Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Fri 4th Jun 2004 06:22 UTC
PalmSource ain't gonna make a birthday party for BeOS but it would only be fair if the rest of us, [ex-]users, remember the "media OS" as the innovative operating system of the late '90s, still used by some. Depending on how you count, it was early 1994 when the first BeOS version left the Be, Inc. offices and headed toward Be's "partners" and "developers". It was 1994 when the word started to spread around among geeks about this "new and exciting" OS and soon, external devs got access to it.
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I tell you, I truly believed in BeOS as the One True OS. I don't care how 'niche' it was, if Be was still updating it, I'd still be using it, and developing for it.
I discovered and first installed the BeOS when 5PE was released. It was my only workstation OS until about 6 months after Be went to Palm. It was quirky at times and the apps weren't all there, but it didn't matter - it was so pleasant to use something so much closer to perfection than anything I'd seen before.
I'm a fulltime GNOME user now, and while 2.6 is quite pretty and Nautilus has improved tremendously (yay spatial mode!), the "feel" just can't compete. BeOS was truly ahead of its time.
Eugenia, thanks for the article - it brought back a lot of good memories. Please continue to fire messages at the GNOME community on the mailing lists - most every time I have an issue with something, I check the archives and find you've already taken it up with the developers. If we can just get them to do a BeOS-style file type control panel...