.
		Thus an OS enables the communication between hardware and software.
		Apple's Mac OS X, a BSD variant derived from NeXTSTEP and FreeBSD, has replaced Apple's earlier (non-Unix) Mac OS in a small but dedicated market, in the process becoming the most popular proprietary Unix system.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Operating_system (1292 words)

	Linux.com - Linux User Group HOWTO: What does a LUG do?
		There is effective advocacy, and there is ineffective carping: As Linux users, we must be constantly vigilant to advocate Linux in such a way as to reflect positively on the product, its creators and developers, and our fellow users.
		New Linux users already in contact with a LUG are ahead of others whose interest in Linux has been piqued by a computer journalist, but who have no one to whom to turn for aid in their quest to install, run, and learn Linux.
		Advocacy can be mis-aimed; advocacy can go wrong and be counterproductive; advocacy can be simply inappropriate in the first place.
	www.linux.com /howtos/User-Group-HOWTO-4.shtml (3831 words)

	Linus Torvalds (Linus Torvalds) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He may be smart, and he freely admits that I'm not the only one slamming Mach as an OS.
		And also, in my opinion, it is just worthless trying to write a nice and polite article to an advocacy newsgroup.
		The whole _point_ of advocacy newsgroups is to have heated discussion.
	yarchive.net /comp/linux/linus.html (336 words)

	Strona Krzysztofa Garusa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A full memory protection system has a microkernel that is the ONLY part of the OS with access to multiple address spaces at one time (and that is only for mailing messages).
		Remember that Memory Protection is just a set of tools to help make the OS more stable -- assuming that programmers have already failed in their job of writing quality (relatively bug-free) Apps.
		MS programmers are the only ones can use all those undocumented (or poorly documented) behaviors (or they can patch their OS to adapt to their Apps) -- so they seem to be the only ones that can write really good Windows apps.
	kolos.math.uni.lodz.pl /~bajcik/article.cgi?group=pcoa&article=memory_protection (2329 words)

	OSNews.com
		The author was just trying to convey the different ideals surrounding each OS, and wasn't even trying to say that one was better than the other (just that they are different).
		Obviously both BSD and Linux need advocacy, that is, active support from their users.
		Advocacy doesn't mean bashing other operating systems, it means actively pointing out the merits of the OS of your choice while respecting the different choices other people have made.
	www.osnews.com /comment.php?news_id=7163&limit=no (9490 words)

	Linux-Advocacy Digest #963
		>Pre-built to run a specific OS, pre-installed with that specific OS, >pre-configured, and sold by a major retailer, preferably with all of the >basic applications they'll ever want to run, applications that are well >known by friends or family, and that are compatible with the >applications run by friends and family.
		a asciit 0 is NOT an O it is a zero with a hex value of 30.
		An ascii nil which is a hex value 0 (not O damn it) will terminate a string.
	www.mail-archive.com /linux-advocacy@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu/msg02585.html (4171 words)

	Linux-Advocacy Digest #29
		THe scenario is a > >> trojan, and any OS is vulnerable to them.
		THe scenario is a > > >> trojan, and any OS is vulnerable to them.
		That's hardware configured and nothing the OS can do will stop that.
	www.mail-archive.com /linux-advocacy@senator-bedfellow.mit.edu/msg04645.html (3090 words)

	OS/2 e-Zine! - OS/2 e-Zine! Lifetime Achievement Awards
		She might have solved your technical problem on IRC, you might have met her at Warpstock, you might have visited her web page, and you might have seen her moderating hand in some of the VOICE Speak-up interviews.
		But Judy is like a beating heart in the chest of the OS/2 advocacy and grassroots support.
		For this and his other advocacy work, we are eternally grateful.
	www.os2ezine.com /v4n1/p-lifetime.htm (667 words)

	Debunking RISC OS advocacy myths (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Not RISC OS: it still penny-pinches on RAM and considers hard drives to be a luxury item for permanent mass storage, not an integral part of the system.
		Even though the RISC OS version of vim isn't quite the same as the Linux version, the fact that Linux is faster on the same hardware is telling.
		The gap between it and the slowest RISC OS test (which happens to be the most normal circumstances for it) is quite significant.
	www.linbury.nildram.co.uk /myths1.html (974 words)

	Usenet Archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		This country is full of people who just use a computer for a tool, and who don't care to know about OS wars, much less to become involved in them.
		Macs are easy, the OS works VERY well, in fact, virtually flawlessly, and the software is first-class.
		It runs OS X, which means it talks very easily with both the Windoze herd and the Linux herd.
	www.all-usenet-archive.com /File.asp?service=56458 (11150 words)

	ipedia.com: Mac OS Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Mac OS, which stands for Mac intosh O perating S ystem, is Apple Computer 's operating system for Apple Macintosh computers.
		Mac OS was the first commercially successful operating system which used a...
		Whereas a file on DOS or Unix would simply be a sequence of bytes, requiring an application to know which bytes represented code and which were graphic or other data, Mac files had two different "forks".
	www.ipedia.com /mac_os.html (1120 words)

	Encyclopedia: Mad scientist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		World War I was primarily a European conflict with many facets: immense human sacrifice, stalemate trench warfare, and the use of new, devastating weapons - tanks, aircraft, machineguns, and poison gas.
		Dressing the wounded during a gas attack by Austin O. Spare, 1918.
		Fixed-wing aircraft is a term used to refer to what are more commonly known as aeroplanes in Commonwealth English (excluding Canada) or airplanes in North American English.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Mad-scientist (5739 words)

