Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 17th Mar 2008 07:36 UTC
"Computer platform advocacy can bubble up in the strangest places. In a recent interview at a conference in Australia, Linux creator Linus Torvalds got the Macintosh community in an uproar when he described Mac OS X's file system as 'complete and utter crap, which is scary'. What did he mean? What is a 'file system' anyway, and why would we care why one is better than another? At first glance, it might seem that file systems are boring technical widgetry that would never impact our lives directly, but in fact, the humble file system has a huge influence on how we use and interact with computers."
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2006-11-24
Be lacked drivers... as anyone who has read the 'raging' driver requests/petitions at Benews will remember. At some point, it was given away for free, but what good is that if it does not start up? The good ole chicken-egg problem...
OT: I am still not sure what to put on a ~3 yo Dell laptop and downloaded the BeosMax ISO (couldn't burn it yet) - any chances this will run..?
Anyway, this was a nice round up of FSs....