Operating System Sucks-Rules-O-Meter

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	sucks	rules, rocks
AmigaOS	11	38
BeOS	69	254
FreeBSD	356	2748
Linux	128000	176100
MVS	37	160
Mac OS	931	585
Mac OS X	17000	13220
NetBSD	45	466
NetWare	59	78
OS/2	52	132
OS/400	9	16
OpenBSD	296	10961
Solaris	927	1159
Unix	10900	8869
VMS	119	14999
Windows	194000	43900

Updated Mon Mar 29 08:03:42 2010 GMT.

	About the Operating System Sucks-Rules-O-Meter This operating system quality and approval metric is based on a periodic AltaVista search for each of several operating systems, directly followed by "sucks", "rules", or "rocks". We search for all operating system names exactly as shown above, with the exceptions of Mac OS, Mac OS X, and VMS. For Mac OS, we add the search results for the incorrect but common spelling "MacOS". Because Mac OS X is sometimes abbreviated to simply "OS X", the Mac OS X search is just for "OS X" -- we have not found other instances of this term on the web, so we can use it without confusion. For VMS, we add the results for "OpenVMS". We do not search for any derogatory slang misspellings of any operating system name. Subscribe to the srom-announce mailing list to receive announcements about changes to this site. Sucks-Rules-O-Meter technology is used in this report for The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). (The views and conclusions contained in the document are those of the author and should not be interpreted as representing the official policies, either expressed or implied, of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency or the U.S. Government.) Robert P. Munafo has written a comparison of 1998 and 2000 data from this meter. Please read The Operating System Sucks-Rules-O-Meter FAQ before mailing us about this page. This meter is no longer available as a GIF file because of the Unisys patent issue. GIFs suck anyway. Use PNGs. Caution to Exuberant OS Advocates: Please don't risk your site's good standing with AltaVista just to improve your operating system's rating on this meter. When making "my OS rules, your OS sucks" statements on your site, please note this warning, which used to appear on AltaVista's "Adding a URL" page.
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