which operating system is best for networking ?

Question

best operating system

Answer 1

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1986774,00.asp

http://www.newsfactor.com/story.xhtml?story_id=100000028WT4

Loren Soth

Answer 2

UNIX
But for a smaller network and home office purpose use LINUX which is free and easy to configure. Get free Linux cd from the given website and enjoy safe and reliable networking

Answer 3

Unix

Unix operating systems are widely used in both servers and workstations. The Unix environment and the client-server program model were essential elements in the development of the Internet and the reshaping of computing as centered in networks rather than in individual computers. GNU/Linux, a Unix inspired operating system available for free and from commercial distributors, is gaining popularity as an alternative to proprietary operating systems like Microsoft Windows.

Both Unix and C were developed by AT&T and distributed to government and academic institutions, causing it to be ported to a wider variety of machine families than any other operating system. As a result, Unix became synonymous with "open systems."

Unix was designed to be portable, multi-tasking and multi-user in a time-sharing configuration. The Unix systems are characterized by various concepts: plain text files, command line interpreter, hierarchical file system, treating devices and certain types of inter-process communication as files, etc. In software engineering, Unix is mainly noted for its use of the C programming language and for the Unix philosophy.

The system is also known for the use of a large number of small programs that can be strung together to complete a task with a pipe, as opposed to using a single larger program that includes all of the same functionality. The result is more flexibility and improved development; since each program is small and dedicated to a single role, it is much easier to understand and debug.

Under Unix, the "operating system" consists of many of these utilities along with the master control program, the kernel. The kernel provides services to start and stop programs, handle the file system and other common "high level" tasks that most programs share, and, perhaps most importantly, schedules access to hardware to avoid conflicts if two programs attempt to simultaneously access the same resource or device. In order to mediate such access, the kernel was given special rights on the system and led to the division between user-space and kernel-space.

The microkernel tried to reverse the growing size of kernels and return to a system in which most tasks would be completed by smaller utilities. In an era when a "normal" computer consisted of a hard disk for storage and a printer for input/output, the Unix file model worked quite well as most I/O was "linear". However, modern systems include networking and other new devices. Describing a graphical user interface driven by mouse control in an "event driven" fashion didn't work well under the old model. Work on systems supporting these new devices in the 1980s led to facilities for non-blocking I/O and other forms of inter-process communications (IPC) than just pipes, as well as methods for moving functionality such as network protocols out of the kernel.

Answer 4

Mac OS X which is based on UNIX technology

Answer 5

unix but requires a bit more knowledge so if you are new then xp pro sp2.

Answer 6

UNIX