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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omeone made a comment that there are no virus for BeOS because of it's small market share. While true, I don't think that is the whole story. Imagine a group of Window virus writers sitting around, trying to design a BeOS virus. So they try to do the things that make Windows virus spread so fastm but they get all sorts of problems.
One) Unlike Outlook, you can't get code to execute just by openning a message.
Two) Unlike Outlook, you find most message readers will not excute HTML code.
Three) Unlike Outlook, Bemail does not just run code that is double-clicked, it asks it you want to save or run it first.
Four) There are so many diffirent web-browsers versions making a buffer overflow that will execute properly is very hard.
Five) None of the web-browsers have the same long standing bugs found in Mircosoft's version. The updates keep killing them.
Six) There are not alot of unneeded services running on the TCP/IP ports to take over. Windows seems to have a number of services running because Mircosoft find them useful to be available, not because the user needs them.
Seven) Most services available under BeOS are defaulted as OFF. Relates to #6 but is not the same.