shayel's Profile

In my opinion, the best release is probably Raphsody DR1, released in September 1997. This was the first OS release from the recently merged Apple-NeXT, and was the first version of NEXTSTEP (aka NeXTStep aka OPENSTEP) in a Macintosh skin. While that system wasn't stable (some would claim that the first stable Mac OS X release was 10.2) or highly useful, it was the transition from the aging "Classic" Mac OS to a more modern platform. For while the old OS was highly respected, UI wise, it's internals were more suitable for the eighties, when one would pay $3000 for a computer that was less powerful than a 3 years old cell phone. Not that UNIX, with it's root in the 1970s is a modern OS: but it's much more scalable, and much more suitable to exercise the supercomputer we currently call "home computers". And besides, UNIX has much more hacker cred: I doubt any other OS would make me "switch" from my hand-built Linux throne, and become a drooling Mac-fanatic like the ones I used to laugh at only seven years ago (though I wonder what will happen if I'll travel back to 1995, and tell Mac users then that in less than a ten years time, every new Macintosh computer would come with a command line and a copy of Emacs).