The following table compares general and technical information for a number of operating systems programs. Please see the individual products articles for further information.
| Operating System: | Windows XP | Windows 2000 | Mac OS X | Mac Classic | Fedora Core (Linux) | SUSE (Linux) | FreeBSD | OpenBSD | Solaris | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Creator | Microsoft | Microsoft | Apple | Apple | Fedora Project | SUSE LINUX | University of California | Theo de Raadt | Sun | ||||
| General | |||||||||||||
| Stable version | SP2 | SP4 | 10.3 (Panther) | 9.2 | 2 | 9.1 | 5.2.1 | 3.5 | 9 | ||||
| Cost | $184 (Home) $279 (Pro) |
? | $129 or bundled | No longer available | Free | Free | Free | Free | Free | ||||
| License | Proprietary | Proprietary | Proprietary | Proprietary | Open-source | Open-source | Open-source | Open-source | Proprietary | ||||
| Technical | |||||||||||||
| 16-bit file system | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ||||
| 32-bit file system | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||
| 64-bit file system | No | No | Yes | No | Yes | ? | ? | ? | ? | ||||
| Features | |||||||||||||
| Integral GUI | Luna | Classic | Aqua | Macintosh GUI | GNOME | KDE | No | ? | X Window System | ||||