Linked by Thom Holwerda on Wed 5th May 2004 06:34 UTC
I am one of those remaining BeOS addicts. I love the BeOS' responsiveness, its short boot-up/shutdown times and its, well, overall feel. But no one can deny the fact: BeOS 5.0.x PE is getting old. Very old, with a kernel build-time of around May 2000.
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Is it a true multiuser OS? Or something like win98 user profiles? eg. to install something system wide do you need an admin password?
I tried PhOS Beta 5 a couple of months ago. The multiuser functionality added by PhOS is simply a login window that makes /boot/home being moved around so that different users can have different copies of it. The login process doesn't give any kind of new security. You will always have UID 0 (which is normally named root in unix and baron in BeOS) after you log in. You can also skip the login window by hitting ctrl-alt-del and pressing 'Restart Desktop'.
After trying PhOS I decided I liked PE 5.0.3 with BONE alot more. Hopefully the OBOS networking stack will be of equally or higher quality in not too long.
To the guy who complained about the title:
As far as I know the most accurate name of Dan0 is BeOS 5.1d0, which is a pretty good reason to spell its nickname the way I just did.