Linked by Eugenia Loli-Queru on Tue 24th Aug 2004 21:07 UTC
Haiku (OpenBeOS)'s third birthday was a few days ago. While some BeOS parts have been successfully re-implemented so far, these were mostly the 'trivial' parts: screensaver kit, printing kit etc. Read more for a mini-editorial.
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I know the media kit sucked, I do use BeOS everyday, almost exclusively, and I do dabble in audio production. Which I have to do on Windows.
But the *majority* of computer users out there are dopes. They don't care about an OpenGL rendered UI, as long as their UI looks somewhat "pretty". They want to be able to use the computer they bought their kids at Christmas time 00 for a few games, the net, email and opening the documents they get mailed by relatives. As long as the system doesn't get viruses, thats all the security they care about.
Most schools don't care what they're using, as long as it works on their old 1998 era Gateways and can run a typing tutor, and all that associated stuff. Linux can't run fast enough on that era of kit, Windows can but has expensive licences. Remember that schools in Ireland were on Apple ]['s and in the UK on BBC Model B's within the past 7 years or so. They don't need new features
There will always, always be a market for a fast, stable, simple to use OS. It might not be on the geeks desktops, as the ones with rootless X servers will be. It might not be on the media producers desktops, as the ones with pro audio and 32BPP support will be. It will, hopefully, be on the desktops of Joe User, after they get sick and tired of Windows problems and find Linux too hard to use; and Macintosh hardware too expensive.