	Stardock’s OS/2 history
		With the OS plan in place, things with IBM moved well but slowly.
		I’m still a fanatic but not an OS fanatic. Now it’s in fanaticism in empowering users to have control over the machine.
		I miss the promise and dreams OS/2 represented but each day demonstrates how many new opportunities there are to “Change the world” in some small way. Just remember though, no matter what OS or machine or whatever, don’t get too attached to what is ultimately an inanimate object.
	www.stardock.com /stardock/articles/article_sdos2.html (2796 words)

	Harvey (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A memento from the heydays of OS/2 advocacy, after the IBM/Microsoft split and the shipment of OS/2 2.0 & 2.1.
		Problem with Mac users is that they can't tell the difference between an OS and a user interface...
		Is it because it sounds like Mac OS and you have no clue of the difference?........BUT IT'S NOT MAC OS....it's IBM's OS/2.
	geekt.org /geekt/comment.cgi?newsid=1136 (352 words)

	Microsoft invades the University of Washington CS department
		There were two labs full of Linux PCs which are used for teaching OS and kernel programming.
		According to the dept's chair Ed Lazowska, the recommended and default choice of OS in the dept is expected to be NT (note: He is a member of the Technical Advisory Board for Microsoft Research).
		> According to the dept's chair Ed Lazowska, the recommended and >default choice of OS in the dept is expected to be NT (note: He >is a member of the Technical Advisory Board for Microsoft >Research).
	ugweb.cs.ualberta.ca /~jmartin/ms_cs.html (1671 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Linux is a shareware version of an antiquated OS GB> from the 1970s...nothing more, nothing less.
		The Intel version is much simpler and new OS releases make the installation process even easier.
		There was no proof that the IRIX OS was the cause of that interoperability problem.
	www.crynwr.com /~nelson/titanic (2545 words)

	Operating system (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In computing, an operating system (OS) is the system software responsible for the direct control and management of hardware and basic system operations, as well as running application software such as word processing programs and web browsers.
		In general, the operating system is the first layer of software loaded into computer memory when it starts up.
		The microkernel approach is also very popular among research OSes.
	hallencyclopedia.com /Operating_system (1106 words)

	Macintosh Advocacy
		A nearly 100% Mac college, Mac OS Commerce, 8/9.
		"...the winning OS is the best OS when you consider all the things a computer can do today and what is required to get it to perform these duties."
		Mac OS worthy, but underhyped (Windows 98 worthless, but overhyped), NouveauGeek, CBS MarketWatch
	www.lowendmac.com /macinschool/promac.shtml (1474 words)

	Docs.Rage.Net: /faq/Team-OS2-FAQ (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		In my experience, and yours may differ, the majority of Teamers feel that OS/2 is good enough that we can promote it on it's own merits, rather than resort to rubbishing competing products, which can often give a bad impression, alienating people who might otherwise enjoy using OS/2.
		Being a fan of OS/2 does not mean that a Teamer has to avoid all other OSes.
		Windows 95 Microsoft's latest upgrade to Windows (qv) and replacement for DOS (qv) including some of the features and improved stability of Windows NT.(qv) Workplace OS A portable version of OS/2 that will run on several different types of computer, currently being designed by IBM.
	docs.rage.net /faq/Team-OS2-FAQ (5113 words)

	Open Directory - Computers: Software: Operating Systems: Linux: Advocacy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Alen Peacock - Discussion of the merits of Linux advocacy.
		Linux Advocacy - Joe Barr claims he is not an advocate, neither for Linux nor for OS/2 nor against Microsoft.
		Melbourne Linux - Dedicated to the Linux OS and Unix culture.
	dmoz.org /Computers/Software/Operating_Systems/Linux/Advocacy (614 words)

	The Kiyo OS/2 News letter
		Advocacy project number 2 is the OS/2 advocacy CD.
		We have been working with Pete Norloff of the os/2 bbs on this.
		If you would like to see a product on the demo computer, please email the ISV and remind them that we're demo'ing software for them.
	www.kiyoinc.com /nl5.html (1304 words)

	Computer Software > Operating_Systems_Software > > OS-2 > Advocacy
		Directory > Operating Systems Software > OS-2 > Advocacy
		Examples of big organizations and companies that use OS/2.
		In 2004 it will be held october 21-24 in Denver, Colorado.
	www.computersoftwarehelp.com /index.php/Operating_Systems_Software/OS-2/Advocacy/Advocacy.html (89 words)

	OS/2 eZine
		Anyone interested can subscribe by sending an email to "majordomo@eyup.org", with "subscribe os2-sendmail" in the first line of the message.
		Probably everyone has heard this by now, and it has generated a great deal of discussion in the ADVOCACY newsgroup, but the July edition of Australian Personal Computer magazine is distributing a full version of Warp 4 on their CD.
		Apparently, the only difference with the full store-bought version is that you can only install from CD, as it will not make the floppy disks.
	www.os2ezine.com /20000716/newsbeat.html (659 words)

	[KLUG Advocacy] No OS immune to DOS attacks... :-) Not even ALL POWERFUL SUPER LINUX! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
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